Benny Golson discography explained

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

• 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)
• (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)