George Benson Live at the Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, Rhode Island, July 3rd, 1969.
-Setlist:
01. Shape Of Things To Come
02. Song Introduction
03. Straight No Chaser
04. Footin’ It
05. Song Introduction
06. Face It Boy, It’s Over
07. Don’t Let Me Lose This Dream
-Lineup:
George Benson - guitar
Charlie Covington - organ
Harold Ousley - tenor sax, flute
Leo Morris - drums
By 1969, George Benson was in the midst of being reinvented and repackaged as a more accessible guitar star. Coming up in the mid-’60s as a torrid bop-oriented soloist and highly touted heir to Wes Montgomery (who died on
... June 15, 1968), Benson began melding popular elements into his music as early as 1968. The following year, producer Creed Taylor recruited Don Sebesky, who had provided the lush arrangements on Montgomery’s 1966 hit recording, California Dreaming, to provide orchestral sweetening on Shape of Things to Come, Benson’s debut on A&M Records. Benson andShow more