George Benson
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Newport Jazz Festival 1969: New Records & Not All That Jazz
Live Review by Ian Dove, Billboard, 19 July 1969
NEWPORT, R.I. — On paper at least the experiment of adding rock music to the Newport Jazz Festival 1969 came from the purest of motives. ...
George Benson: Keystone Korner, San Francisco CA
Live Review by Tom Vickers, Midnight Sun, 28 November 1974
Some things of funk and feet ...
Lou Reed: Ladies and gentlemen... the interview of the year (already)!
Interview by Lester Bangs, New Musical Express, 8 March 1975
"Lou Reed is a completely depraved pervert and pathetic death dwarf — a wasted talent living off the dumbell nihilism of a '70s generation that ...
George Benson, Grover Washington, Jr.: Paramount Theatre, Oakland CA
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 17 January 1976
A concert of funk and syncopation ...
George Benson: Breezin' (Warner Bros. K56199)
Review by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 15 June 1976
ALTHOUGH GUITAR star George has been around for some years and is acknowledged by most jazz musicians to be the number one guitarist of them ...
George Benson: By George No. 1 R and B, Jazz and Pop
Profile and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 24 August 1976
Music history was made recently when George Benson topped the R&B, jazz and pop charts with his debut album for Warner Bros. The guitar man ...
George Benson: Mr Bad Makes Good
Interview by Robin Katz, Sounds, 4 September 1976
VETERAN JAZZ guitarist George 'Bad' Benson recently went to school to pick up his young son. Upon arrival, a group of eager young schoolkids clustered ...
Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 5 February 1977
"HE (MILES Davis) was one of the first smart guys in this industry. I love him a lot and every time I speak to him ...
Blow for Love and Money: Crossover Jazz in the Seventies
Overview by Davitt Sigerson, Black Music, March 1977
In the first part of a detailed investigation Davitt Sigerson chronicles how "jazz" found its way back to the commercial big league. ...
George Benson: In Flight (Warner Bros. K56327)
Review by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 1 March 1977
GEORGE IS joined by Phil Upchurch (rhythm guitar), Ronnie Foster (keyboards), Ralph McDonald (percussion), Harvey Mason (drums), Stanley Banks (bass) and Jorge Dalto (piano and ...
Interview by Brian Case, New Musical Express, 28 May 1977
When 'jazz guitar' rises on the Dow-Jones Index you know there's been a crossover. GEORGE BENSON made the switch from beret to broader base but ...
George Benson: It's A Man's Man's Man's Man's World
Interview by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 11 June 1977
"YOU'RE SAYING that women are equal to men and all that crazy stuff!" George Benson laughed in astonishment. ...
George Benson: Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London
Live Review by Richard Williams, The Times, 30 January 1978
A BLACK AMERICAN musician, the leader of a band which sold several million records in 1977, told me last week that the blues are dead. ...
Review by Paul Sexton, Record Mirror, 30 August 1980
SOME WORDS of praise, late in the day, for a Warner Brother and a Warner Sister. 1980 is already George Benson's year, his commercial breakthrough. ...
Profile and Interview by Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 16 July 1983
So just how did this work a day guitarist called GEORGE BENSON sidestep the critical vitriol of the jazz and soul purists to become one ...
George Benson: Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by Mick Brown, The Guardian, 1 November 1985
AT LAST! A performer who has conquered the formidable problems of Wembley Arena and turned it to the service of a triumphant concert. ...
George Benson: "If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It"
Interview by Adam Sweeting, Q, February 1987
KEN FRITZ, the slim, obsessively neat half of George Benson's management team Fritz & Turner, was worried that he may have caught a chill while ...
George Benson: Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by Lloyd Bradley, The Independent, 16 November 1990
All what jazz? ...
Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 20 July 1993
TRYING TO please all of the people all of the time is no easy task and when you're a multi-faceted music man you run the ...
George Benson, Buddy Guy: Hammersmith Apollo, London
Live Review by Paul Sexton, The Times, 15 November 1994
Blues for Guy as Benson frets ...
Interview by Andria Lisle, Memphis Flyer, 6 August 2004
From Miles to Usher: George Benson on four decades of musical changes. ...
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