George Benson was honored by Wyclef Jean and more at the Jazz Foundation of America fundraising gala on Sunday (Nov. 1). Here ...

In the summer of 2004 guitarist George Benson sat down unnoticed at the Baton Rouge Bar in Montreal and asked for a margarita. The Baton Rouge is a great restaurant haven for jazz goers and musicians ...

George Benson has never been shy about trying to find a wider audience for jazz guitar. Less than a month after the Beatles hit the streets with "Abbey Road," he was in the studio reimagining those ...

The BBC has apologised after paying tribute to the late film composer George Fenton by playing a song by jazz star George Benson - who is still alive. Mr Fenton, known for his collaborations with ...

Legendary jazz guitarist, singer and songwriter George Benson joined host Kenneth Womack to talk about what makes a hit record, how he became friends with Paul McCartney, his new album “Dreams Do Come ...

Some tunes are so sacred that any attempt to cover them can only result in failure. Yet George Benson makes this mistake twice on Bad Benson; the band can’t quite manage a groove in 5/4 on Brubeck’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. That's exactly what happened with Dreams Do Come True, an ambitious orchestral pop record he made with famed arranger Robert ...

Add Us On i Make JazzTimes a preferred source and Google will show you more of our stories in Top Stories. We were very excited when Marcus Miller agreed to visit George Benson in his Arizona home and ...

In this excerpt from his recent autobiography, Benson (Da Capo), guitarist and vocalist George Benson remembers how the late organ master Brother Jack McDuff hired him, kept him out of jail, nearly ...