Benny Golson – Horizon Ahead (2016) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Benny Golson is an American bebop/hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and arranger. He came to prominence with the big bands of Lionel Hampton and Dizzy Gillespie, more as a writer than a performer, before launching his solo career. All About Jazz’s Jack Bowers stated “At age eighty-seven, saxophonist Benny Golson is one of the last surviving links to the Golden Age of modern jazz”.

If John Coltrane came to personify a profound spiritual yearning, what has his boyhood friend Benny Golson signified? A personal brand of stately elegance, in everything from his appearance, with his dapper mustache out of classic Hollywood; to his playing, a flawless balance of elegant and earthy; his composing, with its meticulous craftsmanship yielding effortless melodies; and his onstage storytelling, which crosses from erudition into delightful eccentricity. All of those elements-even the mustache-are in play on Golson’s most recent album, Horizon Ahead, his HighNote label debut and his first new release since a 2009 outing with a relaunched Jazztet. A quartet date featuring the lived-in rhythm section of pianist Mike LeDonne, bassist Buster Williams and drummer Carl Allen, it matches choice standards (“Don’t Get Around Much Anymore” has rarely been so hummable) with Golson originals (the deceptively accessible “Jump Start”; “Domingo,” written for Lee Morgan Vol. 3), and ends with a curveball. Following an astute spoken introduction from Golson-just the sort of thing you’d hear in your local theater-Allen offers a highly listenable solo drum-kit piece. Neither blowing session nor conceptual work, Horizon Ahead is simply terrific.

Tracklist:

01 – Don’t Get Around Much Anymore
02 – Jump Start
03 – Horizon Ahead
04 – Mood Indigo
05 – Domingo
06 – Lulu’s Back in Town
07 – Night Shade
08 – Three Little Words
09 – Spoken Introduction to out of the Darkness, and into the Light
10 – Out of the Darkness, and into the Light

Produced by Benny Golson. Engineered by Dennis Wall.
Recorded on December 7, 2015 at The Samurai Hotel Recording Studio, Astoria, NY.

Musicians:
Benny Golson – tenor saxophone
Mike LeDonne – piano
Buster Williams – bass
Carl Allen – drums

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