（24Bit_32Bit）Benny Golson - Horizon Ahead 2016 （FLAC/24/96）

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Benny Golson / Horizon Ahead
Record format / Record source : [TR24] [OF]
Year of release / reissue of the disc : 2016
Genre : Jazz Publisher (label) : HighNote Records
Duration : 00:54:53
Scans in the contents of the distribution : Booklet PDF
Container : FLAC (* .flac)
Rip type : tracks
Bit depth : 24/96
Number of channels : 2.0

Recorded at The Samurai Hotel Recording Studio, Astoria, NY on December 7, 2015.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizon_Ahead

At age eighty-seven, saxophonist Benny Golson is one of the last surviving links to the Golden Age of modern jazz, ushered in by the likes of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Kenny Clarke and others in the early '40s. Golson came on the bop scene about a decade later and has been a force ever since, whether playing, composing, arranging, buttressing Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers or leading groups of various sizes. In 1956, Golson wrote "Whisper Not," the first of several of his works that may properly be labeled jazz standards. That list includes (but is not limited to) "I Remember Clifford," "Blues March," "Along Came Betty" and "Killer Joe."
On tenor sax, Golson has his own voice, a husky, vibrato-laden dialect out of the Ben Webster / Coleman Hawkins school with an occasional nod to Lester Young and subtle permutations that set him apart from those and other forebears. If time has dulled Golson's razor-sharp mind or degraded his admirable technique, it's certainly not apparent on Horizon Ahead, on which Golson is in total command of a much-more-youthful rhythm section. To further press home the point, he composed four of the album's nine selections including the title song, (presumably) arranged the first eight tracks, and even wrote the elaborate liner notes.
Aside from Golson's winning themes, the menu consists of Ellington's "Mood Indigo" and "Don't Get Around Much Anymore," the standards "Lulu's Back in Town" and "Three Little Words," and Carl Allen's solo drum piece, "Out of the Darkness, and Into the Light" (the last preceded by Golson's astute spoken introduction). There's a pleasing aura of self-assurance and self-control throughout, even when Golson and his mates are wailing, as on "Jump Start," "Domingo" or "Three Little Words." Pianist Mike LeDonne plays his role as accompanist / soloist with aplomb, as does bassist Buster Williams (who duets with Golson on a charming version of "Lulu's Back in Town"). Allen's timekeeping is up to its usual standards, so no more need be said about that.
At an age that is far past retirement for most mortals, Benny Golson not only keeps working but showing a younger generation that when it comes to contemporary jazz, maturity and experience are dependable allies in the ongoing battle with Father Time. It is, of course, a battle that can never be won, but Golson proves on Horizon Ahead that when his time comes, he'll definitely go down swinging.
Jack Bowers

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曲目:
01 - Don’t Get Around Much Anymore 06:17
02 - Jump Start 03:10
03 - Horizon Ahead 06:04
04 - Mood Indigo 04:17
05 - Domingo 08:41
06 - Lulu's Back in Town 04:41
07 - Night Shade 05:28
08 - Three Little Words 05:57
09 - Spoken Introduction to out of the Darkness, and into the Light 02:39
10 - Out of the Darkness, and into the Light 07:44

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