Lester Leaps In (for Lester Young); Body and Soul (for Coleman Hawkins); St. Thomas (for Sonny Rollins); Cry Me a River (for Dexter Gordon); My Favorite Things (for John Coltrane); Whisper Not (for ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Jazz great Benny Golson, a tenor saxophonist and composer of standards such as “Killer Joe” and “Along Came Betty," has died. He was 95. Golson died Saturday at his home in Manhattan ...

Killer Joe (Benny Golson); Work Song (Nat Adderley); Body and Soul * (Johnny Green); St. Thomas (Sonny Rollins); Syeeda’s Song Flute (John Coltrane); Mood Indigo; Along Came Betty; Mack The Knife ...

A giant of the hard bop era, saxophonist and composer Benny Golson originally hails from Philadelphia, Penn. He began studying piano at the age of 9, but was soon seduced by the tenor saxophone sounds ...

Saxophone player Benny Golson played with jazz greats Dizzy Gillespie and Art Blakey, and wrote music for the TV shows M*A*S*H and Mission Impossible. He talks about his role in reshaping Blakey's ...

Music brings us life; music shows us death. In his joshing, garrulous way, Benny Golson said as much in Washington 11 years ...

Benny Golson, a tenor saxophonist and composer who played with some of the biggest names in jazz and was a founder of one of the leading groups of the hard bop era, died =Saturday at his home in New ...

Jazz Bakery resembles a Hall of Fame this month, with Jon Hendricks checking in last week, Benny Golson holding forth this week and Mose Allison due next week. Each of these vet contributors to the ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! Philadelphia jazz great Benny Golson, a saxophonist and composer responsible for “I ...