{"id":8821,"date":"2017-11-13T00:40:47","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T08:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=8821"},"modified":"2017-11-13T10:34:58","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T18:34:58","slug":"monday-recommendation-benny-golson-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2017\/11\/monday-recommendation-benny-golson-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Recommendation: Benny Golson &#038; Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-8823\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Golson-CU-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Golson-CU-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Golson-CU-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Golson-CU-200x200.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>To the best of the &lt;em&gt;Rifftides&lt;\/em&gt; staff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s recollection, this is the first time the blog\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Monday Recommendation has been a stand-alone video. The choice was inspired by the stellar makeup of the band involved, the enjoyment the musicians found in playing one of Benny Golson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most loved compositions and how they made it obvious that they were digging one another\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s work. Golson (pictured left) is the tenor saxophonist and leader with Art Farmer, flumpet; Niels-Henning \u00c3\u02dcrsted Pedersen, bass; Milt Jackson, vibes; Ulf Wakenius, guitar; and the young &#8220;\u00ad&#8221;\u00adDanish drummer Jonas Johansen. This was at the 1997 JazzBaltica festival in Salzau, Germany. Golson introduces his tune.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fEG09imI4-I\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Thanks to Lester Perkins of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jazzonthetube.com\/content\/su1.html\">Jazz On The Tube<\/a> for calling that performance to our attention.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the best of the &lt;em&gt;Rifftides&lt;\/em&gt; staff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s recollection, this is the first time the blog\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Monday Recommendation has been a stand-alone video. The choice was inspired by the stellar makeup of the band involved, the enjoyment the musicians found in playing one of Benny Golson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most loved compositions and how they made it obvious that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8821","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-recommendations","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}