Benny Golson, Up Jumped Benny - 1h 11m 33s

Tracks & Durations

1. Up Jumped Spring	8:48
2. Stablemates	8:46
3. Talk Intro	0:23
4. Tiny Capers	10:45
5. Talk Intro	0:24
6. I Remember Clifford	15:22
7. For Old Time Sake	6:32
8. Whisper Not	10:02
9. Gypsy Jingle Jangle	10:24

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Review

Supported by a trio of impressive young stars and Recorded May 23, 1996 at The Jazz Club Uster Switzerland, and is one of the best things happening in jazz today is the bandstand combination of past masters and talented whipper-snappers. When everything gets right, what results is music that has both the reflective substance of time spent at the craft and the ambitious bite of focused youth. We hear that phenomenon on this recording, where Benny Golson has surrounded himself with youngsters. This is good for him and good for them. He can count on their energy and and they can count on his knowledge. This is how the culture of jazz is most truly passed on--up there on the bandstand, back there in the dressing room discussing music, out there on the bus, in the hotel, on the train, in the air, where stories of the old days and of mythic personalities are told, some funny, some strange, some tragic, a few remaining in the memory with the force of something that will never ever leave.

Golson, with a sound now larger and more given to poetic subtleties and grand gestures than ever, is a long-term virtuoso. He is one of those whose experience brings us all the way up to date by addressing John Coltrane's harmonic details and the traditions that lay beneath them. Golson also lets us hear his very personal redefinition of the classic sound of that tenor saxophone as inherited from Coleman Hawkins, Don Byas, Chu Berry, Ben Webster, and Lucky Thompson. In his playing Golson gives the horn the lyric textures of contemplation and, at will, achieves aural recognition of the rough and tumble ways of the big city. The delicate revelations of high order intimacy are as clear to him as the overcrowding, the confusion, the vitality, and the will to civilization that we see in our best cities. He is an extremely sophisticated man.

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