A Master Class in Playing Jazz with Saxophonist Benny Golson: a Performance of "Along Came Betty"

[@dwhiz11]

"Killer Joe" , in my humble opinion, ranks right up there with Miles' "All Blues" as among the coolest Jazz compositions ever since I heard it on my copy of the Benny Golson/Art Farmer septet many years ago. It never goes out of style, and this version is terrific!! Benny is a true artist!!

[@myingratealbinochild4825]

Not only does Benny play great, but he speaks beautifully.

[@realbro5548]

+1! A very entertaining & captivating gentleman

[@frednormanguitarist6603]

Thank you, Benny Golson and AHM! This is STILL my favorite composition of Benny's. I lived in Europe in the 90s and I saw Benny in a nice jazz club near the German city of Ingolstadt called, "Birdland". I don't remember everyone who was in the group, but it was at least a quintet or sextet, but I DO remember the guitarist - it was Kenny Burrell. Benny asked the audience if they would like to hear one of his compositions and immediately I yelled, "Along Came Betty", and they played it. Benny Golson and Kenny Burrell in the same group...WOW!!! Benny, if you're watching, I recently added my solo-guitar rendition of your tune on my KZbin channel. I hope you like it...do you remember being in Ingolstadt when I saw you that night?

[@akayrk]

he's such a great storyteller. love him!

[@mariolongo7369]

Benny Golson! Among my favorites musicians 🎷❤

[@markbridwell8972]

This has gotta be Benny's most diverse & interesting solo on his own tune .

[@effsixteenblock50]

I love this tune and it's great to hear BG let us in on the back story. I know some folks like to do it in a latin style but I feel it so much more when it's swingin!

[@jean-lucbersou758]

A "SWEET CONVERSATION" ......and "ALONG CAME BEAUTY !!!!" Thanks it's so great !!

[@kltan7261]

Such a great composition. The genius of Benny Golson...

[@tomsmith522]

A gentleman and a fine musician....🎶🎷🎵👏

[@RonWeberdrjazz]

The drummer is Ocie Davis; pianist Fredrick Sanders; bassist David Pulphus.

[@rmoraespinto]

Slurring, cool playing by master composer and sax player BG! Thanks for up!

[@Dmajorjazz]

Very nice. Thanks for sharing such a great treasure.

[@martyg374]

Brilliant tune and playing by Benny

[@musiquesdereve188]

Great song , learned in a lot of school, the story is also unique thanks for sharing itjpascal

[@eadgbepodcast]

This is great!! Thank you!

[@Solvi27]

Loving the bass solo in Along Came Betty!

[@Samyham007]

That bass player is amazing!!

[@beeshor1]

Your statement says it all, pretty much. If you've never felt jazz or understood it, you will likely never get there. It's cool. I'm sure there is music that you do dig. Like some hip cat once said...."Everything ain't for everybody".

[@charlesbarry6730]

One of the great jazz composers.

[@saxophonemechanic5454]

These guys are masters, accolades!

[@SvenSveetheart]

I always thought the song was about Betty Carter. Now I know the real story.

[@muhammadshakoor8745]

Me too because she was the only Betty(my favorite) I knew in Jazz 🎶

[@tomcooper1103]

I just love it, was dads dj when i was younger learned to enjoy good tunes.

[@TheKierensaysmaybe]

It is simply tension and release brother, nothing more nothing less. He's speaking to you, and you've just got to listen to him.

[@leoray1234]

As Louis Armstrong was quoted, 'if you gotta ask, you'll never know'..haha. But to try to put it in a nutshell, jazz is an american artform developed originally in new orleans that is based on individual improvisation over a musical structure. The structure can be anything from a 12-bar blues, to a 32-bar jazz standard, or a song from american popular culture...or really any song! Good jazz, like all good music, requires musicians with sensitive and sympathetic ears, and a similar audience.

[@jazz4asahel]

Along Came Betty Pritchett. Benny Golson: what a guy.

[@djandersonny]

+Ben Tunnicliffe Yes, that’s some fine bass playing from David Pulphus, I’m glad you found out about him. Do you know who's on piano & drums? David Pulphus' site mentions the DVD which was produced from this Master Class, but he doesn't say who the other guys are. I love the look on Benny's face as he's digging the piano solo on Along Came Betty @ about 9:41.

[@willyounts3308]

Not sure if you're still wondering, but on drums is the great Ocie Davis.

[@SchmidtBo87]

Yeah, and think about how many styles are inspired by jazz! I actually can't think of any that isn't. I even heard like Black Metal musicians saying their had their formal foundations in jazz!

[@BnBMusicLessons]

Awesome.

[@skatersaxman]

Great Tone

[@boomerang905]

Betty must have been something but Bobbie is even better because she shares a life with such a passionate man.

[@leoray1234]

Actually, I think I'd take one step further back and talk about the influence of the blues on both jazz, rock, and gospel!

[@simon12332]

Bassist manhandles that thing

[@cjfl1962]

Anyone know kinda of neck strap he is using?

[@raefblack7906]

Definitely a clever individual.

[@AllisonMarquis]

Piano player got in the way of Benny's solo in the second tune

[@norabiddogz8673]

They were trading fours.

[@trestresbrel]

Le jazz est mon paradis

[@coporal4]

Yes

[@guanoleicester]

Blue 'n' Boogie starts at: 17:39

[@luisfernando-mm3jt]

Muito bom

[@Zxx459]

Great stories...back then before 60s there was much more real clubs of jazz NO STARBUCKS OR SPORT BARS

[@atks2206]

whose the drummer? real swingin'!

[@stangilmer]

Bad Cat baby.

[@elviraseger98]

who's in the band? more then benny.

[@BruntPixels1234]

30:51 killer Joe.

[@timothyhunter2325]

Oh Yeah.....

[@DeronePugh]

It is the best music...lol

[@makkreol]

I thought that was really good comping !

[@joeklinck]

Jazz is the blues. Like Charles Mingus said "Charlie Parker was a blues player".

[@joeklinck]

***** Yes and no. Jazz uses the scales that are used in the blues but it also uses many others. It's more about what you're saying with the music than it is about what scales or notes you're playing. And in that sense they're very similar. Jazz is like a more harmonically and rhythmically complex version of the blues. The blues form is used in jazz very often, for example the Charlie Parker tune "Billie's Bounce".

[@BlueinGreen2]

Not sure if I like the recording placement of him. He's right up close in both ears. Swings hard but struggling to hear Benny.

[@seamothboy]

ok, i'm going to risk everyone's wrath. i always find benny's compositions a bit odd and uninspiring. however, that always changes when i hear him playing them, and then they make perfect sense

[@skatersaxman]

Well do something else

[@janiceparker1297]

How can a great player forget about his whole family back home in Pennsylvania !! I'm puzzled and I always heard about this man and never met him but money is the root of all evil so he probably thought we were going to ask for it all . Never turn you back on your family because at the end you have to be judged by the almighty for your sins !! A man we never met sad.

[@JS-dt1tn]

what are you even talking about

[@janiceparker1297]

I am one of many grands who always wanted to meet the jazz man Benny Golson. I'm 49yrs old and never or he never came to meet none of us.

[@pedroramos6472]

Family is important but how hard have you tried to meet him is my question no judgment but it takes two and being that he has committed his life to his craft this is a reason maybe he hasn’t reached out