George Benson News

Detroit -- When jazz musician George Benson performed at the Masonic Temple recently, a less sedate form of entertainment unfurled several floors above.

Jim Kanas, consummate jazz and folk guitarist, will perform with the Jim Kanas Trio at 7:30 p.m. Nov.

Critically acclaimed jazz vocalist, Michelle Walker, will perform in double bill concerts with jazz vocalist Sachal Vasandani while on tour with The Yakov Okun Trio in Russia from November 22-29th . Michelle has spent the past few years amassing an impressive musical resume of concert and festival performances, including The Lincoln Center-Women in ...

Smooth jazz guitarist and vocalist George Benson has donated an autographed guitar to support Culture Machine, a youth program that teaches music production and media literacy to inner city kids in New York and New Jersey.

Date : Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:50:02 +0400 WELL-KNOWN JAZZ MUSICIAN GEORGE BENSON'S FIRST VISIT TO ARMENIA Tert Nov 12 2009 Armenia The Grammy Award-winning jazz musician, guitarist and vocalist George Benson is finally in Yerevan.

Jazz for the Park , a fundraiser for Wilson Commencement Park, is in its fifth year and still attracting greats for the cause.

From : Katia Peltekian Date : Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:41:27 +0400 GEORGE BENSON TO PERFORM JAZZ IN YEREVAN Aysor Nov 12 2009 Armenia Tonight a guitar legend, Grammy Awarded American musician, singer and jazz guitarist George Benson will perform in Armenia's capital city of Yerevan.

From : Mihran Keheyian Date : Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:23:51 +0400 WORLD-FAMOUS GUITAR PLAYER AND SINGER GEORGE BENSON TO PERFORM CONCERT ON NOVEMBER 12 IN YEREVAN Noyan Tapan Nov 12, 2009 YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 12, NOYAN TAPAN.

Aureole "is a Las Vegas event restaurant airlifted into Manhattan, a corporate cafeteria with a soundtrack of smooth jazz in the George Benson style.

Smooth jazz guitarist and vocalist George Benson will appear on NBC's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon tonight, November 9, as a guest of the show's house band, the Roots .

"In bigger cities, smooth jazz is the music of choice for mature adults," she says.

It's a present Ameriabank gives jazz-lovers on occasion of opening of its head office.

YEREVAN, October 29, /ARKA/. Jazz legend George Benson will play and sing for Armenian music lovers in a November 12 concert, which is timed with the opening of the head office of Ameriabank The concert will take place in the framework of 10-th "Perspectives of the 21st century" international music festival held under the patronage of the Culture ...

Best known for conquering the pop and R&B charts in the 1970s with such hits as "Give Me the Night," "On Broadway" and "This Masquerade," guitarist and vocalist George Benson started his career firmly planted in the world of jazz while working with legends like Jack McDuff and Miles Davis.

It would seem that one of the musicians who'd suffer the most from the demise of the smooth jazz radio format would be singer/guitarist George Benson, but that would be putting him in too narrow a box, stylistically.

On his first proper US tour following the release of Agua Del Pozo , Alex Cuba took the stage backed by a strong band rounded out by Robert Johns and Robert diPietro , playing an extended set that showcased his intriguing mix of Afro-Cuban beats with jazz, funk and rock.

Along with contemporaries George Duke and George Benson, Patrice Rushen made a major transition from cutting respected acoustic jazz material to hitting the upper reaches of the club and R&B charts.

"I am the son of Spanish immigrants that left behind fascism in the 50's to start a new life in Australian democracy.

As a guitarist whose love for jazz music began in the '70s, I was understandably excited to hear a few months ago, from a most reliable source, that Thelonious Monk really dug guitarist George Benson ! Benson was probably the most popular jazz guitarist of the '70s and those who know about the place of the guitar in jazz history understand that he ...

Ask trumpeter Joey Morant who he's worked with, and he'll reel off a list of jazz legends including Lionel Hampton , George Benson and Dizzy Gillespie .