Horizon Ahead
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{{Infobox album
| name = Horizon Ahead
| type = Album
| artist = Benny Golson
| cover = Horizon Ahead.jpg
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| released = April 15, 2016
| recorded = December 7, 2015
| venue =
| studio = The Samurai Hotel Recording Studio, Astoria, NY
| genre = Jazz
| length = 54:53
| label = HighNote
HCD 7288
| producer = Benny Golson
| chronology = Benny Golson
| prev_title = New Time, New 'Tet
| prev_year = 2008
| next_title =
| next_year =
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Horizon Ahead is an album by saxophonist/composer Benny Golson that was recorded in 2015 and released on the HighNote label the following year.[http://www.jazzdepot.com/b_golson/7288.html Jazz Depot: HighNote discography] accessed February 26, 2019[https://www.bennygolson.com/discography.html Benny Golson website: discography] accessed February 26, 2019
Reception
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| rev1 = All About Jazz
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All About Jazz's Jack Bowers stated "At age eighty-seven, saxophonist Benny Golson is one of the last surviving links to the Golden Age of modern jazz... If time has dulled Golson's razor-sharp mind or degraded his admirable technique, it's certainly not apparent on Horizon Ahead, on which Golson is in total command of a much-more-youthful rhythm section ... Benny Golson not only keeps working but showing a younger generation that when it comes to contemporary jazz, maturity and experience are dependable allies in the ongoing battle with Father Time. It is, of course, a battle that can never be won, but Golson proves on Horizon Ahead that when his time comes, he'll definitely go down swinging".Bowers, J., [https://www.allaboutjazz.com/horizon-ahead-benny-golson-oa2-records-review-by-jack-bowers.php All About Jazz Review], accessed February 22, 2019
JazzTimes' Evan Haga observed "Neither blowing session nor conceptual work, Horizon Ahead is simply terrific".Haga, E., [https://jazztimes.com/reviews/albums/benny-golson-horizon-ahead/ JazzTimes Review], accessed February 22, 2019
Track listing
All compositions by Benny Golson except where noted
- "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" (Duke Ellington, Bob Russell) – 6:16
- "Jump Start" – 3:10
- "Horizon Ahead" – 6:03
- "Mood Indigo" (Ellington, Barney Bigard, Irving Mills) – 4:16
- "Domingo" – 8:41
- "Lulu's Back In Town" (Harry Warren, Al Dubin) – 4:40
- "Night Shade" – 5:28
- "Three Little Words" (Harry Ruby, Bert Kalmar) – 5:57
- Spoken introduction – 2:39
- "Out of the Darkness, and Into the Light" (Carl Allen) – 7:43
Personnel
=Production=
- Joe Fields – executive producer
- Dennis Wall – engineer
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