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Gone With Golson

Benny Golson

Recorded	Jun 20, 1959
Label	New Jazz
Catalog	NJLP 8235
Released	1959
Personnel	5 credited players
Discogs	master 534764

The record

Ray Bryant's blues-soaked piano and the Bryant-Harewood rhythm team give this Prestige session its loose backbone, while Fuller's horn trails the leader's through material built on strong melody. It's a quieter entry in Golson's run, but the writing carries it.

Session personnel

Tommy Bryant — bass
Al Harewood — 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 22 pressings on file.

1960	Prestige · NJLP 8235 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono earliest on file
1963	Prestige · NJLP 8235 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress, Mono · deep groove; RVG stamp
1965	Prestige · NJLP 8235 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono, Magenta cover · RVG stamp
1965	Prestige · NJLP 8235 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono · RVG stamp
1960	Metronome · MEP 9048 — Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, EP, Mono
1960	Metronome · MEP 9048 — Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, EP, Promo, Mono
1961	Esquire · 32-125 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
1961	Top Rank International · RANK-5067 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono
1979	Prestige — MONO
1992	Prestige · VICJ-23743 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo
1993	Prestige · VIJJ-30032 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono
1994	Original Jazz Classics · OJCCD-1850-2 — CD, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo
1994	Original Jazz Classics · OJCCD-1850-2 — CD, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo
1997	Prestige · VICJ-2204 — CD, Album, Remastered, Stereo