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| Trios - Beyond The Blue Horizon / Bad Benson / Body Talk (3CD) |
| George Benson |
| első megjelenés éve: 2004 |
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3 x CD |
Kérjen
árajánlatot! |
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| 1. CD tartalma: |
| 1. | So What
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| 2. | The Gentle Rain
From the Gentle Rain
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| 3. | All Clear
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| 4. | Ode to a Kudu
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| 5. | Somewhere in the East
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| 6. | All Clear [*]
Alternate Take
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| 7. | Ode to a Kudu [*]
Alternate Take
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| 8. | Somewhere in the East [*]
Alternate Take
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| 2. CD tartalma: |
| 1. | Take Five
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| 2. | Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
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| 3. | My Latin Brother
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| 4. | No Sooner Said Than Done
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| 5. | Full Compass
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| 6. | The Changing World
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| 7. | Take the "A" Train
New Mix
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| 8. | Serbian Blue
New Mix
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| 9. | From Now On
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| 3. CD tartalma: |
| 1. | Dance
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| 2. | When Love Has Grown
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| 3. | Plum
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| 4. | Body Talk
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| 5. | Top of the World
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| 6. | Body Talk
New Mix -- Alternate Take
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Jazz
George Benson - Guitar
Alan Rubin - Trumpet
Alan Shulman - Cello
Albert Regni - Clarinet, Flute, Horn (English)
Brooks Tillotson - French Horn
Charles McCracken - Cello
Creed Taylor - Producer
Darren Salmieri - A&R
Dick Griffin - Trombone
Didier C. Deutsch - Liner Notes, Reissue Producer
Don Sebesky - Arranger, Conductor
Earl Klugh - Guitar
Frank Foster - Sax (Tenor)
Frank Levy - Cello
Garnett Brown - Trombone
Gary King - Bass
George Marge - Clarinet, Flute, Horn (English)
Gerald Chamberlain - Trombone
Harold Mabern - Piano (Electric)
Howard Fritzson - Reissue Art Director
Jack DeJohnette - Drums
Jesse Levy - Cello
Jim Buffington - French Horn
Joe Shepley - Trumpet
John Frosk - Trumpet
John Gatchell - Sax (Tenor)
Jon Faddis - Sax (Tenor)
Kenny Barron - Piano
Kristin Kozusko - A&R
Margaret Ross - Harp
Mark Wilder - Remastering
Mobutu - Percussion
Patti Matheny - A&R
Paul Faulise - Trombone (Bass)
Paul Tobias - Cello
Pee Wee Ellis - Arranger, Conductor
Phil Bodner - Clarinet, Flute, Horn (English)
Phil Upchurch - Bass (Electric), Guitar, Percussion
Raymond Beckenstein - Clarinet, Flute, Horn (English)
Rudy Van Gelder - Engineer
Seth Rothstein - Project Director
Seymour Barab - Cello
Stacey Boyle - Tape Research
Steve Gadd - Drums
Steven Berkowitz - A&R
Todd Whitelock - Mixing
Warren Covington - Trombone
Waymon Reed - Sax (Tenor)
Wayne Andre - Trombone
George Benson
Active Decades: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: Mar 22, 1943 in Pittsburgh, PA
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Fusion, Hard Bop, Jazz-Pop, Contemporary Jazz, Crossover Jazz, Quiet Storm, Smooth Jazz
George Benson is simply one of the greatest guitarists in jazz history, but he is also an amazingly versatile musician, and that frustrates to no end critics who would paint him into a narrow bop box. He can play in just about any style -- from swing to bop to R&B to pop -- with supreme taste, a beautiful rounded tone, terrific speed, a marvelous sense of logic in building solos, and, always, an unquenchable urge to swing. His inspirations may have been Charlie Christian and Wes Montgomery -- and he can do dead-on impressions of both -- but his style is completely his own. Not only can he play lead brilliantly, he is also one of the best rhythm guitarists around, supportive to soloists and a dangerous swinger, particularly in a soul-jazz format. Yet Benson can also sing in a lush soulful tenor with mannerisms similar to those of Stevie Wonder and Donny Hathaway, and it is his voice that has proved to be more marketable to the public than his guitar. Benson is the guitar-playing equivalent of Nat King Cole -- a fantastic pianist whose smooth way with a pop vocal eventually eclipsed his instrumental prowess in the marketplace -- but unlike Cole, Benson has been granted enough time after his fling with the pop charts to reaffirm his jazz guitar credentials, which he still does at his concerts.
Benson actually started out professionally as a singer, performing in nightclubs at eight, recording four sides for RCA's X label in 1954, forming a rock band at 17 while using a guitar that his stepfather made for him. Exposure to records by Christian, Montgomery, and Charlie Parker got him interested in jazz, and by 1962, the teenaged Benson was playing in Brother Jack McDuff's band. After forming his own group in 1965, Benson became another of talent scout John Hammond's major discoveries, recording two highly regarded albums of soul-jazz and hard bop for Columbia and turning up on several records by others, including Miles Davis' Miles in the Sky. He switched to Verve in 1967, and, shortly after the death of Montgomery in June 1968, producer Creed Taylor began recording Benson with larger ensembles on A&M (1968-1969) and big groups and all-star combos on CTI (1971-1976).
While the A&M and CTI albums certainly earned their keep and made Benson a guitar star in the jazz world, the mass market didn't catch on until he began to emphasize vocals after signing with Warner Bros. in 1976. His first album for Warner Bros., Breezin', became a Top Ten hit on the strength of its sole vocal track, "This Masquerade," and this led to a string of hit albums in an R&B-flavored pop mode, culminating with the Quincy Jones-produced Give Me the Night. As the '80s wore on, though, Benson's albums became riddled with commercial formulas and inferior material, with his guitar almost entirely relegated to the background. Perhaps aware of the futility of chasing the charts (after all, "This Masquerade" was a lucky accident), Benson reversed his field late in the '80s to record a fine album of standards, Tenderly, and another with the Basie band, his guitar now featured more prominently. His pop-flavored work also improved noticeably in the '90s. Benson retains the ability to spring surprises on his fans and critics, like his dazzlingly idiomatic TV appearance and subsequent record date with Benny Goodman in 1975 in honor of John Hammond, and his awesome command of the moment at several Playboy Jazz Festivals in the 1980s. His latter-day recordings include the 1998 effort Standing Together, 2000's Absolute Benson, 2001's All Blues, and 2004's Irreplaceable. Three songs from 2006's Givin' It Up, recorded with Al Jarreau, were nominated for Grammy Awards in separate categories.
---Richard S. Ginell, All Music Guide |
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