Benny Golson

The Modern Touch

Benny Golson - The Modern Touch

12/19/1957 | Ojc 

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All Music Guide Review

Benny Golson's second album as a leader (reissued on CD in the OJC series) is a solid hard bop date featuring the tenorman in a quintet with trumpeter Kenny Dorham, pianist Wynton Kelly, bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Max Roach. The all-star group performs three Golson originals (none of which really caught on), a pair of Gigi Gryce tunes (best known is "Hymn to the Orient") and the standard "Namely You." Excellent playing on an above-average set that defines the modern mainstream of 1957 jazz. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

The Modern Touch Track Listing

  • Track#
  • Title
  • time
  • lyrics
  • 1
  • Out of the Past
  • 6:22
  • Sound Clip for Out of the Past from The Modern Touch


  • 2
  • Reunion
  • 7:14
  • Sound Clip for Reunion from The Modern Touch


  • 3
  • Venetian Breeze
  • 5:38
  • Sound Clip for Venetian Breeze from The Modern Touch


  • 4
  • Hymn to the Orient
  • 4:07
  • Sound Clip for Hymn to the Orient from The Modern Touch


  • 5
  • Namely You
  • 4:42
  • Sound Clip for Namely You from The Modern Touch


  • 6
  • Blues on Down
  • 11:34
  • Sound Clip for Blues on Down from The Modern Touch


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