Horizon Ahead


Horizon Ahead is an album by saxophonist/composer Benny Golson that was recorded in 2015 and released on the HighNote label the following year.

Reception

All About Jazz's Jack Bowers stated "At age eighty-seven, saxophonist Benny Golson is one of the last surviving links to the Golden Age of modern jazz... If time has dulled Golson's razor-sharp mind or degraded his admirable technique, it's certainly not apparent on Horizon Ahead, on which Golson is in total command of a much-more-youthful rhythm section... Benny Golson not only keeps working but showing a younger generation that when it comes to contemporary jazz, maturity and experience are dependable allies in the ongoing battle with Father Time. It is, of course, a battle that can never be won, but Golson proves on Horizon Ahead that when his time comes, he'll definitely go down swinging".
JazzTimes' Evan Haga observed "Neither blowing session nor conceptual work, Horizon Ahead is simply terrific".

Track listing

All compositions by Benny Golson except where noted
  1. "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" – 6:16
  2. "Jump Start" – 3:10
  3. "Horizon Ahead" – 6:03
  4. "Mood Indigo" – 4:16
  5. "Domingo" – 8:41
  6. "Lulu's Back In Town" – 4:40
  7. "Night Shade" – 5:28
  8. "Three Little Words" – 5:57
  9. Spoken introduction – 2:39
  10. "Out of the Darkness, and Into the Light" – 7:43

Personnel

Production