| Horizon Ahead | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Benny Golson |
| Cover: | Horizon Ahead.jpg |
| Released: | April 15, 2016 |
| Recorded: | December 7, 2015 |
| Studio: | The Samurai Hotel Recording Studio, Astoria, NY |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Length: | 54:53 |
| Label: | HighNote HCD 7288 |
| Producer: | Benny Golson |
| Chronology: | Benny Golson |
| Prev Title: | New Time, New 'Tet |
| Prev Year: | 2008 |
Horizon Ahead is an album by saxophonist/composer Benny Golson that was recorded in 2015 and released on the HighNote label the following year.[1] [2]
All About Jazz's Jack Bowers stated "At age eighty-seven, saxophonist Benny Golson is one of the last surviving links to the Golden Age of modern jazz... If time has dulled Golson's razor-sharp mind or degraded his admirable technique, it's certainly not apparent on Horizon Ahead, on which Golson is in total command of a much-more-youthful rhythm section ... Benny Golson not only keeps working but showing a younger generation that when it comes to contemporary jazz, maturity and experience are dependable allies in the ongoing battle with Father Time. It is, of course, a battle that can never be won, but Golson proves on Horizon Ahead that when his time comes, he'll definitely go down swinging".[3]
JazzTimes' Evan Haga observed "Neither blowing session nor conceptual work, Horizon Ahead is simply terrific".[4]
All compositions by Benny Golson except where noted