Benny Golson, a renowned tenor saxophonist and composer known for jazz standards like “Killer Joe” and “Along Came Betty,” has passed away at the age of 95. Golson's career spanned seven decades, collaborating with legendary figures like Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, and John Coltrane. He is best remembered for his compositions, including the poignant “I Remember Clifford,” written in tribute to trumpeter Clifford Brown.
FILE - Benny Golson speaks at the National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master Awards Ceremony and Concert held in New York, Jan. 11, 2011.
Over his seven-decade musical career, Golson worked with some of the biggest luminaries in jazz, including Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton and John Coltrane. He built much of his reputation not as a performer but from his compositions, which also included “I Remember Clifford,” written in 1956 after trumpeter Clifford Brown, a friend, died in a car crash at age 25.
After a hiatus of more than a dozen years, Golson resumed playing the saxophone in the mid-1970s and launched a new version of the Jazztet with Farmer in 1982. He continued performing and writing music into his 90s.Franklin, who worked with Golson for 25 years, said Golson stopped performing when COVID-19 shut down music venues in 2020 but continued working on projects, such as giving interviews for a forthcoming documentary, “Benny Golson: Looking Beyond The Horizon.
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