Benny Golson - Complete 1957-1958 Quintet and Sextet Sessions (2011)
Artist: Benny Golson
Title: Complete 1957-1958 Quintet and Sextet Sessions
Year Of Release: 2011
Label: Fresh Sound Records
Genre: Jazz
Quality: 320 kbps | FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 02:38:08
Total Size: 365 mb | 910 mb
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:Title: Complete 1957-1958 Quintet and Sextet Sessions
Year Of Release: 2011
Label: Fresh Sound Records
Genre: Jazz
Quality: 320 kbps | FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 02:38:08
Total Size: 365 mb | 910 mb
WebSite: Album Preview
CD1
1. Benny Golson - Whisper Not
2. Benny Golson - Just By Myself
3. Benny Golson - Capri
4. Benny Golson - Step Lightly
5. Benny Golson - Something in B Flat
6. Benny Golson - Blues It
7. Benny Golson - You're Mine
8. Benny Golson - You're Mine
9. Benny Golson - Hymn to the Orient
10. Benny Golson - Blues on Down
11. Benny Golson - Namely You
12. Benny Golson - Reunion
13. Benny Golson - Venetian Breeze
CD2
1. Benny Golson - Out of the Past
2. Benny Golson - Strut Time
3. Benny Golson - Jubilation
4. Benny Golson - Are You Real_
5. Benny Golson - Cry a Blue Tear
6. Benny Golson - Symptoms
7. Benny Golson - This Night
8. Benny Golson - Stablemates
9. Benny Golson - Thursday's Theme
10. Benny Golson - You're Not the Kind
11. Benny Golson - Blues on My Mind
12. Benny Golson - Afternoon in Paris
13. Benny Golson - Calgary
Benny Golson was just 17 when he fell under the spell of composer/arranger Tadd Damerons writing. Tadds music really ignited the spark for me, he said. After hearing things like Our Delight and Lady Bird, I had more of a definite goal. I wanted to do more than play tenor sax. I wanted to write.
By 28 he was playing and writing for the Dizzy Gillespie band. Most arrangers in those days had an adequate facility on one instrument or another, but those who excelled as writers and instrumentalists were very few. Benny was one of them. Since then, his skills as a writer have been so acclaimed that sometimes critics forget that he was also a very swinging tenor man, as these 1957-1958 recordings, his first as a leader, demonstrate: a fusion of thinking and blowing that represents modern jazz at its skillful, provocative, imaginative best.
By 28 he was playing and writing for the Dizzy Gillespie band. Most arrangers in those days had an adequate facility on one instrument or another, but those who excelled as writers and instrumentalists were very few. Benny was one of them. Since then, his skills as a writer have been so acclaimed that sometimes critics forget that he was also a very swinging tenor man, as these 1957-1958 recordings, his first as a leader, demonstrate: a fusion of thinking and blowing that represents modern jazz at its skillful, provocative, imaginative best.
