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Benny Golson
Composer
Born January 25, 1929Died September 21, 2024 (95 years)
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. Golson is known for co-founding and co-leading The Jazztet with trumpeter Art Farmer in 1959. From the late 1960s through the 1970s Golson was in demand as an arranger for film and television and thus was less active as a performer, but he and Farmer reformed the Jazztet in 1982.
Filmography
| 2021 | Samadhi Road · as Benny Golson |
| 2021 | Buster Williams Bass to Infinity · as Himself |
| 2018 | It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story · as Self |
| 2018 | Harlem to Hollywood · as Self |
| 2016 | Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary · as Self - Musician |
| 2014 | Brownie Speaks · as Self |
| 2012 | CBS Saturday Morning (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2011 | |
| 2006 | Legends of Jazz con Ramsey Lewis Volume 3 · as Self - Tenors |
| 2006 | Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers: Live in '58 · as Self - Musician |
| 2006 | Legends of Jazz (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2004 | The Terminal · as Benny Golson |
| 2003 | imagine... (TV Series) · as Self - Musician |
| 1994 | A Great Day in Harlem · as Self |
| 1991 | Charlie Rose (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1958 | Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts (TV Series) · as Self - Performer |
| 1956 | The Steve Allen Show (TV Series) · as Self - Jazztet Member |