one hundred page interview with Benson

markf · #1 01-30-2012, 01:28 PM

My friend sent me a link to this.

Smithsonian institute has a remarkable page at their website which is interviews with jazz players,

there is an interview with George Benson, a hundred pages of pdf. and a lot of others. also, mp3's cause the interviews were recorded.

lots of Benson fans here;

maybe he explains the "benson picking technique" in the interview

Oral Histories

markf · #2 01-30-2012, 01:33 PM

also interviews with Jim Hall, and Kenny Burrell

markf · #3 01-30-2012, 01:58 PM

Benny Golson interview: John, was John Coltrane.

Quote:

Talk about what you guys were trying to work out amongst yourselves, and if – did you work out of any books or particular lessons?
Golson: No, no, no. All the above. Mostly it was a blues, because that was an easy form. It was nothing involved, because we couldn’t play changes that well. But in our own way we were trying to improvise. I wasn’t very good. John was worse. But all we had was each other. There were no programs in high school. I was in high school. There were no programs. What we did in high school was always after school, and it was on a very low level. There were no jazz schools. There were no jazz books – transcribed solos. Nothing. Only thing we had were those 78 records.