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
Studio album by
ReleasedApril 15, 2016
RecordedDecember 7, 2015
StudioThe Samurai Hotel Recording Studio, Astoria, NY
GenreJazz
Length54:53
LabelHighNote
HCD 7288
ProducerBenny Golson
Benny Golson chronology
New Time, New 'Tet
(2008)
Horizon Ahead
(2016)

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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

  1. "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" (Duke Ellington, Bob Russell) – 6:16
  2. "Jump Start" – 3:10
  3. "Horizon Ahead" – 6:03
  4. "Mood Indigo" (Ellington, Barney Bigard, Irving Mills) – 4:16
  5. "Domingo" – 8:41
  6. "Lulu's Back In Town" (Harry Warren, Al Dubin) – 4:40
  7. "Night Shade" – 5:28
  8. "Three Little Words" (Harry Ruby, Bert Kalmar) – 5:57
  9. Spoken introduction – 2:39
  10. "Out of the Darkness, and Into the Light" (Carl Allen) – 7:43

Personnel

Production

References

  1. Jazz Depot: HighNote discography accessed February 26, 2019
  2. Benny Golson website: discography accessed February 26, 2019
  3. Bowers, J., All About Jazz Review, accessed February 22, 2019
  4. Haga, E., JazzTimes Review, accessed February 22, 2019
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