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The 77-year-old guitarist discussed about all the musicians who molded and guided him and how he learned to deal to criticisms as he releases his first live album in 30 years.
George Benson means different to a lot of people, but he’s pure jazz musician. The singer/guitarist has ventured into pop, R&B, soul and jazz, gaining success while also learning how to live to all the criticisms on the evolution of his sound and music as his career progress.
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| Check George Benson's awesome guitar playing here! |
George Benson's career has been elevated by his passionate creative vision and connection with musical influences that contributed to his development. He started out seventy years ago and started learning to play on a ukulele in his hometown Pittsburgh, the place where majority of the elite Black musician came: Art Blakey, Lena Horne, Ray Brown, Paul Chambers to name a few. In a recent interview, he fondly remembered how Eddie Jefferson, recognized his own talent for vocals while performing, and prompted the 8 years old George Benson's, to sing “I’ve Got the Blues.”
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| Check George Benson's awesome guitar playing here! |
George Benson headed to places like New York after Pittsburgh. George Benson said. “It had a lot of musicians there who were trying to make a career and outplay each other.”
Through the years, George Benson collaborated with great and diverse lists of artists such Freddie Hubbard and Minnie Riperton, and later with Mary J. Blige, Jill Scott and Gorillaz. It was the release of his three-times-platinum album “Breezin’” that brought him his greatest success. It was a rare achievement for a dominant instrumental record to make the pop and R&B charts then, but critics still offended with his early ascension into smooth jazz.
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