last Thursday evening, I heard Benny Golson and The Juilliard Jazz Orchestra perform all his old tunes:

• Blues March – listen on Amazon
• Stablemates – listen on Amazon
• I Remember Clifford – listen on Amazon
• Whisper Not – listen on Amazon
• Five Spot After Dark
• Killer Joe – listen on Amazon
• Along Came Betty – listen on Amazon

and a World premiere of his new composition, ABOVE AND BEYOND with Victor Goines playing the solo parts.
The conductor and composer, Benny Golson, is 77 years old and he is still very good, healthy, full of humor and life! His orchestral composition is very enjoyable, exciting and full of suprises in the music. The twist and turns in the compositions were very good.
The Juilliard Jazz student musicians were swinging with great rythym and pace. Some great solos by the trumpets, guiter, piano, flugelhorn and trumbones.
I sat on the third row and saw everything so clearly. Simply amazing and a free concert.
I loved the performance, tap my feet, swing my head and made me so happy …

More

• BennyGolson.com
• “The Musical Eloquence Of Benny Golson,” by Loren Schoenberg, The Julliard Journal Online, February 2006
• “Setting Standards: Jazz Legend Benny Golson Sees His Legacy Grow During His Twilight Years,” by C. Andrew Hovan, all about jazz, January 23, 2003
• “A Conversation with the Great Benny Golson,” by Paula Edelstein, all about jazz, December 2000
• “Juilliard Forms its First Jazz Orchestra,” stereophile, June 3, 2001
• “Golson and Trane Dissed in Philly (circa 1944),” by Bob Jacobson, all about jazz, February 1999
• The Juilliard School, Calendar of Events
• Juilliard Jazz Orchestra, upcoming free events

The Juilliard School, Alice Tully Hall, northwest corner of Broadway and West 65th Street, 212-769-7406
Post by Peter