Horizon Ahead
Horizon Ahead is an album by saxophonist/composer Benny Golson that was recorded in 2015 and released on the HighNote label the following year.[1][2]
Horizon Ahead | ||||
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Released | April 15, 2016 | |||
Recorded | December 7, 2015 | |||
Studio | The Samurai Hotel Recording Studio, Astoria, NY | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 54:53 | |||
Label | HighNote HCD 7288 | |||
Producer | Benny Golson | |||
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Reception
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Source | Rating |
All About Jazz | [3] |
All About Jazz's Jack Bowers stated "At age eighty-seven, saxophonist Benny Golson is one of the last surviving links to the Golden Age of modern jazz... 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 ... 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".[3]
JazzTimes' Evan Haga observed "Neither blowing session nor conceptual work, Horizon Ahead is simply terrific".[4]
Track listing
All compositions by Benny Golson except where noted
- "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" (Duke Ellington, Bob Russell) – 6:16
- "Jump Start" – 3:10
- "Horizon Ahead" – 6:03
- "Mood Indigo" (Ellington, Barney Bigard, Irving Mills) – 4:16
- "Domingo" – 8:41
- "Lulu's Back In Town" (Harry Warren, Al Dubin) – 4:40
- "Night Shade" – 5:28
- "Three Little Words" (Harry Ruby, Bert Kalmar) – 5:57
- Spoken introduction – 2:39
- "Out of the Darkness, and Into the Light" (Carl Allen) – 7:43
Personnel
Production
- Joe Fields – executive producer
- Dennis Wall – engineer
References
- Jazz Depot: HighNote discography accessed February 26, 2019
- Benny Golson website: discography accessed February 26, 2019
- Bowers, J., All About Jazz Review, accessed February 22, 2019
- Haga, E., JazzTimes Review, accessed February 22, 2019