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2466 Golson (1959 RJ) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 7, 1959 by Goethe Link Observatory in Brooklyn, IN.

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Benny Golson
Background information
Born	(1929-01-25) January 25, 1929 (age 83) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Genres	Jazz
Occupations	Saxophonist
Instruments	Tenor saxophone

Benny Golson (born January 25, 1929) is an American bebop/hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and arranger.^[1]

Biography[link]

Benny Golson at Kimball's jazz club, San Francisco with the Jazztet, 7/21/1985

While in high school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Golson played with several other promising young musicians, including John Coltrane, Red Garland, Jimmy Heath, Percy Heath, Philly Joe Jones, and Red Rodney. After graduating from Howard University Golson joined Bull Moose Jackson's rhythm and blues band; Tadd Dameron, whom Golson came to consider the most important influence on his writing, was Jackson's pianist at the time.

From 1953 to 1959 Golson played with Dameron's band and then with the bands of Lionel Hampton, Johnny Hodges, Earl Bostic, Dizzy Gillespie, and Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers with whom he recorded the classic Moanin' in 1958.

Golson was working with the Lionel Hampton band at the Apollo Theater in Harlem in 1956 when he learned that Clifford Brown, a noted and well-liked jazz trumpeter who had done a stint with him in Hampton's band, had died in a car accident. Golson was so moved by the event that he composed the threnody "I Remember Clifford", as a tribute to a fellow musician and friend.

Golson has composed several other jazz standards, such as "Stablemates", "Killer Joe", "Whisper Not", "Along Came Betty" and "Are You Real?", that have gone on to be performed and recorded by many musicians.^[2]

From 1959 to 1962 Golson co-led the Jazztet with Art Farmer. Golson then left jazz to concentrate on studio and orchestral work for 12 years. During this time he composed music for such television shows as Ironside, Room 222, M*A*S*H, and Mission: Impossible. During the mid-1970s Golson returned to jazz playing and recording. In 1983 he re-organized the Jazztet.

In 1995 Golson received the NEA Jazz Masters Award of the National Endowment for the Arts.

Golson made a cameo appearance in the 2004 movie The Terminal, related to his appearance in the A Great Day in Harlem photo. As of 2007, he tours regularly.

In October 2007 Golson received the Mellon Living Legend Legacy Award presented by the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation at a ceremony at the Kennedy Center. Additionally, during the same month, he won the University of Pittsburgh International Academy of Jazz Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award at the university's 37th Annual Jazz Concert in the Carnegie Music Hall.

In November 2009, Benny was inducted into the International Academy of Jazz Hall of Fame during a performance at the University of Pittsburgh's annual jazz seminar and concert.

Discography[link]

As leader[link]

• Benny Golson's New York Scene (Fantasy Records, 1957)
• The Modern Touch (Riverside Records, 1957)
• And The Philadelphians (United Artists, 1958)
• The Other Side of Benny Golson (Riverside, 1958)
• Groovin' with Golson (Fantasy Records, 1959)
• Gone with Golson (Original Jazz Classics, 1959)
• Gettin' with It (Original Jazz Classics, 1959)
• Meet the Jazztet (Geffen, 1960)
• Pop + Jazz = Swing (Audio Fidelity, 1961)
• Just Jazz! (Audio Fidelity, 1961)
• Another Git Together Art Farmer-Benny Golson Jazztet (Mercury Records, 1962)
• Free (Argo, 1962)
• Stockholm Sojourn (Original Jazz Classics, 1964)
• Cass Elliot (album) (RCA 1971)
• Up, Jumped Spring (LRC Ltd., 1990)
• Up Jumped Benny (Arkadia Jazz, 1997)
• Tenor Legacy (Arkadia Jazz, 1998)
• Tune in Turn on to the Hippest Commercials of the Sixties (Verve Records, 1999)
• That's Funky (Arkadia Jazz, 2000)
• One Day Forever (Arkadia Jazz, 2001)
• Terminal 1 (Concord Records, 2004)
• Turning Point (Verve Records, 2005)
• The Masquerade Is Over (Azzurra Music, 2005)
• The Many Moods of Benny Golson (Arkadia Jazz, 2007)
• Take a Number From 1 to 10 (Verve Records, 2007)
• Three Little Words (Synergie OMG, 2007)
• New Time, New 'Tet (Concord Records, 2009)

As sideman[link]

With Art Blakey

• Moanin' (1958)

With Dizzy Gillespie

• Dizzy in Greece (Verve, 1957)
• Birks' Works (Verve, 1957)
• Dizzy Gillespie at Newport (Verve, 1957)
• The Greatest Trumpet of Them All (Verve, 1957)
• Bird Songs: The Final Recordings (Telarc, 1992)
• To Bird with Love (Telarc, 1992)

With Milt Jackson

• Bags' Opus (United Artists, 1958)

With Blue Mitchell

• Out of the Blue (1959)

With Arkadia Jazz All Stars

• Thank You, Duke!

With Sarah Vaughan

• Sassy Swings Again (1967)

References[link]

External links[link]

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• Official Site
• Listening In: An Interview with Benny Golson by Bob Rosenbaum, Los Angeles, February 1982 (PDF file)
• Benny Golson at the Internet Movie Database
• Benny Golson Recreates His Great 'Jazztet' NPR Interview 2009 Jan 24
• Benny Golson Interview at Allaboutjazz.com

This article is for the guitarist. For the former football player see Tony Rice (American football).

Tony Rice
Background information
Born	(1951-06-08) June 8, 1951 (age 61) in Danville, Virginia
Genres	Americana, Bluegrass, Folk
Occupations	Musician, songwriter
Instruments	Guitar
Years active	1970–present
Labels	Rounder
Website	Official website
Notable instruments
1935 Martin D-28 (previously owned by Clarence White)[1] Santa Cruz Tony Rice Professional

Tony Rice (born David Anthony Rice, June 8, 1951, Danville, Virginia) is an American acoustic guitarist and bluegrass musician. He is considered one of the most influential acoustic guitar players in bluegrass, progressive bluegrass, newgrass and acoustic jazz.^[2][3]

Rice spans the range of acoustic music, from traditional bluegrass to jazz-influenced New Acoustic music, to songwriter-oriented folk. Over the course of his career, he has played alongside J. D. Crowe and the New South, David Grisman (during the formation of “Dawg Music”) and Jerry Garcia, led his own Tony Rice Unit, collaborated with Norman Blake, recorded with his brothers Wyatt, Ron and Larry and co-founded the Bluegrass Album Band. He has recorded with drums, piano, soprano sax, as well as with traditional bluegrass instrumentation. ^[4][5]

Early years[link]

Rice was born in Danville, Virginia but grew up in Los Angeles, California, where he was introduced to bluegrass by his father, a semi-professional musician named Herb Rice. Tony and his brothers learned the fundamentals of bluegrass and country music from hot L.A. pickers like the Kentucky Colonels, led by Roland and Clarence White. Clarence White in particular became a huge influence on Tony Rice. Crossing paths with fellow enthusiasts like Ry Cooder, Herb Pedersen and Chris Hillman reinforced the strength of the music he had learned from his father.^[6]

In 1970, Rice had moved to Louisville, Kentucky where he played with the Bluegrass Alliance, and shortly thereafter, J.D. Crowe's New South. The New South was known as one of the best and most progressive bluegrass groups - eventually adding drums and electric instruments (to Rice's displeasure). But when Ricky Skaggs joined up in 1974, the band recorded "J. D. Crowe & the New South", an acoustic album that became Rounder’s top-seller up to that time. At this point, the group consisted of Rice on guitar and lead vocals, Crowe on banjo and vocals, Jerry Douglas on Dobro, Skaggs on fiddle, mandolin, and tenor vocals, and Bobby Slone on bass and fiddle.

David Grisman Quintet[link]

Around this time, Rice met mandolinist David Grisman, who played with Red Allen during the '60s and was now working on some original material that blended jazz, bluegrass and classical styles. Rice left the New South and moved to California to join Grisman’s all-instrumental group. As part of the David Grisman Quintet, Rice expanded his musical horizons beyond three chord bluegrass, studying chord theory, learning to read charts and expanding the range of his playing. Renowned guitarist John Carlini was brought in to teach Rice music theory, and Carlini helped him learn the intricacies of jazz playing and musical improvisation in general. The David Grisman Quintet's 1977 debut recording is considered a landmark of acoustic string band music.

RockyGrass 2005

Solo career and Bluegrass Album Band[link]

In 1979, Rice left Grisman's group to pursue his own brand of music. He recorded "Acoustics", a jazz-inspired acoustic record, and then Manzanita,^[7] a collection of vocals and instrumentals, mostly in the bluegrass, but also folk style. This album doesn't include the five-string banjo. In 1980, Rice, Crowe, Bobby Hicks, Doyle Lawson and Todd Phillips formed a highly successful coalition, attacking bluegrass standards under the name the Bluegrass Album Band. This group recorded six volumes of music from 1980 to 1996.

Rice’s solo career hit its stride with "Cold on the Shoulder", a collection of bluegrass-inspired vocals. With this album, "Native American" and "Me & My Guitar", Rice arrived at a formula that incorporated his disparate influences, combining bluegrass, the songwriting of folk artists like Ian Tyson, Joni Mitchell, Phil Ochs, Tom Paxton, Bob Dylan and especially Gordon Lightfoot, with nimble, jazz-inflected guitar work. Simultaneously, he pursued his jazz-infused, experimental “spacegrass” with the Tony Rice Unit on the albums "Mar West", "Still Inside", and "Backwaters".

Collaborations[link]

In 1980 he recorded an album of bluegrass duets with Ricky Skaggs, called Skaggs & Rice. Two highly regarded albums with traditional instrumentalist and songwriter Norman Blake garnered a great deal of acclaim, as well as two Rice Brothers albums (1992 and 1994) that featured him teamed with his late elder brother, Larry and younger brothers, Wyatt and Ronnie. In 1993 he joined David Grisman and Jerry Garcia, to record The Pizza Tapes. Year after, Rice and Grisman recorded Tone Poems, an original collection of material, where they used historical vintage mandolins and guitars, different for each track. In 1995, Rice recorded folk album featuring just two guitars with John Carlini, who also worked for David Grisman Quintet. In 1997, Tony, his brother Larry, Chris Hillman (founder of Byrds) and banjoist Herb Pedersen, founded so-called "anti-supergroup" Rice, Rice, Hillman & Pedersen ^[8] and produced three volumes of music between 1997 and 2001.

Tony Rice today[link]

Tony Rice (right) performing with Peter Rowan at the Kent Stage in Kent, Ohio, November 2008

Since the early nineties, Rice's singing voice has silenced due to dysphonia, but he remains one of new acoustic music's top instrumentalists, bringing originality and vitality to everything he plays.^[9] He has often collaborated with Peter Rowan and they have recorded two CDs for Rounder Records: "You Were There For Me," released 2004, and "Quartet," released in 2007. For the second recording, Rice and Rowan were joined by Bryn Bright on vocals/bass and Sharon Gilchrist on vocals/mandolin.^[10] 2007 saw Tony team up with Alison Krauss and Union Station for a string of spring concerts, drawing material from Rice's 35-year career. Krauss always has cited Rice as being her prime musical influence.^[11] Rice resides in Reidsville, North Carolina.

Publications[link]

The authorized biography of Tony Rice, titled "Still Inside: The Tony Rice Story," has been completed by Tim Stafford (a member of award-winning bluegrass ensemble Blue Highway) and Hawai`i journalist Caroline Wright, and was published by Word Of Mouth Press in Kingsport, TN, USA in 2010. The book's official release took place at Merlefest in North Carolina, USA.^[12][13]

Discography[link]

Awards[link]

Grammy Awards[link]

• Best Country Instrumental Performance - The New South, Fireball - 1983

IBMA (International Bluegrass Music Association) Awards[link]

• Instrumental Performer of the Year - Guitar - 1990, 1991, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2007
• Instrumental Group of the Year - The Tony Rice Unit - 1991, 1995
• Instrumental Group of the Year - The Bluegrass Album Band - 1990
• Instrumental Album of the Year - Bluegrass Instrumentals, Volume 6 (Rounder) ; The Bluegrass Album Band - 1997

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official site
• http://www.classicwebs.com/bg_allia.htm
• 1998 Flatpicking Guitar Magazine Article
• Tony Rice on YouTube
  • Manzanita
  • Ten Degrees and Getting Colder
  • Church Street Blues
  • Cold on the Shoulder
  • Shenandonah
  • Freeborn Man
  • Where the Soul of Man Never Dies (duet with Ricky Skaggs)
  • Tipper
  • Blue Railroad Train
  • Old Home Place
  • Nine Pound Hammer
  • Little Sadie

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