Benny Golson discography



This is the discography for American jazz musician Benny Golson.

As leader

 * The Modern Touch (Riverside, 1958) – recorded in 1957
 * The Other Side of Benny Golson (Riverside, 1958)
 * Benny Golson and the Philadelphians (United Artists, 1958)
 * Benny Golson's New York Scene (Contemporary, 1959) – recorded in 1957
 * Gone with Golson (New Jazz, 1959)
 * Groovin' with Golson (New Jazz, 1959)
 * Gettin' with It (New Jazz, 1959)
 * Winchester Special with Lem Winchester (New Jazz, 1959)
 * Gettin' with It (New Jazz, 1960) – recorded in 1959
 * Take a Number from 1 to 10 (Argo, 1961) – recorded in 1960-61
 * Pop + Jazz = Swing (Audio Fidelity, 1962) – reconfigured and issued as Just Jazz! (1965)
 * Turning Point (Mercury, 1962)
 * Free (Argo, 1963) – recorded in 1962
 * Stockholm Sojourn (Prestige, 1965) – recorded in 1964
 * Tune In, Turn On (Verve, 1967)
 * Are You Real (CBS/Sony, 1977)
 * Killer Joe (Columbia, 1977)
 * I'm Always Dancin' to the Music (Columbia, 1978)
 * California Message with Curtis Fuller (Baystate, 1981) – recorded in 1980
 * One More Mem'ry with Curtis Fuller (Baystate, 1982) – recorded in 1981
 * Time Speaks with Freddie Hubbard and Woody Shaw (Baystate, 1983) – recorded in 1982
 * This Is for You, John (Baystate, 1984) – recorded in 1983
 * Stardust with Freddie Hubbard (Denon, 1987)
 * Benny Golson Quartet Live (Dreyfus, 1991) – live recorded in 1989
 * Benny Golson Quartet (LRC Ltd., 1990) – also released as Up, Jumped, Spring (2002)
 * Domingo with Curtis Fuller (Dreyfus, 1992) – recorded in 1991
 * I Remember Miles (Alfa Jazz, 1993) – recorded in 1992
 * That's Funky with Nat Adderley (Meldac Jazz, 1995) – recorded in 1994
 * Three Little Words (Jazz House Records 609, 1997) – recorded live at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in 1965
 * Up Jumped Benny (Arkadia Jazz, 1997) – live recorded in 1996
 * Tenor Legacy (Arkadia Jazz, 1998) – recorded in 1996
 * Remembering Clifford (Milestone, 1998) – recorded in 1997
 * One Day, Forever (Arkadia Jazz, 2001) – recorded in 1996-2000
 * Terminal 1 (Concord, 2004)
 * The Masquerade Is Over (Azzurra Music, 2005)
 * The Many Moods of Benny Golson (Arkadia Jazz, 2007)
 * New Time, New 'Tet (Concord, 2009) – recorded in 2008
 * Horizon Ahead (HighNote, 2016) – recorded in 2015

With the Jazztet

 * Meet the Jazztet (Argo, 1960)
 * Big City Sounds (Argo, 1960)
 * The Jazztet and John Lewis (Argo, 1961) – recorded in 1960-61
 * The Jazztet at Birdhouse (Argo, 1961) – live
 * Here and Now (Mercury, 1962)
 * Another Git Together (Mercury, 1962)
 * Voices All (East West, 1983) – recorded in 1982
 * Moment to Moment (Soul Note, 1983)
 * V.A., Playboy Jazz Festival (Elektra/Musician, 1984)[2LP] – compilation live recorded in 1982
 * Back to the City (Contemporary, 1986) – live
 * Nostalgia (Baystate, 1988) – recorded in 1983
 * Real Time (Contemporary, 1988) – live recorded in 1986

As arranger
With Kenny Burrell
 * Both Feet on the Ground (Fantasy, 1973)

With Jimmy Cleveland
 * Rhythm Crazy (EmArcy, 1964) – recorded in 1959. also as a performer.

With Art Farmer
 * Brass Shout (United Artists, 1959)
 * Baroque Sketches (Columbia, 1967) – recorded in 1966

With Curtis Fuller
 * Sliding Easy (United Artists, 1959)

With Red Holloway
 * Sax, Strings & Soul (Prestige, 1964)

With Roland Kirk
 * The Roland Kirk Quartet Meets the Benny Golson Orchestra (Mercury, 1963)

With Illinois Jacquet
 * Bosses of the Ballad (Argo, 1964)

With Jack McDuff
 * Prelude (Prestige, 1964) – recorded in 1963
 * The Dynamic Jack McDuff (Prestige, 1964)
 * Walk On By (Prestige, 1966)
 * The Midnight Sun (Prestige, 1969) – recorded in 1964-66
 * Steppin' Out (Prestige, 1969) – recorded in 1961-66

With Freda Payne
 * How Do You Say I Don't Love You Anymore (MGM, 1966)

With Jerome Richardson
 * Groove Merchant (Verve, 1968) – recorded in 1967

With Sahib Shihab
 * Jazz Sahib (Savoy, 1957)

With Jimmy Witherspoon
 * Some of My Best Friends Are the Blues (Prestige, 1964)

As sideman
With Art Blakey
 * 1958 - Paris Olympia (Fontana, 1958) – live
 * Des Femmes Disparaissent (Fontana, 1958) – soundtrack
 * Moanin' (Blue Note, 1959) – recorded in 1958

With Curtis Fuller
 * The Curtis Fuller Jazztet (Savoy, 1959)
 * Blues-ette (Savoy, 1960) – recorded in 1959
 * Imagination (Savoy1960) – recorded in 1959
 * Blues-ette Part II (Savoy, 1993)

With Dizzy Gillespie
 * Dizzy in Greece (Verve, 1957) – recorded in 1956–57
 * 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 Quincy Jones
 * The Birth of a Band! (Mercury, 1959)
 * I/We Had a Ball (Limelight, 1965) – recorded in 1964-65

With John Lewis
 * The Wonderful World of Jazz (Atlantic, 1961) – recorded in 1960
 * Essence (Atlantic, 1965) – recorded in 1960-62

With others
 * Ahmed Abdul-Malik, East Meets West (RCA Victor, 1960) – recorded in 1959
 * Arkadia Jazz All Stars, Thank You, Duke! (Arkadia Jazz, 1999)
 * Ron Carter, Stardust (Somethin' Else, 2001)
 * Jimmy Cleveland, Cleveland Style (EmArcy, 1958) – recorded in 1957
 * Cass Elliot, Cass Elliot (RCA, 1972) – recorded in 1971
 * Art Farmer, Modern Art (United Artists, 1958)
 * Ernie Henry, Last Chorus (Riverside, 1958) – recorded in 1956–57
 * Milt Jackson, Bags' Opus (United Artists, 1959) – recorded in 1958
 * Philly Joe Jones, Drums Around the World (Riverside, 1959)
 * Abbey Lincoln, It's Magic (Riverside, 1958)
 * Blue Mitchell, Out of the Blue (Riverside, 1959)
 * Lee Morgan, Lee Morgan Vol. 3 (Blue Note, 1957)
 * Oscar Pettiford, The Oscar Pettiford Orchestra in Hi-Fi Volume Two (ABC-Paramount, 1957) – also composer and arranger
 * Sarah Vaughan, Sassy Swings Again (Mercury, 1967)
 * Meeco, Beauty of the Night (Connector, 2012)[2CD] – recorded in 2011
 * Gail Davies, Since I Don't Have You (Little Chickadee, 2014)