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George Benson

06.07.2003

Live at Auditorium Stravinski

 

His deft left-hand guitar playing illuminated the hard-bop era, impressed Dexter Gordon, Freddie Hubbard, Herbie Hancock, and Miles - who incorporated the guitar into his group for him in 1967. More? His melodic force shaped the finest pages of rhythm'n'blues, his songs sublimated soul-pop ("Give Me The Night"), before he went back to the source in the tradition of the likes of Art Tatum or Wes Montgomery, whom he venerates. Although he incarnates smotth jazz, George Benson shows that he is - as on his latest album zo date, Absolute Benson - the goldsmith of melody lines in elite jazz. (FFJM © 2003)

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Founded by Claude Nobs in 1967, over the years the Montreux Jazz Festival has become an unmissable event for music fans in Switzerland and around the world. Its stages have been graced by all of music’s greats, from Miles Davis to Ray Charles and from David Bowie to Prince.

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