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Benny Golson January 25, — September 21, was an American bebop and hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and arranger.

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He came to prominence with the big bands of Lionel Hampton and Dizzy Gillespie , more as a writer than a performer, before launching his solo career. Golson was known for co-founding and co-leading The Jazztet with trumpeter Art Farmer in From the late s through the s Golson was in demand as an arranger for film and television and thus was less active as a performer, but he and Farmer re-formed the Jazztet in He is regarded as "one of the most significant contributors" to the development of hard bop jazz, and was a recipient of a Grammy Trustees Award in His mother Celadia brought the family up, working as a seamstress and a waitress.

After graduating from Howard University, Golson joined Bull Moose Jackson 's rhythm and blues band; [ 7 ] Tadd Dameron , whom Golson came to consider the most important influence on his writing, was Jackson's pianist at the time. Golson was working with the Lionel Hampton band at the Apollo Theater in Harlem in when he learned that Clifford Brown , a noted and well-liked jazz trumpeter who had done a stint with him in Dameron's band, [ 9 ] had died in a car accident.

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Golson was so moved by the event [ 10 ] that he composed the threnody " I Remember Clifford ", as a tribute to a fellow musician and friend. In addition to "I Remember Clifford", many of Golson's other compositions have become jazz standards. From to , Golson co-led the Jazztet with Art Farmer , [ 2 ] mainly playing his own compositions.

During the mids, Golson returned to jazz playing and recording. Golson played a cameo role in the movie The Terminal , related to his appearance in A Great Day in Harlem , a group photograph of prominent jazz musicians taken in Pianist Ray Bryant 's song "Something in B-Flat," which was included on Golson's debut album as a leader, Benny Golson's New York Scene , can be heard during a scene where Viktor is painting and redecorating part of an airport terminal; in a later scene, Golson's band performs "Killer Joe".

Golson's early playing has been described as "characterised by a distinctively fibrous, slightly hoarse tone Golson was married to Seville Golson; they had three sons, Odis, Reggie and Robert, and the marriage ended in divorce. Golson died, following a short illness, at his home in Manhattan, New York, on September 21, , at the age of