Bohemian Caverns presents NEA Jazz Master Dr. BENNY GOLSON Multi-talented-and internationally famous jazz legend world note Friday 10 & Saturday 11, 2010 Two sets 8:30pm & 10:30 RSVP Now!

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BENNY GOLSON

Multi-talented-and internationally famous jazz legend, - a composer, arranger, lyricist, producer - and tenor saxophonist of world note

In 1995 Golson received the NEA Jazz Masters Award of the National Endowment for the Arts. Nation's highest honor in jazz is bestowed on eight living legends Click here: NEA Jazz Masters 1982 to 2010

In October 2007 Golson received the Mellon Living Legend Legacy Award presented by the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation at a ceremony at the Kennedy Center. Additionally, during the same month, he won the University of Pittsburgh International Academy of Jazz Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award at the university's 37th Annual Jazz Concert in the Carnegie Music Hall.

In November 2009, Benny was inducted into the International Academy of Jazz Hall of Fame during a performance at the University of Pittsburgh's annual jazz seminar and concert.

He has recorded over 30 albums for many recording companies in the United States and Europe under his own name and innumerable ones with other major artists. A prodigious writer, Golson has written well over 300 compositions. For more than 55 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,

Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith, Peter Tork David Jones and the Monkees,

Quincy Jones,

Peggy Lee,

Carmen McRae,

Anita O'Day,

tzhak Perlman,

Oscar Peterson,

Lou Rawls,

Mickey Rooney,

Diana Ross,

The Animals (Eric Burden),

Mel Torme,

George Shearing,

Dusty Springfield His prolific writing includes scores for hit TV series and films:

TV Drama,

The Academy Awards,

The Karen Valentine Show,

Television specials for ABC,

Television specials for BBC in London and Copenhagen, Denmark

Theme for Bill Cosby's last TV show,

A french film 'Des Femmes Disparaissent" (Paris)

Golson made a cameo appearance in the 2004 movie The Terminal,

related to his appearance in the A Great Day in Harlem photo

He has written music for national radio and television spots for some of the major advertising agencies in the country. Some of these commercials were for: Borateem, Canada Dry, Carnation, Chevrolet, Chrysler, Clorox, Dodge, General Telephone, Gillette, Heinz Foods, Jack in The Box, Liquid Plum'r, MacDonald's, Mattel Toys, Monsanto, Nissan, Ohrbachs, Ore-Ida Frozen Potatoes, Parliament Cigarettes, Pepsi Cola, Texaco

Benny Golson has absolute mastery of the jazz medium. He has not only blazed a trail in the world of jazz but is passionate about teaching jazz to young and old alike.

He has lectured at the Lincoln Center through a special series by Wynton Marsalis.

He has lectured to doctoral candidates at New York University and to the faculty at National University at San Diego.

Honored with doctorates from William Paterson College, Wayne, NJ and Berklee School of Music, Boston, MA, Dr.

Golson has also conducted workshops and clinics at: Appalachian University, Boone,

NC Berklee School fo Music, Boston,

MA Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY

Howard University, Washington, DC

Julliard School of Music, New York,

NY Manhattan School of Music, New York, NY

New England Conservatory Paris Conservatory, Paris, France

University, New Orleans, LA

Stanford University, Stanford, CA

University of Denver, Denver, CO

University of Idaho, Moscow, ID

University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

Lawrence University Conservatory of Music, Appleton, WI

William Paterson College, Wayne, NJ

Golson's musical odyssey has taken him around the world. In 1987 he was sent by the US State Department on a cultural tour of Southeast Asia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Burma, Singapore. Later, Philip Morris International sent him on an assignment to Bangkok, Thailand to write music for the Bangkok Symphony Orchestra. A live performer who consistently knocks audiences off their feet, Benny Golson has given hundreds of performances in the USA, Europe, South America, the Far East and Japan for decades. Benny is also working on a major college textbook and his autobiography

This humble musical giant continues to impress critics, fans and fellow musicians with his prodigious contributions to the world of jazz.

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On "GG's Steamin Greens"

Saturday, December 18, 2010 @ 6:00 pm

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A Letter from Dr. Benny Golson

George,

Thank you for your impressive E-mail message and the enclosed photographs. It was great meeting you and hearing you. Though you had a comforting job
and an abundance of security as a conductor with The New Jersey Transit,
it's obvious your heart lies within the existing realm of the music we
lovingly call jazz. Few of us will ever get rich by engaging in this
pursuit, but our hearts will be overrun with joy and satisfaction for
having done it. Time cannot be so cruel as to keep us apart
indefinitely. So, onward and upward as we chase our dreams with a votive
and determined effort, in spite of all else, with an inelluctable
spirit of success concerning our proleptic tomorrows. We have no choice
but to HIT IT over and over again at every opportunity as faithful

visionaries letting no one or anything get in our way.

Noblesse Oblige,

Benny Golson