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Groovin' With Golson

Benny Golson

Recorded	Aug 28, 1959
Label	New Jazz
Catalog	NJLP 8220
Released	1959
Personnel	5 credited players
Discogs	master 298833

The record

Bryant's bluesy comping and Blakey's driving kit work push this New Jazz-era pairing of tenor and trombone along at a steady simmer. Golson's tunes here already carry the melodic clarity that would mark his Jazztet and Messengers writing soon after.

Session personnel

Paul Chambers — bass
Art Blakey — drums
Ray Bryant — piano
Benny Golson — tenor saxophone
Curtis Fuller — trombone

Contemporary reception

No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.

Pressings

Showing the first pressing, audiophile reissues and copies carrying a collector marker, out of 33 pressings on file.

1959	New Jazz · NJLP 8220 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Microgroove earliest on file
1986	Original Jazz Classics · OJC-226 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Reissue, Purple Labels OJC
1986	Original Jazz Classics · OJC-226 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Reissue, Red Labels OJC
2017	New Jazz · NJLP 8220 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Numbered, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo, 200g Analogue Productions
2022	New Jazz · NJLP 8220 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Repress, Stereo, 200 gram Analogue Productions
2023	New Jazz · 8220 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Repress, Stereo, 180g Analogue Productions
1962	New Jazz · NJLP 8220 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress, Mono · deep groove
1964	New Jazz · NJLP 8220 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono · deep groove; RVG stamp; laminated sleeve
—	New Jazz · NJLP 8220 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono, Deep groove · deep groove; RVG stamp
1960	Esquire · 32-105 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Microgroove
1961	Bel Air · 331.004 — Vinyl, LP, Album
1972	New Jazz · 8220 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono
1981	Prestige
1981	New Jazz · SMJ-6296 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono