Benny Golson

Benny Golson was born on Jan 25, 1929 in USA. Benny Golson's big-screen debut came with The Road to Shame directed by Édouard Molinaro in 1959. Benny Golson is known for The Terminal directed by Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks stars as Viktor Navorski and Catherine Zeta-Jones as Amelia Warren. The most recent award Benny Golson achieved is BMI Film & TV Awards. The upcoming new movie Benny Golson plays is The Terminal which will be released on Jun 18, 2004.

Jazz composer ("I Remember Clifford", for the late jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown), conductor, saxophonist and arranger, educated at Howard University. He was a saxophonist in the orchestras of Bull Moose Jackson, Tadd Dameron, Lionel Hampton, Johnny Hodges, Earl Bostic, Dizzy Gillespie and Art Blakey, then formed his own quartet in 1959, then formed "The Jazztet" with Art Farmer. He has made many recordings. Joining ASCAP in 1958, his other popular-song and instrumental compositions include "Stablemates", "Whisper Not", "Killer Joe", "Five Spot After Dark", and "Fair Weather".