George Benson: C/D; S/D

A number of years ago -- I wanna say early 80s -- some friends-of-a-friend lived next door to Alan Alda. They were having a graduation party in their back yard and playing tunes on a boombox. A George Benson song came on, and when Alan heard it, he showed up to the party with his visiting pal George Benson. They hung out at the party for the rest of the day/night, playing basketball with the kid

this is wild

Thanks a lot nomar! I'd forgotten about his version of 'On broadway', but never listened to the 'Weekend In L.A.' album before, sounds good from my quick listen.

I know I asked about uptempo stuff, but I really like his bluesy stuff when he's playing completely solo, as well , if you know of any thing like 'Ode To A Kudu" or 'From now on'? I need more of the intense scat heavy tracks like 'World is a ghetto' too. I guess it's the in-between sounding ones that don't do it for me, definitely not the sugary ballads.

Stevolende - I'm liking some of that All stars concert, i think what I'm finding with his own albums is that there's 2-3 tracks per album (from all eras) that I love but i really can't listen to the rest.

http://i.imgur.com/cHEtetL.gif

wow!!

whole video's pretty smooth! https://vimeo.com/24973023

TURN YOUR LOVE AROUUUUNNNNND

There's a whole long hilarious section about the writing of that song in that otherwise average Hired Gun documentary. Bill Champlin, Jay Graydon and Steve Lukather!

(Long story short, Graydon was charged with writing Benson a hit but was stumped, so he went to the bathroom and left it in the hands of Lukather. Lukather casually comes up with some chords and, on the toiler, Graydon, listening, comes up with the melody. Except I guess Graydon has an OCD compulsion to undress completely when he's on the toilet, so he had to hurry up and get dressed to get back to Lukather before he forgot the melody to go with the chords Lukather was playing!)

Came across this good clip of George Benson with Clark Terry on trumpet on ye' old YouTube a few weeks back. It's a pretty groovy version of "So What".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snCGxc4qK50

Clark Terry looking way more fly at age 68 than I will ever be on my best day.

Rad clip. Thanks for sharing! Loving all the seamless gear-shifting.

Oh yeah, this one is another really cool George Benson clip I found that has him jamming with Benny Goodman. This is one of those things you are glad the meeting happened and even more that it was filmed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfNljvp_CnI&feature=youtu.be

take 2...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfNljvp_CnI

Whoa, earl. Nice find!

Now where's the clip of George Washington Jr. and Woody Herman?

Except I guess Graydon has an OCD compulsion to undress completely when he's on the toilet

are you a shirtless shitter?

Grover Washington, good lord what's wrong with me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpjgOCp354U