The Other Side Of Abbey Road (Remastered) George Benson

• 1 Golden Slumbers / You Never Give Me Your Money 04:47
• 2 Because / Come Together 07:26
• 3 Oh! Darling 04:01
• 4 Here Comes The Sun / I Want You (She's So Heavy) 09:00
• 5 Something / Octopus's Garden / The End 06:21
• Total Runtime 31:35

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George Benson – The Other Side Of Abbey Road – Jazz purists probably turned up their noses when this LP appeared in 1970. George Benson, influenced by Wes Montogmery, had only just gone from being a well-kept secret to a bright star in the celestial jazz firmament. Despite his tender age! His youthful, happy-go-lucky ways may well have led him and his producer Creed Taylor to turn to this important Beatles album and – without great pathos or standing in awe – they put the music through a mincer as it were, adding a large pinch of jazz spice and a good portion of strings and Latin percussion on the way, and serving up this tasty dish to jazz freaks and beatniks.

This compilation, which ranges from „Come Together“ to „The End,“ has lost nothing of its freshness and certainly need not shy away from comparison with the originals. These are no mere copies but little masterpieces in which the Fab Four’s immortal ideas have been taken up and remixed. George Benson’s singing is unobtrusive and reserved, knowing full-well that he cannot hope to compete with John and Paul – but as a guitarist he certainly can stand alongside George in every respect. The other soloists rank with Freddie Hubbard, Jerome Richardson and Herbie Hancock and offer a first-rate background in the arrangements from Don Sebesky.

George Benson, guitar, vocals
Bob James, acoustic piano, organ, harpsichord
Herbie Hancock, acoustic piano, organ, harpsichord
Ernie Hayes, acoustic piano, organ, harpsichord
Ron Carter, bass
Jerry Jemmott, bass
Idris Muhammad, drums
Ed Shaughnessy, drums
Ray Barretto, percussion
Don Ashworth, baritone saxophone
Sonny Fortune, alto saxophone
Jerome Richardson, tenor saxophone, clarinet, flute
Wayne Andre, trombone, euphonium
Freddie Hubbard, trumpet
Mel Davis, trumpet, flugelhorn

Recorded October 22–23 & November 4–5, 1969 at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs
Produced by Creed Taylor

Digitally remastered

Born on March 22, 1943 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Benson showed prodigious talent from an early age, winning a singing contest when he was only four years old and enjoying a short career as a child radio performer under the name of “Little Georgie Benson.” He started playing the guitar when he was eight, but it was as a vocalist that he spent much of his vast musical energy as a teenager, organizing and performing with a succession of rhythm-and-blues and rock bands around Pittsburgh. He made recordings for RCA Victor’s X Records subsidiary in the middle 1950s. But Benson’s stepfather encouraged his instrumental efforts by constructing a guitar for him, and in his late teens he began to concentrate exclusively on guitar. Seeking out the music of modern jazz’s golden age, he became more and more interested in jazz, and was particularly inspired by recordings of saxophonist Charlie Parker and guitarists Charlie Christian and Grant Green.

Discovered by John Hammond: In 1961 Benson jumped to the national stage when he joined the group backing jazz organist Jack McDuff. He played and recorded with McDuff for four years. Then he struck out on his own: he moved to New York City, then the capital of the jazz universe, and formed his own band. There Benson made two acquaintances who proved crucial in setting him on the path to jazz stardom: guitarist Wes Montgomery, whose soft tone and graceful octave playing provided Benson with his most important stylistic inspiration, and Columbia Records producer and executive John Hammond, whose unerring eye for talent brought

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