BENNY GOLSON.Byline: Fred Shuster Music Writer When tenor saxophonist Noun 1. tenor saxophonist - a musician who plays the tenor saxophone tenorist saxist, saxophonist - a musician who plays the saxophone Benny Golson Benny Golson (born January 25, 1929) is an American bebop/hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and arranger. While in high school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Golson played with several other promising young musicians, including John Coltrane, Red Garland, Jimmy steps on stage at the Hollywood Bowl The Hollywood Bowl is a modern amphitheatre at 2301 North Highland Avenue in Hollywood, California, USA, that is used primarily for music performances. The "bowl" in this context is the natural cavity in the earth into which the amphitheater is built, rather than the shape of the this Saturday, even the least jazz-savvy person in the joint will recognize at least one of his tunes. That's because Golson is among the most-recorded jazz composers around. His songs -- standards like ``Killer Joe,'' ``I Remember Clifford,'' ``Whisper Not'' and ``Blues March'' -- have been covered by everyone from John Coltrane “Coltrane” redirects here. For other uses, see Coltrane (disambiguation). John William Coltrane (September 23 1926 – July 17 1967), nicknamed Trane, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. to Lou Rawls Louis Allen Rawls (December 1, 1933 – January 6, 2006) was a Chicago-born American soul music, jazz, and blues singer. Known for his smooth vocal style, Frank Sinatra once said that Rawls had "the classiest singing and silkiest chops in the singing game. , Itzhak Perlman Itzhak Perlman (born August 31, 1945) is an Israeli-American violinist, conductor, and pedagogue. He is one of the most distinguished violinists of the late 20th century. Biography to Diana Ross. The guy even scored hit TV series and films, including ``M*A*S*H'' and ``Mission: Impossible,'' and longtime fan Steven Spielberg not only used Golson's music in ``The Terminal,'' but devised a small speaking part for the prodigious musician in a scene with Tom Hanks. ``Hey, if I could figure out how to write hits, I'd write a whole bunch more of them,'' the good-natured Golson said from his Los Angeles home. ``I never had any idea what was going to last. Nobody does. If I did, a lot more of my tunes would be standards.'' One of the most highly regarded composers and tenor players in jazz, the Philadelphia-born Golson cut his teeth with names like Benny Goodman, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton and Earl Bostic. He was an integral part of Art Blakey's popular late-'50s edition of the Jazz Messengers, and co-leader of the influential Jazztet with Art Farmer at the dawn of the 1960s. He's penned more than 300 numbers and recorded over 30 albums as a leader and countless others as a sideman side·man n. A member of a jazz band who is not the leader or a featured soloist. . Recalling his influential years with Blakey, with whom he cut what's considered the best album the Messengers ever made, ``Moanin','' Golson muses that the late band leader ``was the best drummer I ever played with in my life. The guy couldn't not swing -- it didn't matter if you were sick, tired, full, empty, sad or angry -- those drums swung you to death.'' Like many other L.A. jazz players, Golson -- who just completed a commission for the Juilliard School of Music's 100th anniversary -- bemoans the state of live music in the nation's second-largest metropolis. ``Life as a jazz musician here is disappointing,'' Golson, 77, said. ``New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of is and always has been the mecca. People there love jazz, and musicians come from all over the world to be part of that. There's a plethora of talent there that's unending. It's always been that way.'' Fred Shuster, (818) 713-3676 fred.shuster(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: no caption (Benny Golson) |
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