A True Jazz Legend
The Benny Golson Quartet!
Thursday, March 1
with stellar Mike LeDonne on piano, powerhouse Ray Drummond on bass, and Portland’s fine Ron Steen on drums!
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Act now. This show is certain to sell out. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity.
- 7:30 Show: $25 ($20 members)
- 9:30 Show: $25 ($20 members)
- 6:30 Reception Package (includes 7:30 Show): $40 ($30 members). Meet Benny Golson and enjoy hors d’ ouevres and early seating to 7:30 show.
Jazz legend Benny Golson is a renowned composer and saxophonist who has performed in the bands of world famous Benny Goodman, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Earl Bostic and Art Blakey.
ABOUT BENNY GOLSON (from AllAboutJazz.com)
For more than 50 years, Golson has enjoyed an illustrious, musical career in which he has not only made scores of recordings but has also composed and arranged music for:
Count Basie, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Sammy Davis Jr., Mama Cass Elliott, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Shirley Horn, David Jones and the Monkees, Quincy Jones, Peggy Lee, Carmen McRae, Anita O’Day, Itzhak Perlman, Oscar Peterson, Lou Rawls, Mickey Rooney, Diana Ross, The Animals (Eric Burden), Mel Torme, George Shearing, Dusty Springfield
For three years, between 1960 and the end of 1962, the original co-led Benny Golson-Art Farmer Jazztet made seven albums that sold very well and launched that sextet to a high plateau where gigs at all the best jazz venues awaited. Before that carefully mapped-out group dynamic emerged, featuring new and long popular Golson compositions, Farmer worked mostly on the West Coast with bandleaders Jay McShann, Johnny Otis and Gerald Wilson. On the East Coast he played with saxophonist Gigi Gryce and joined pianist Horace Silver’s Quintet. When Farmer and Golson created their now-legendary Jazztet in 1959, jazz was quite possibly at its peak of innovation. In retrospect, it’s clear that it’s six-man format and tightly integrated voicing launched one of that era’s most compelling and artistically enduring ensembles.
Industrial Revelation
(from Seattle!)
Friday, February 25 • 8 pm
$10 ($8 members)
Industrial Revelation is ready to both circumvent the jazz tradition and hit you over the head with it…In spite of their youth, the group members express a deep soulfulness in their music and their philosophy, assimilating what used to be valuable in jazz as “great Black Music”: a spirit that one doesn’t realize was missing until its presence reappears.
- John Gilbreath, Seattle Sound
This outstanding Seattle quartet features four innovative and gifted performers: Ahamefule J. Oluo on trumpet, Josh Rawlings on Fender Rhodes and piano, Evan Flory-Barnes on bass, and D’Vonne Lewis on drums. Continue Reading…
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The Jazz Station is a workshop, rehearsal and performance venue for local jazz artists and fans and a gallery space with a monthly art show.
Paid members support the Jazz Station through monthly subscriptions. Concerts are open to the public. The Jazz Station is a project of the non-profit Willamette Jazz Society.
