{"artistName":"Benny Golson","artistId":83667,"artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/1fe/1fe54d771df45de7c9ed72a028d57436_xl.jpg","srcset":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/1fe/1fe54d771df45de7c9ed72a028d57436_sm.jpg 50w,https://artist99.cdn107.com/1fe/1fe54d771df45de7c9ed72a028d57436_md.jpg 80w,https://artist99.cdn107.com/1fe/1fe54d771df45de7c9ed72a028d57436_lg.jpg 200w,https://artist99.cdn107.com/1fe/1fe54d771df45de7c9ed72a028d57436_xl.jpg 340w","artistBio":"\u003cp\u003eBenny Golson (born January 25, 1929) is an American bebop/hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and arranger. While in high school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Golson played with several other promising young musicians, including John Coltrane, Red Garland, Jimmy Heath, Percy Heath, Philly Joe Jones, and Red Rodney. After graduating from Howard University Golson joined Bull Moose Jackson's rhythm and blues band; Tadd Dameron, whom Golson came to consider the most important influence on his writing, was Jackson's pianist at the time.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 1953 to 1959 Golson played with Dameron's band and then with the bands of Lionel Hampton, Johnny Hodges, Earl Bostic, Dizzy Gillespie, and Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGolson was working with the Lionel Hampton band at the Apollo Theater in Harlem in 1956 when he learned that Clifford Brown, a noted and well-liked jazz trumpeter who had done a stint with him in Hampton's band, had died in a car accident. Golson was so moved by the event that he composed the threnody \"I Remember Clifford\", as a tribute to a fellow musician and friend.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGolson has composed several other jazz standards, such as \"Stablemates\", \"Killer Joe\", \"Whisper Not\", \"Along Came Betty\" and \"Are You Real?\", that have gone on to be performed and recorded by many musicians.\u003c/p\u003e","musicPath":"/music/Benny+Golson","playStationPath":"/stations/269118363/play","stationId":269118363,"bioPath":"/music/Benny+Golson/_full_bio","similars":[{"musicPath":"/music/Donald+Byrd","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/d88/d883a907ab18382d38ded804ccb79281_md.jpg","artistName":"Donald Byrd","artistId":13280,"station_id":113264062},{"musicPath":"/music/Horace+Silver+Quintet","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/237/237602fa1302dda14526c5a64ce9ce64_md.jpg","artistName":"Horace Silver Quintet","artistId":364035,"station_id":394267388},{"musicPath":"/music/Miles+Davis+Quintet","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/bb5/bb5890d532cb48f4399046812f31b180_md.jpg","artistName":"Miles Davis Quintet","artistId":1291,"station_id":113373465},{"musicPath":"/music/Ron+Carter","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/d12/d12ce137ebde83fc5e207c89bcc22b48_md.jpg","artistName":"Ron Carter","artistId":12354,"station_id":113565709},{"musicPath":"/music/Cedar+Walton","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/ca7/ca7bf734b4f1dbf533540bd80e0da365_md.jpg","artistName":"Cedar Walton","artistId":103561,"station_id":280764457},{"musicPath":"/music/Charlie+Rouse","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/6d4/6d41d599211c0a5c2033267fb297052e_md.jpg","artistName":"Charlie Rouse","artistId":122332,"station_id":283792989},{"musicPath":"/music/Roy+Hargrove","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/99d/99d49c772260e263d44705ec3d722417_md.jpg","artistName":"Roy Hargrove","artistId":2440,"station_id":113897239},{"musicPath":"/music/Joe+Henderson","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/c62/c6297dc82ed71dcbbefa472a169b405f_md.jpg","artistName":"Joe Henderson","artistId":94304,"station_id":275722631},{"musicPath":"/music/Shelly+Manne","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/989/989dcd1958bd438902f267705682711e_md.jpg","artistName":"Shelly Manne","artistId":101372,"station_id":280763703},{"musicPath":"/music/Oscar+Peterson","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/af5/af5b5fb0edb78896eb9be0aaa1fd77bc_md.jpg","artistName":"Oscar Peterson","artistId":6854,"station_id":113299895},{"musicPath":"/music/McCoy+Tyner","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/931/9313b844c8f876f8859f9da5200baa19_md.jpg","artistName":"McCoy Tyner","artistId":1901,"station_id":113310383},{"musicPath":"/music/Hank+Jones","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/e13/e13bb1b8186659727cd0b75c986783fa_md.jpg","artistName":"Hank Jones","artistId":102234,"station_id":279479368},{"musicPath":"/music/Ahmad+Jamal","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/b4b/b4b9347010d98347d0f0c2e2e4bea441_md.jpg","artistName":"Ahmad Jamal","artistId":1097,"station_id":113758986},{"musicPath":"/music/Tommy+Flanagan","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/904/904f3766059236457e14c66583168727_md.jpg","artistName":"Tommy Flanagan","artistId":3712,"station_id":113345385},{"musicPath":"/music/Bobby+Hutcherson","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/1f6/1f6cd28343ae32efcf086557addd59f0_md.jpg","artistName":"Bobby Hutcherson","artistId":13269,"station_id":115638904},{"musicPath":"/music/Lee+Konitz","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/043/043e93b3b67ac7bd13c513b9a165818f_md.jpg","artistName":"Lee Konitz","artistId":14172,"station_id":115267881},{"musicPath":"/music/Yusef+Lateef","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/d4c/d4c1b6b146a74aac5f2d5568818da5fa_md.jpg","artistName":"Yusef Lateef","artistId":100814,"station_id":280763301},{"musicPath":"/music/Thelonious+Monk","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/566/566078849b8f67581f586e79c90eab4a_md.jpg","artistName":"Thelonious Monk","artistId":782,"station_id":266311725}]}