Just found out today about the passing of this jazz legend. It's a shame that his passing wasn't even a footnote on news programs. If one of the non entities that pass for musicians died it would be the talk all over for months. Rest In Peace Mr. Golson😢😢😢
RIP to this legend...for the last month i have been playing nothing but Jazz greats on wax starting my every morning out with Solitude by Sir Duke followed by Mr. Golson...thanks for all the great compositions Benny
Heard Sonny here in Newark, 2011. What a JOY. And Benny Golson , for writing this haunting, fittingly SO-GOGOEUS, BEAUTIFUL song -- for Clifford. YES. THANKS, BENNY!- Thanks for posting this. ❤
Such a wonderful song “I Remember Clifford Brown” by Benny Golson but sad story of how he accidentally lost his life that rainy night while the woman attempted to pass the huge truck sprayed water from it’s tires blinding the windshield rolled off the road at a slight turn down to the bridge. All three lost their life. Alas, alas,alas!
People may not believe me but. Benny loaned a copy of the song to a musician friend who let me borrow it so I could copy it. Benny had exquisite penmanship.
He had a son. A drummer who studied with Elvin Jones. Reggie became my musical friend.I played bass and originally guitar unfortunately Reggie Pennsylvania rather young and then he doesn’t like to talk about it even in his autobiography he doesn’t mention about veggie haven’t passed away so I must’ve heard him greatly
Such a treasure story by tenor saxophonist Benny Golson of the lost of a friend and musicians, Clifford Brown, Richard Powell, and his wife. Forever we will keep their lives and legacy centered fore narrative. Uhuru Preston J. Cole
8:14 That explains it, he say's he would write two songs a day back then, no wonder i keep finding songs that Golson wrote, but wasn't the first to record what he wrote. He wrote so much he could possible record them all. Musically Volitile
Thank you, Benny, R.I.P. I grew up in Wilmington, Delaware and frequented the jazz clubs in Philly, especially The Blue Note, The Clef Club and Pep's. I always loved Clifford Brown and this song really gets to me. In the Jazz world, the news of his death was as bad as the death of JFK. It will always be that way. What a story teller!
Benny Golson joined Jon Batiste and his band Stay Human a few nights ago on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert. They played a lot of Benny’s well known compositions like Killer Joe.
Thanks for nailing it. That's the best possible description of the jazz community's enduring view of Clifford's death. It remains raw all these years later, even for those who weren't alive at the time. It's JFK. That's it. I hung out with Clifford's widow, LaRue, once (she was still youthful in the late 1980's when I played with Illinois Jacquet on the Norway jazz cruise). If your analogy had occurred to me at the time, I'd have offered it to her, and I have no doubt she'd have really dug it.
