Benny Golson (born January 25, 1929) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and arranger. January 25 is the 25th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... -1... Jazz master Louis Armstrong remains one of the most loved and best known of all jazz musicians. ... A saxophonist is a musician who plays the saxophone. ... A composer is a person who writes music. ... In popular music an arrangement is a setting of a piece of music, which may have been composed by the arranger or by someone else. ...

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. Independence Hall, as it appears today. ... John Coltrane John William Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. ... William Red Garland (1923–1984) was an American jazz pianist whose complex block-chord style influenced many forthcoming pianists in the jazz idiom. ... James Edward Heath (born in 1926) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist, and the brother of bassist Percy Heath and drummer Tootie Heath. ... Percy Heath, (April 30, 1923 – April 28, 2005), was a jazz musician, most famous for his 40+ years as the double bass player for the Modern Jazz Quartet (MJQ). ... Joseph Rudolph (Philly Joe) Jones (July 15, 1923 – August 30, 1985) was an American jazz drummer. ... Robert Roland Chudnick (1927–1994), who performed as Red Rodney, was an American jazz trumpeter. ... Howard University is a historically black university in Washington, D.C. It was established by a congressional charter in 1867, and much of its early funding came from the Freedmens Bureau. ... Benjamin (Bull Moose) Jackson (1919 – American blues and rhythm and blues singer and saxophonist. ... Rhythm and blues (or R&B) was coined as a musical marketing term introduced in the United States in the late 1940s by Jerry Wexler at Billboard magazine, used to designate upbeat popular music performed by African American artists that combined jazz and blues. ... Tadley Ewing Peake (Tadd) Dameron (February 21, 1917 – March 8, 1965) was an American jazz pianist, arranger, and composer. ... A pianist is a person who plays the piano. ...

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. Lionel Hampton with George W. Bush Lionel Hampton (April 20, 1908 – August 31, 2002), was a bandleader, jazz percussionist and vibraphone virtuoso. ... John Cornelius Johnny Hodges (b. ... Earl Bostic (1913 – 1965) was an American jazz and rhythm and blues alto saxophonist. ... Dizzy Gillespie photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1955 John Birks Dizzy Gillespie (October 21, 1917 - January 6, 1993) was born in Cheraw, South Carolina. ... Arthur (Art) Blakey, also known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina, ( October 11, 1919 - October 16, 1990) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. ...

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. The Apollo Theater is one of the most famous clubs for popular music in the United States, and certainly the most famous club associated almost exclusively with African-American performers. ... This article is about the Harlem neighborhood in New York City. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Clifford Brown (October 30, 1930 – June 26, 1956) was an influential and highly-rated American jazz trumpeter. ... A trumpeter may be one of several things: A trumpeter is a musician who plays the trumpet. ... A threnody is a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person (synonyms include dirge, coronach, lament, elegy, and requiem). ... I Remember Clifford is the name of a beautiful jazz threnody written by jazz tenor saxophone player Benny Golson in memory of Clifford Brown, the influential, highly-rated and much-loved jazz trumpeter who died in an auto accident when he was only 25 years old; he and Golson had...

Golson has composed several other jazz standards such as "Stable Mates," "Killer Joe," "Whisper Not," and "Along Came Betty." Jazz standard refers to a tune that is widely known, performed, and recorded among jazz musicians. ...

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 Ironsides, Room 222, M*A*S*H, and The Six Million Dollar Man. During the mid-1970s Golson returned to jazz playing and recording. In 1983 he re-organized the Jazztet. Arthur Stewart (Art) Farmer (August 21, 1928- October 4, 1999), was an American jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player. ... Ironside may refer to: Oliver Cromwell, the English political leader who was nicknamed Old Ironsides. Ironside, a cavalry trooper in the army formed by Cromwell. ... Room 222 was an ABC situation comedy/drama TV series that aired from September 17, 1969 to January 11, 1974. ... Inspired by the 1970 20th Century-Fox film of the same name, M*A*S*H (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) was an American television series about a team of medical professionals and support staff stationed at the 4077th MASH in Korea during the Korean War. ... Opening scene from The Six Million Dollar Man The Six Million Dollar Man was an American television series about a cyborg working for a U.S. secret service called OSI. The show was based on the book Cyborg from Martin Caidin, and aired on the ABC network from 1973 to...

In 1995 Golson received the NEA Jazz Masters Award of the National Endowment for the Arts. The NEA, or National Endowment for the Arts, every year honors up to seven jazz musicians with Jazz Master Awards. ... The National Endowment for the Arts is a United States federally funded program that offers support and funding for projects that exhibit artistic excellence. ...

Golson made an important cameo appearance in the 2004 movie, The Terminal. As of 2005, he tours regularly. For other uses of the word terminal, see Terminal. ...

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