Benny Golson was an American bebop and hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and arranger. He came to prominence with the big bands of Lionel Hampton and Dizzy Gillespie, more as a writer than a performer, before launching his solo career. Golson was known for co-founding and co-leading The Jazztet with trumpeter Art Farmer in 1959. From the late 1960s through the 1970s Golson was in demand as an arranger for film and television and thus was less active as a performer, but he and Farmer re-formed the Jazztet in 1982.
Albert "Tootie" Heath was an American jazz hard bop drummer, the brother of tenor saxophonist Jimmy Heath and the double-bassist Percy Heath. With Stanley Cowell, the Heaths formed the Heath Brothers jazz band in 1975.
Oh Yeah is a studio album by the American jazz musician and composer Charles Mingus. It was released in April 1962 through Atlantic Records. It was recorded in 1961, and features Mingus playing piano rather than his usual upright bass, and also singing on three songs.
Domino is an album by American jazz saxophonist Roland Kirk, released on Mercury Records in November 1962. It was reissued in 2000 on Verve with bonus tracks featuring sessions with Herbie Hancock. It includes Kirk's tribute to Thelonious Monk and Charles Mingus, "Where Monk and Mingus Live", in a medley with the former's "Let's Call This".
Don Kiethly Butterfield was an American jazz and classical tuba player.
Duke Ellington & John Coltrane is a jazz album by Duke Ellington and John Coltrane. It was released in January 1963 through Impulse! Records.
Mingus Dynasty is a jazz album by Charles Mingus, recorded in 1959 and released on Columbia Records in May 1960. It is a companion album to his 1959 record Mingus Ah Um, and was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999. The title alludes to Mingus's ancestry, which was partially Chinese.
We Free Kings is a studio album by the jazz multi-instrumentalist Roland Kirk, released on Mercury Records in January 1962. His group works through a set of bluesy post-bop numbers, including a highly regarded version of Charlie Parker's "Blues for Alice". The title track, a Kirk composition, is a variation on the Christmas carol "We Three Kings".
Richard Gene Williams was an American jazz trumpeter.
Charles "Majeed" or "Majid" Greenlee was an American jazz trombonist who worked extensively with Archie Shepp.
Out of the Afternoon is an album by jazz drummer Roy Haynes, released in the summer of 1962 on Impulse! Records. It features multi-instrumentalist Roland Kirk among the musicians in Haynes' quartet.
The Swingin' Miss D is the sixth studio album by Dinah Washington, arranged by Quincy Jones. It was recorded in December 1956 and released in September 1957.
New York, N.Y. is an album by George Russell, originally released on Decca in either July or August 1959.
Reeds & Deeds is a studio album by the jazz multi-instrumentalist Roland Kirk. It was released through Mercury Records in June 1963. It includes performances by Kirk with Virgil Jones, Charles Greenlee, Harold Mabern, Abdullah Rafik, Walter Perkins, Tom McIntosh and Richard Davis, with arrangements by Benny Golson.
Dog Years in the Fourth Ring is a compilation album by jazz multi-instrumentalist Rahsaan Roland Kirk featuring 2 CDs of previously unreleased live performances and Kirk's solo album Natural Black Inventions: Root Strata on the third disc. It was released on the 32 Jazz label in 1997.
Paul Chambers Quintet is the fourth studio album by the American jazz bassist Paul Chambers. It was released through Blue Note Records in April 1958. The recording took place on May 19, 1957. The quintet features trumpeter Donald Byrd, tenor saxophonist Clifford Jordan, pianist Tommy Flanagan and drummer Elvin Jones.
Pre-Bird is an album by jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus consisting of music that was composed before Mingus first heard Charlie Parker, hence the title Pre-Bird. It was released on Mercury Records in September 1961.
Turning Point is an album by saxophonist Benny Golson, featuring performances recorded in late 1962 and originally released on the Mercury label.
This is the discography for American jazz musician Benny Golson.
I/We Had a Ball is an album consisting of jazz versions of songs from Jack Lawrence and Stan Freeman's musical I Had a Ball performed by Art Blakey, Milt Jackson, Oscar Peterson, Dizzy Gillespie, Quincy Jones and Chet Baker which was released by Limelight in 1965.
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