Tommy LiPuma, a record label executive and producer who made recordings with George Benson, Diana Krall ... LiPuma began packing vinyl records at a warehouse. Soon, he was offered a job in ...

Benson is currently recording a tribute album to the late Nat "King" Cole for Concord Records with a 50-piece orchestra. He expects it to be available in the spring.

While the phenomenal success of George Benson’s Breezin’ (1976) album may have fattened his wallet; it led the guitarist down a path that dismayed jazz critics worldwide. Indeed, the bulk of Benson’s ...

Less than a year later, George Benson revealed his own take on a number of songs from the record, cleverly titled The Other Side of Abbey Road. Backed by a now-legendary cast of characters from ...

Effinger George ... record to make the pop and R&B charts then, but critics still took umbrage with his early ascension into smooth jazz. With “Weekend in London,” Mr. Benson’s first live ...

sound like nobody but George Benson. His prodigious gift for assimilating and processing goes back to his pre-teen years in Pittsburgh, where his guitarist stepfather would spin swing records by ...

Veteran jazz, R&B and soul singer and guitarist George Benson's latest ... with eight albums under his belt, Benson signed to Creed Taylor’s CTI Records and began to make inroads into the ...

Appreciated as both musician and performer by millions, George Benson has always had the duel personae ... Montgomery had called one of his best records Boss Guitar. Benson had both the conviction and ...