Superstition Jazz Orchestra

Tenor saxophonist, composer and arranger BENNY GOLSON gifted us with more than

six decades of wonderful music. His many compositions, including Along Came Betty,

Killer Joe, Whisper Not, Stablemates and I Remember Clifford, have become standards

in the jazz repertoire and have been recorded countless times over the years. From his

earliest performances with Tadd Dameron, Lionel Hampton and Art Blakey and the Jazz

Messengers, his unmistakable “fibrous and slightly hoarse” tone permeated the hard-bop era.

Golson recorded over 30 albums as a leader and numerous others as a sideman — all

while maintaining a fulltime career as a studio musician and composer. He contributed

music for television, i.e. Mash, Ironside, Mannix, Mission Impossible, which often

featured him playing on the sound tracks. Movie audiences remember Golson for his

cameo role in the Tom Hanks’ movie Terminal. Obsessed with the famous Art Kane

photograph of 57 jazz musicians, “1958 Jazz Portrait Harlem”, Hanks’ character sought to locate any of the musicians still alive. Benny was one of the two surviving musicians— the other being Sonny Rollins.

Please join the 19-piece Superstition Jazz Orchestra for an evening celebrating this

extraordinary jazz master in new arrangements written by SJO Director,

composer/multi-instrumentalist Mike Crotty. They promise to breathe new life into some

of Golson’s most familiar tunes, all the while maintaining the character and enormous

personality of this artist who “Whispered Not“.