Gone With Golson (Remastered 2025) Benny Golson

• 1 Staccato Swing (Remastered 2025) 04:49
• 2 Autumn Leaves (Remastered 2025) 06:48
• 3 Soul Me (Remastered 2025) 06:37
• 4 Blues After Dark (Remastered 2025) 08:38
• 5 Jam For Bobbie (Remastered 2025) 09:24
• Total Runtime 36:16

Info for Gone With Golson (Remastered 2025)

"Gone with Golson" was originally released in 1959 and is saxophonist Benny Golson's fifth album. A great example of the hard-bop genre, the album includes four Golson compositions, plus "Staccato Swing" by Ray Bryant, who plays on the album, and the jazz standard "Autumn Leaves."

This is a must for any jazz library!

Philadelphia is renowned for its under-appreciated jazz history. Musicians who hailed from the city or developed their talent there are among the luminaries in this field. John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, Shirley Scott, McCoy Tyner, Lee Morgan, Christian McBride and a host of others credit living there in the progression of their musical talent. Perhaps, the greatest Philadelphia jazz artist is tenor saxophonist, Benny Golson. He is celebrated for the jazztet with Art Farmer and as an influential composer of standards like “I Remember Clifford”, “Blues March”, “Stablemates”, “Killer Joe”, “Along Came Betty” and “Whisper Not”. Golson wrote for movies and television, including M*A*S*H, Mannix, Mission Impossible and Room 222. His legacy is a major influence on the hard bop movement.

Benny Golson, tenor saxophone
Curtis Fuller, trombone
Ray Bryant, piano
Tommy Bryant, bass
Al Harewood, drums

Recorded June 20. - 30., 1959 at Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey
Produced by Esmond Edwards

Digitally remastered

Benny Golson
is a talented composer/arranger whose tenor playing has continued to evolve with time. After attending Howard University (1947-1950) he worked in Philadelphia with Bull Moose Jackson's R&B band (1951) at a time when it included one of his writing influences, Tadd Dameron on piano. Golson played with Dameron for a period in 1953, followed by stints with Lionel Hampton (1953-1954), and Johnny Hodges and Earl Bostic (1954-1956). He came to prominence while with Dizzy Gillespie's globetrotting big band (1956-1958), as much for his writing as for his tenor playing (the latter was most influenced by Don Byas and Lucky Thompson). Golson wrote such standards as "I Remember Clifford" (for the late Clifford Brown), "Killer Joe," "Stablemates," "Whisper Not," "Along Came Betty," and "Blues March" during 1956-1960. His stay with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers (1958-1959) was significant, and during 1959-1962 he co-led the Jazztet with Art Farmer. From that point on Golson gradually drifted away from jazz and concentrated more on working in the studios and with orchestras including spending a couple of years in Europe (1964-1966). When Golson returned to active playing in 1977, his tone had hardened and sounded much closer to Archie Shepp than to Don Byas. Other than an unfortunate commercial effort for Columbia in 1977, Golson has recorded consistently rewarding albums (many for Japanese labels) since that time including a reunion with Art Farmer and Curtis Fuller in a new Jazztet. Through the years he has recorded as a leader for Contemporary, Riverside, United Artists, New Jazz, Argo, Mercury, and Dreyfus among others. Returning once again to the spirit of the original Jazztet, Golson released New Time, New 'Tet on Concord Records in 2009.

This album contains no booklet.