George Benson
USA
Born: 22 March 1943
Years Active: 60, 70, 80, 90, 2000
Styles: Bop, Hard Bop, Jazz-Pop, Contemporary Jazz, Fusion, Crossover Jazz, Smooth Jazz, Quiet Storm, Hip-Hop/Urban, R&B/Soul
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George Benson is simply one of the greatest guitarists in jazz history, but he is also an amazingly versatile musician, and that frustrates to no end critics who would paint him into a narrow bop box. He can play in just about any style -- from swing to bop to R&B to pop -- with supreme taste, a beautiful rounded tone, terrific speed, a marvelous sense of logic in building solos, and, always, an unquenchable urge to swing. His inspirations may have been Charlie Christian and Wes Montgomery -- and he can do dead-on impressions of both -- but his...
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