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...show also featured Dartmouth’s own musical medley, and a world premiere of a wind orchestra setting of the classic jazz song, “I Remember Clifford,” written by saxophonist Benny Golson. Thomas Everett, the Director of Band since 1971, was commissioned to arrange the Golson piece for a wind chamber group ensemble, and chose the occasion of the Montage concert to debut the piece...
Savvy on the saxophone and just as smooth at storytelling, Benny Golson charmed a small audience last Thursday at the New College Theatre. Those who attended the two-hour interview were privileged to have stumbled upon one of the jewels of the jazz industry. With tales from his boyhood spent in Philadelphia with John Coltrane and his successful years of touring with Dizzy Gillespie, Golson passed on stories and advice to the next generation of aspiring jazz artists.When jazz was still young, Golson was busy playing tenor saxophone whenever he could. “We were trying to figure...
...invite them to play or talk at Harvard meant a great deal,” he says. “In some ways it was a statement that you’ve done something substantial with your life and your creations.” Tomorrow, Benny Golson and Mulgrew Miller will join the jazz bands for a spring concert to wrap up several days of activities at Harvard, including rehearsing with students, participating in a Learning from Performers conversation through the Office for the Arts, and, for Miller, teaching a master class. Golson, a saxophonist, composer, and arranger, has played...
Some Americans would take umbrage at being called a gringo. But author Barry Golson considers it a term of endearment. In his new book, Gringos in Paradise, Golson, 61, tells the lively story of how he and his wife Thia, 60, built their retirement dream house in Sayulita, a seaside village of 1,500 on the Pacific Coast of Mexico. TIME spoke with Golson about expat life south of the border...
...wandering seniors were only slightly upset that the tailgate failed to materialize. “All it would have taken was a flag and some food to congregate in one location,” Golson grumbled. “But it’s okay...