Live At Montreux 1986 (Live) (Remastered) George Benson

• 1 Feel Like Making Love (Live) 04:18
• 2 Off Broadway (Live) 04:01
• 3 Weekend in L.A (Live) 06:39
• 4 Lady Love Me (Live) 03:57
• 5 Love Ballad (Live) 07:59
• 6 Beyond The Sea (Live) 03:54
• 7 Affirmation (Live) 06:14
• 8 My Latin Brother (Live) 05:39
• 9 Love X Love (Live) 06:37
• 10 In Your Eyes (Live) 03:12
• 11 The Greatest Love Of All (Live) 06:37
• 12 20/20 (Live) 04:17
• 13 Never Give Up On A Good Thing (Live) 04:23
• 14 Turn Your Love Around (Live) 04:09
• 15 On Broadway (Live) 09:58
• Total Runtime 01:21:54

Info for Live At Montreux 1986 (Live) (Remastered)

George Benson: Live at Montreux 1986 dokumentiert den Auftritt des Jazzgitarristen 1986 beim renommierten Musikfestival.

Der virtuose Jazzgitarrist, Sänger und Songwriter war über viele Jahre hinweg häufiger Gast des berühmten Festivals und hat diesen Auftritt persönlich als seinen ersten aus Montreux ausgewählt, um ihn als Live-Set zu veröffentlichen. Es zeigt Benson auf dem Höhepunkt seines Schaffens Mitte der 1980er Jahre, in seinem Element bei Titeln, die seine enorme Anziehungskraft auf Hits bis zu diesem Zeitpunkt seiner Karriere wie "On Broadway", "Lady Love Me (One More Time)", "In Your Eyes", "Love X Love" und "20/20" einfangen.

Weitere Hits aus Bensons langer Reihe erfolgreicher Pop- und Soul-Singles im Set sind "Never Give Up On A Good Thing", "Turn Your Love Around" und sein großer Balladenerfolg "The Greatest Love Of All". Das Set enthält auch einige seiner Lieblings-Cover, die er gerne live spielt, wie z. B. eine Eröffnungsversion von Roberta Flacks Pop- und R&B-Nr. 1 "Feel Like Making Love" aus dem Jahr 1974, Bobby Darins "Beyond The Sea" und L.T.D.s erstem Hit und Nr. 1 "Love Ballad" aus dem Jahr 1976, den Benson 1979 zu seinem eigenen Nr. 3-Hit in den Billboard R&B-Charts (und Top 20 Pop-Crossover) machte.

Die Musik von George Benson, dessen Stil Generationen beeinflussen sollte, ist zeitlos. Dies wird auf Live at Montreux 1986 gekonnt eingefangen.

George Benson

Digitally remastered

Born on March 22, 1943 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Benson showed prodigious talent from an early age, winning a singing contest when he was only four years old and enjoying a short career as a child radio performer under the name of “Little Georgie Benson.” He started playing the guitar when he was eight, but it was as a vocalist that he spent much of his vast musical energy as a teenager, organizing and performing with a succession of rhythm-and-blues and rock bands around Pittsburgh. He made recordings for RCA Victor’s X Records subsidiary in the middle 1950s. But Benson’s stepfather encouraged his instrumental efforts by constructing a guitar for him, and in his late teens he began to concentrate exclusively on guitar. Seeking out the music of modern jazz’s golden age, he became more and more interested in jazz, and was particularly inspired by recordings of saxophonist Charlie Parker and guitarists Charlie Christian and Grant Green.

Discovered by John Hammond: In 1961 Benson jumped to the national stage when he joined the group backing jazz organist Jack McDuff. He played and recorded with McDuff for four years. Then he struck out on his own: he moved to New York City, then the capital of the jazz universe, and formed his own band. There Benson made two acquaintances who proved crucial in setting him on the path to jazz stardom: guitarist Wes Montgomery, whose soft tone and graceful octave playing provided Benson with his most important stylistic inspiration, and Columbia Records producer and executive John Hammond, whose unerring eye for talent brought

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