An 80th birthday tribute to saxophonist, composer and arranger Benny Golson featuring tracks from the albums Groovin' With Golson, Meet the Jazztet*, Domingo, Gone With Golson, The Other Side of Benny Golson, Big City Sounds*, The Modern Touch, Gettin' With It, New York Scene, Turning Point, Another Git Together*, Take a Number from 1 to 10, Live, That's Funky, Free, Moanin'** and Birks' Works*** [* with the Jazztet; ** with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers; *** with Dizzy Gillespie] with Curtis Fuller, Art Farmer, Dizzy Gillespie, Lee Morgan, McCoy Tyner, Wynton Kelly, Nat Adderley, Tommy Flanagan, Kenny Dorham, J.J. Johnson, Bobby Timmons, Mulgrew Miller, Gigi Gryce, Cedar Walton, Jimmy Cleveland, Sahib Shihab, Monty Alexander, Ray Bryant, Benny Harris, Grachan Moncur III, Harold Mabern, Tom McIntosh, Ron Carter, Paul Chambers, Jymie Merrit, Ray Drummond, Max Roach, Art Blakey, Albert 'Tootie' Heath, Marvin 'Smitty' Smith, Philly Joe Jones, Jimmy Cobb, Charli Persip, Roy Haynes and Art Taylor All tracks feature Benny Golson (tenor saxophone), with: [1'14] Are You Real? (The Other Side of Benny Golson, Riverside 1958) Curtis Fuller- tb; Barry Harris- p; Jymie Merritt- b; Philly Joe Jones- d [6'49] Mad About the Boy (Free, Argo 1962) Tommy Flanagan- p; Ron Carter- b; Art Taylor- d [14'05] with the Jazztet- This Nearly Was Mine (Another Git Together, Mercury 1962) Art Farmer- tp; Grachan Moncur III- tb; Harold Mabern- p; Herbie Lewis- b; Roy McCurdy- d [20'30] with Dizzy Gillespie- Left Hand Corner (Birks' Works, Verve 1957) Gillespie- tp; Talib Daawud, Lee Morgan, Ermet Perry, Carl Warwick- tp; Al Grey, Melba Liston- tb; Rod Levitt- btb; Ernie Henry, Jimmy Powell- as; Billy Mitchell- ts; Billy Root- bars; Wynton Kelly- p; Paul West- b; Charli Persip- d [22'49] Domingo (Domingo, Dreyfus 1991) Curtis Fuller- tb; Kevin Hays- p; James Genus- b; Tony Reedus- d [30'39] The Touch (Take a Number from 1 to 10, Argo 1960) Nick Travis, Bernie Glow- tp; Willie Ruff- Frh; Hal McKusick- ts; Sol Schlinger- bars; Tommy Williams- b; Albert 'Tootie' Heath- d [35'55] Autumn Leaves (Gone With Golson, New Jazz 1959) Curtis Fuller- tb; Ray Bryant- p; Tom Bryant- b; Al Harewood- d [42'42] Venetian Breeze (The Modern Touch, Riverside 1957) Kenny Dorham- tp; J.J. Johnson- tb; Wynton Kelly- p; Paul Chambers- b; Max Roach- d [48'20] Blues March (That's Funky, Arkadia Jazz 2000) Nat Adderley- tp; Monty Alexander- p; Ray Drummond- b; Marvin 'Smitty' Smith- d [56'53] I Didn't Know What Time It Was (Groovin' With Golson, New Jazz 1959) Curtis Fuller- tb; Ray Bryant- p; Paul Chambers- b; Art Blakey- d [62'16] with the Jazztet- Five Spot After (Dark Big City Sounds, Argo 1960) Art Farmer- tp; Tom McIntosh- tb; Cedar Walton- p; Tommy Williams- b; Albert 'Tootie' Heath- d [65'33] with Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers- Along Came Betty (Moanin', Blue Note 1958) Lee Morgan- tp; Bobby Timmons- p; Jymie Merritt- b; Blakey- d [71'41] Just By Myself (New York Scene, Contemporary 1957) Art Farmer- tp; Gigi Gryce- as; Sahib Shihab- bars; Julius Watkins- Frh; Jimmy Cleveland- tb; Wynton Kelly- p; Paul Chambers- b; Charli Persip- d [75'48] Jam the Avenue (Live, Dreyfus 1989) Mulgrew Miller- p; Peter Washington- b; Tony Reedus- d [86'59] with the Jazztet- Easy Living (Meet the Jazztet, Argo 1960) Art Farmer- tp; Curtis Fuller- tb; McCoy Tyner- p; Addison Farmer- b; Lex Humphries- d [90'32] The Masquerade is Over (Turning Point, Mercury 1962) Wynton Kelly- p; Paul Chambers- b; Jimmy Cobb- d [95'09] Tippin' on Thru (Gettin' With It, New Jazz 1959) Curtis Fuller- tb; Tommy Flanagan- p; Doug Watkins- b; Art Taylor- d [101'49] This podcast is made possible with your PayPal contributions. Please use the link below to contribute, or visit illasounds.podomatic.com and look for the Paypal button in the right hand column. Thank you.

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