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One of the greatest artists our country has is Benny Golson. He is not only a great musician, but an original and fabulous composer. He is inventive and creative and his work is loved the world over. Benny is a rare, creative genius. All I would like to say is THREE CHEERS for Benny Golson!Tony BennettComposer supreme, tenor man supreme, jazz man supreme, good guy supreme: that's BENNY GOLSON!Sonny RollinsBorn during thede factoinaugural era of jazz, saxophonist Benny Golson learned his instrument and the vocabulary of jazz alongside John Coltrane while Golson was still in high school in Philadelphia. Quickly establishing himself as an iconic fixture on the jazz landscape, Golson performed with dozens of jazz greats, from Sonny Rollins, Coleman Hawkins, and Jimmy Heath to Dizzy Gillespie, Freddie Hubbard, and many others. An acclaimed composer, Golson also wrote music for Hollywood films and television and composed such memorable jazz standards as Stablemates, Killer Joe, and Whisper N

Table of Contents
Preface, by Jim Merod

Introduction

Part I John Coltrane
Chapter 1 One of a Kind: John Coltrane
Chapter 2 John and I Meet Diz and Bird
Chapter 3 John Becomes a Dynamo

Part II The ’Hood and Youthful Reckonings
Chapter 4 Uncle Robert and the Man
Chapter 5 Two Heroes and a Night at Minton’s
Chapter 6 Early Tragedies and Victories
Chapter 7 Welfare Days, Hard Times

Part III Great People
Chapter 8 No One Else: Bobbie Hurd
Chapter 9 Moose and Bostic
Chapter 10 Art Blakey’s Neophytes and Tadd Dameron’s Luck
Chapter 11 Further Adventures with Tadd and an Evening with Louis Armstrong
Chapter 12 The Duel: Clifford Brown and Fats Navarro
Chapter 13 Wonder and Beauty: Betty Carter and Art Farmer
Chapter 14 Genius Squared: Jimmy and Percy Heath
Chapter 15 Unrivaled Aces: Sarah Vaughan and Bill Evans
Chapter 16 Four "Brothers": Mulgrew Miller, Woody Herman, Henry Brant, and George Russell

Part IV Hollywood
Chapter 17 Starting Over
Chapter 18 Gettin’ My Mojo Workin’
Chapter 19 M*A*S*H
Chapter 20 Movie Stars Like Jazz, Too

Part V Amazing Friendships
Chapter 21 Quincy Jones
Chapter 22 Sweets and Diz
Chapter 23 Philly Joe Jones
Chapter 24 Monk, Max, and Dinah
Chapter 25 Curtis Fuller and The Jazztet

Part VI Music and Writing
Chapter 26 Writing
Chapter 27 Lessons
Chapter 28 "Stablemates": My First Recorded Song
Chapter 29 "Along Came Betty"
Chapter 30 "I Remember Clifford"
Chapter 31 The Ballad and "Weight"

Part VII Icons
Chapter 32 Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks
Chapter 33 Duke and Strayhorn
Chapter 34 Coleman Hawkins
Chapter 35 Art Blakey and Thelonious Monk
Chapter 36 Blakey and The Jazz Messengers
Chapter 37 Kenny Dorham and Lee Morgan
Chapter 38 Sonny Rollins
Chapter 39 Great Performances: Oscar Pettiford, Ron Carter, Billy Higgins, Billy Taylor, and Walter Davis, Jr.
Chapter 40 Charles Mingus, Benny Goodman, Gigi Gryce, and Horace Silver
Chapter 41 Peggy Lee and Diana Ross
Chapter 42 Milt "Bags" Jackson, Larry Young, Joe Farrell, and Tony Williams
Chapter 43 Wynton Kelly and Chick Corea
Chapter 44 Miles Davis and Geoffrey Keezer
Chapter 45 Mickey Rooney, Redd Foxx, Jersey Joe Walcott, and Muhammad Ali

Part VIII Verses and a Coda
Chapter 46 Notes on Starting Over
Chapter 47 The Blues
Chapter 48 Brielle

Coda: A New Way of Life

Acknowledgments
Index

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      Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.
      Publication Date: 10/06/2016
      ISBN13: 9781439913338, 978-1439913338
      ISBN10: 1439913331
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      One of the greatest artists our country has is Benny Golson. He is not only a great musician, but an original and fabulous composer. He is inventive and creative and his work is loved the world over. Benny is a rare, creative genius. All I would like to say is THREE CHEERS for Benny Golson!Tony BennettComposer supreme, tenor man supreme, jazz man supreme, good guy supreme: that's BENNY GOLSON!Sonny RollinsBorn during thede factoinaugural era of jazz, saxophonist Benny Golson learned his instrument and the vocabulary of jazz alongside John Coltrane while Golson was still in high school in Philadelphia. Quickly establishing himself as an iconic fixture on the jazz landscape, Golson performed with dozens of jazz greats, from Sonny Rollins, Coleman Hawkins, and Jimmy Heath to Dizzy Gillespie, Freddie Hubbard, and many others. An acclaimed composer, Golson also wrote music for Hollywood films and television and composed such memorable jazz standards as Stablemates, Killer Joe, and Whisper N

      Table of Contents
      Preface, by Jim Merod

      Introduction

      Part I John Coltrane
      Chapter 1 One of a Kind: John Coltrane
      Chapter 2 John and I Meet Diz and Bird
      Chapter 3 John Becomes a Dynamo

      Part II The ’Hood and Youthful Reckonings
      Chapter 4 Uncle Robert and the Man
      Chapter 5 Two Heroes and a Night at Minton’s
      Chapter 6 Early Tragedies and Victories
      Chapter 7 Welfare Days, Hard Times

      Part III Great People
      Chapter 8 No One Else: Bobbie Hurd
      Chapter 9 Moose and Bostic
      Chapter 10 Art Blakey’s Neophytes and Tadd Dameron’s Luck
      Chapter 11 Further Adventures with Tadd and an Evening with Louis Armstrong
      Chapter 12 The Duel: Clifford Brown and Fats Navarro
      Chapter 13 Wonder and Beauty: Betty Carter and Art Farmer
      Chapter 14 Genius Squared: Jimmy and Percy Heath
      Chapter 15 Unrivaled Aces: Sarah Vaughan and Bill Evans
      Chapter 16 Four "Brothers": Mulgrew Miller, Woody Herman, Henry Brant, and George Russell

      Part IV Hollywood
      Chapter 17 Starting Over
      Chapter 18 Gettin’ My Mojo Workin’
      Chapter 19 M*A*S*H
      Chapter 20 Movie Stars Like Jazz, Too

      Part V Amazing Friendships
      Chapter 21 Quincy Jones
      Chapter 22 Sweets and Diz
      Chapter 23 Philly Joe Jones
      Chapter 24 Monk, Max, and Dinah
      Chapter 25 Curtis Fuller and The Jazztet

      Part VI Music and Writing
      Chapter 26 Writing
      Chapter 27 Lessons
      Chapter 28 "Stablemates": My First Recorded Song
      Chapter 29 "Along Came Betty"
      Chapter 30 "I Remember Clifford"
      Chapter 31 The Ballad and "Weight"

      Part VII Icons
      Chapter 32 Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks
      Chapter 33 Duke and Strayhorn
      Chapter 34 Coleman Hawkins
      Chapter 35 Art Blakey and Thelonious Monk
      Chapter 36 Blakey and The Jazz Messengers
      Chapter 37 Kenny Dorham and Lee Morgan
      Chapter 38 Sonny Rollins
      Chapter 39 Great Performances: Oscar Pettiford, Ron Carter, Billy Higgins, Billy Taylor, and Walter Davis, Jr.
      Chapter 40 Charles Mingus, Benny Goodman, Gigi Gryce, and Horace Silver
      Chapter 41 Peggy Lee and Diana Ross
      Chapter 42 Milt "Bags" Jackson, Larry Young, Joe Farrell, and Tony Williams
      Chapter 43 Wynton Kelly and Chick Corea
      Chapter 44 Miles Davis and Geoffrey Keezer
      Chapter 45 Mickey Rooney, Redd Foxx, Jersey Joe Walcott, and Muhammad Ali

      Part VIII Verses and a Coda
      Chapter 46 Notes on Starting Over
      Chapter 47 The Blues
      Chapter 48 Brielle

      Coda: A New Way of Life

      Acknowledgments
      Index

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