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Info: Biography, Pictures, Discography of all CDs & DVDs |
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| March 1943, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.Happened in March 2003'.Top Sellers
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What Was That Song?Collaborators during his career included guitarists George Benson and Mark Whitfield
and horn player Red Holloway.He traveled last year with a recreation of Heatin' System that featured horn players
Andrew Beals and Jerry Weldon, guitarist John Hart and drummer Rudy Petschauer.Minneapolis of an apparent heart attack after having suffered a
series of strokes in recent months.Dave Specter, who recorded the 1996 album Left Turn on Blue with McDuff.He loved playing the blues.After serving in
the U.Denny Zeitlin and reedman Joe Farrell, and also led his own band.McDuff taught himself to
play the keyboard, and formed a new group in 1959.He made his Prestige Records debut the
following year, Jack McDuff Plays for Beautiful People.He moved to Minneapolis in 1988 to be with her.McDuff remained very active until suffering from strokes in 2000, and had recorded a
new album for Concord in 2000, which has yet to be released.Whitfield performed at a New York benefit for the stricken McDuff, which filled the venue
to capacity.Jack McDuff, who will be buried in Minneapolis, is survived by his wife, Kathy Ann
McDuff; and his stepchildren Lisa and Ricky Johnson.The cause was a heart attack, said his manager, John
McCauley.McDuff, sometimes nicknamed Brother or Captain, was
born Eugene McDuffy in Champaign, Ill.He took up the organ only when a club owner asked him if he could play it, and
he learned to play for fear of losing a job.He is survived by his wife,
Kathy Ann, and two stepchildren, Alesia Johnson and Rikki Davenport, all of Minneapolis.McDuff began as a bassist playing with Denny Zeitlin and Joe
Farrell.Willis Jackson in the late '50s and early '60s, cutting high caliber soul jazz dates for
Prestige.They made a pair of outstanding albums, Tough
Duff and The Honeydripper.McDuff organized his own band the next year,
featuring Harold Vick and drummer Joe Dukes.Newman, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Sonny
Stitt and Gene Ammons.His work with Benson has also been reissued on CD.Joey DeFrancesco and Winston Walls.Illinois who remember him
fondly.McDuff retained an audience by turning for a
while to electronic keyboards.George Benson is a jazz guitarist born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1943.Benson's next recording was It's Uptown with the George Benson Quartet with Lonnie Smith on organ and Ronnie Cuber on baritone sax.This album showcases Benson's talent in constructing swinging bebop lines at blistering tempos.This album represents a shift to more commercially oriented music which brought Benson a wider audience but alienated some jazz fans.Benson continues to play outstanding jazz guitar, as evidenced on recordings such as Jimmy Smith's Off the Top, Benson's own live album Par Excellence, and Tenderly, on which Benson is accompanied by McCoy Tyner on piano.For his contribution to the recording industry, George Benson has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7055 Hollywood Blvd.The World Is a Ghetto is one of my gems!We're conducting a survey and would like your input.Web Site Support
Last.Hammond hero Jack McDuff and guitarist George Benson!Nelson had been bumping around a variety of sessions...The album's mostly a spare batch of tracks cut by Alice and her trio with R...Gordon's famous early work on the Central Avenue scene in LA, or Ammo...Houston Person blowing with a group that includes Pre...Are we missing anything?Click here to make a suggestion.Dusty Groove America, Inc.Unverifiable material may be challenged and removed."Give Me The Night", "Lady Love Me (One More Time)", "Turn Your Love Around", "In Your Eyes" and "This Masquerade", among others.Early career
Benson was born and raised in the Hill District in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and attended the defunct Connelly High School and dropped out.At the age of 21, Benson recorded his first album as leader, The New Boss Guitar, with Brother Jack McDuff on organ.Miles Davis employed Benson's talents in the mid 1960s; Benson played guitar on "Paraphernalia," which appeared on the trumpeter's 1967 Columbia release, Miles in the Sky.He went to Verve Records for a spell afterwards.Benson also did his versions of The Beatles' 1969 album Abbey Road which he entitled, The Other Side Of Abbey Road (also released in 1969) and "White Rabbit" (originally written and recorded by San Francisco rockgroup Jefferson Airplane) around this time.By the mid to late 1970s, as he recorded for Warner Bros.Records (he had recently signed with them), a whole new audience began to discover Benson for the first time.He was part of psychedelic soul group Harlem Underground Band during the 1970s, whos much sampled song "Smokin' Cheeba Cheeba" was featured on Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, playing on Rare groove station Mastersounds 98.On the strength of "This Masquerade" (it won a Grammy Award for Record of the Year) and the electrifying live take of the classic "On Broadway" recorded about a year later (from the 1977 release Weekend in L.Benson accumulated three other platinum LPs and two gold albums.In 1992, Benson appeared on Jack McDuff's Colour Me Blue album.He played during the 2nd Monsoon Cup in Terengganu in 2006 and also Malaysia's 50th Merdeka celebration alongside Al Jarreau in 2007.The track plays as one of the protagonists, named Jin, helps a woman escape from an Edo era Japanese brothel.Title track sample from George Benson's Breezin' album
Problems listening to the file?Sample track from George Benson's Breezin' album (1976)
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