Artist
George Benson
George Benson is a jazz artist from Pittsburgh, US formed in 1964. 79 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Jazz · Pittsburgh, US · Best jazz albums
- 79
- Releases
- 1964–2024
- Active years
- 1964
- Formed
Artist
George Benson is a jazz artist from Pittsburgh, US formed in 1964. 79 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Jazz · Pittsburgh, US · Best jazz albums
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Give Me the Night
1980 · 10 tracks
The George Benson Collection
1981
Breezin'
1976
20/20
1985
In Flight
1977
In Your Eyes
1983
Absolute Benson
2000
Livin' Inside Your Love
1979
Bad Benson
1974
The Essential George Benson
2006
Love Remembers
1993
Twice the Love
1988
I Got a Woman and Some Blues
1984
Tenderly
1989
While the City Sleeps...
1986
The Other Side of Abbey Road
1969
Big Boss Band
1990
Goodies
1969
Giblet Gravy
1968
White Rabbit
1971
Beyond the Blue Horizon
1971
Good King Bad
1976
Tell It Like It Is
1969
The George Benson Cookbook
1966
Body Talk
1989
Dreams Do Come True: When George Benson Meets Robert Farnon (feat. The Robert Farnon Orchestra)
2024
Light The Dawn (Live New York '75)
2022
Walking to New Orleans
2019
Compact Jazz: George Benson
2018
Muhammed Ali in "The Greatest"
2016
Benson Burner
2016
The Ultimate Collection
2015
George Benson: Verve Ultimate Cool
2013
The Silver Collection
2013
Doin' The Thing
2012
Guitar Man
2011
White Rabbit (CTI Records 40th Anniversary Edition)
2011
Classic Love Songs
2010
Top Of The World: The Best Of George Benson
2010
Songs and Stories
2009
Collections
2008
The Shape Of Things To Come
2007
100 ans de jazz
2007
Columbia Jazz Profile
2007
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George Benson & Jack McDuff [2-fer]
2007
Givin' It Up
2006
The New Boss Guitar
2006
Guitar & Bass
2004
Irreplaceable
2003
The Very Best of George Benson: The Greatest Hits of All
2003
Jazz Moods - Hot
2001
Anthology
2000
Standing Together
1998
Sony Jazz Collection
1997
Talkin' Verve
1997
That's Right
1996
This Is Jazz
1996
This Is Jazz #9
1996
Sony Jazz Portrait
1996
The Best of George Benson
1995
Best of George Benson: The Instrumentals
1995
Benson & Farrell
1995
Verve Jazz Masters 21: George Benson
1994
Midnight Moods
1991
The Best Of Benson
1989
Best of George Benson
1989
George Benson In Concert--Carnegie Hall
1988
Love for Sale
1984
Pacific Fire
1983
Space
1978
Weekend in L.A.
1978
Erotic Moods
1978
Collaboration
1970
George Benson - The Best
1969
Shape of Things to Come
1969
It's Uptown
1966
The New Boss Guitar of George Benson
1964
George Benson (born March 22, 1943) is a ten time Grammy Award winning American musician, whose production career began at the age of twenty-one as a jazz guitarist. Benson first came to prominence in the 1960s playing soul jazz with the likes of Jack McDuff. Benson then launched a successful solo career, alternating between jazz, pop, R&B singing, and scat singing. This one-time child prodigy topped the Billboard 200 in 1976 with the triple-platinum album, Breezin', He was also a major live attraction in the UK during the 1980s and continues to attract a large following today. Benson uses a rest-stroke picking technique similar to that of gypsy jazz players such as Django Reinhardt. In most recent years, he had already received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Benson was born and raised in the Hill District in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. At the age of 7, Benson first played the ukulele in a corner drug store for which he was paid a few dollars; at the age of 8, he was playing guitar in an unlicensed nightclub on Friday and Saturday nights which was soon closed down by the police. At the age of 10, George recorded his first single record with RCA-Victor in New York, called 'She …
