Jazz great Benny Golson, a tenor saxophonist and composer of standards such as « Killer Joe » and « Along Came Betty, » has died. He was 95.
Jazz great Benny Golson, a tenor saxophonist and composer of standards such as « Killer Joe » and « Along Came Betty », has died.
Jazz great Benny Golson, a tenor saxophonist and composer of standards such as « Killer Joe » and « Along Came Betty », has died.
Jazz great Benny Golson, a tenor saxophonist and composer of standards such as « Killer Joe » and « Along Came Betty », has died.
Jazz great Benny Golson, a tenor saxophonist and composer of standards such as « Killer Joe » and « Along Came Betty », has died.
Jazz great Benny Golson, a tenor saxophonist and composer of standards such as « Killer Joe » and « Along Came Betty », has died. He was 95.
Golson died Saturday at his home in Manhattan after a short illness, said Golson’s longtime agent, Jason Franklin.
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.
