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Benny Golson

1929 - Today

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Benny Golson (born January 25, 1929) is an American bebop/hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and arranger. He came to prominence with the big bands of Lionel Hampton and Dizzy Gillespie, more as a writer than a performer, before launching his solo career. Golson is known for co-founding and co-leading The Jazztet with trumpeter Art Farmer in 1959. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Benny Golson has received more than 653,611 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Benny Golson is the 636th most popular musician (down from 536th in 2019), the 3,305th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,782nd in 2019) and the 197th most popular American Musician.

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  • 650k

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  • 53.18

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.16

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Benny Golson ranks 636 out of 2,662Before him are Axel Rudi Pell, Thom Yorke, Napoleon Orda, Suzanne Vega, K. K. Downing, and Max Roach. After him are Felix Blumenfeld, Alan Wilson, Louis Prima, Gaspara Stampa, Steve Gadd, and Mordechai Gebirtig.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Benny Golson ranks 183Before him are James Hong, Andre Gunder Frank, Rafael Eitan, Nargis, Peter Yates, and Aleksandra Pakhmutova. After him are Gastone Moschin, Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia, Giacomo Capuzzi, David Doyle, Tayeb Salih, and Anna Walentynowicz.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Benny Golson ranks 3,305 out of 18,182Before him are David Lee Roth (1954), John Paine (1870), Joseph A. Walker (1921), Nathan Homer Knorr (1905), Tom Holland (1943), and Doris Hart (1925). After him are Marian Anderson (1897), Crispin Glover (1964), Garret Hobart (1844), E. C. Segar (1894), Alan Wilson (1943), and Ken Jenkins (1940).

Among MUSICIANS In United States

Among musicians born in United States, Benny Golson ranks 197Before him are Kenny Clarke (1914), Horace Silver (1928), Peter Cetera (1944), Ric Ocasek (1949), Suzanne Vega (1959), and Max Roach (1924). After him are Alan Wilson (1943), Louis Prima (1910), Steve Gadd (1945), McCoy Tyner (1938), Ruggiero Ricci (1918), and Ron Carter (1937).