![]() ![]() Straight Life is probably Freddie Hubbard’s finest recording a seventeen minute Latin jazz masterpiece. ![]() This Wayne Shorter composition is the first Miles recording to feature a guitarist, and Benson’s hugely influential performance alongside Miles’ second great quintet of Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Tony Williams, brings an urgency and groove to the recording that shows the way forward to Miles’ In A Silent Way sessions just one year later. Miles Davis was looking for new sounds and textures in the post bop era to move the music on that would eventually lead to his breakthroughs in jazz rock fusion. His recorded first album as a leader ‘The New Boss Guitar‘ for Prestige with MacDuff’s band, and from that moment onwards things developed very quickly. ![]() He was eventually grounded and his guitar was impounded by his father while he spent time in a juvenile detention centre.Ī fan of jazz guitar players Charlie Christian & Tal Farlow – as well as the ever-versatile Hank Garland – Benson met organist Jack McDuff whilst still at high school and started playing in his band, recording 5 albums between 1963-65. He started very young indeed he was playing in an unlicensed nightclub by the time he was eight years old, and a year later recorded a single for Groove Records. With a voice as recognisable as his guitar style he has excelled in a variety of popular genres with record sales in the millions while always staying true to himself – a remarkable feat. ![]() This article was written by Adam Sieff, a jazz guy, blues fanatic, country picker, soul man, a rock ‘n’ roll doctor from the college of musical knowledge inoculated with a phonograph needle.īorn on the 22nd March, 1943 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, George Benson is one of the most important and influential guitarists in jazz music. ![]()
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