Benny Golson
Benny Golson is an NEA Jazz Master, composer, arranger, and saxophonist. After helping Art Blakey revamp his regime with the Jazz Messengers, he co-founded Jazztet with trumpeter Art Farmer. He has composed not only jazz standards, including Killer Joe and Along Came Betty, but also music for films and television, including" It Takes a Thief "and" M*A*S*H." Jim Merodhas recorded a veritable "who's who" of jazz greats under his BluePort Jazz label. He is a Professor of Literature and...See more
Benny Golson is an NEA Jazz Master, composer, arranger, and saxophonist. After helping Art Blakey revamp his regime with the Jazz Messengers, he co-founded Jazztet with trumpeter Art Farmer. He has composed not only jazz standards, including Killer Joe and Along Came Betty, but also music for films and television, including" It Takes a Thief "and" M*A*S*H." Jim Merodhas recorded a veritable "who's who" of jazz greats under his BluePort Jazz label. He is a Professor of Literature and Humanitiesat Soka University, who has also taught at Cornell, Brown, Brandeis, Stanford, and UCLA. He isthe author of"The Political Responsibility of the Critic"andthe editor of "Jazz as a Cultural Archive, " a special issue of the journal "boundary 2."" See less
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