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Benny Golson dead at 95: Iconic jazz saxophonist and composer passes away in NYC
Jazz great Benny Golson has died aged 95.
The tenor saxophonist and composer of standards such as Killer Joe and Along Came Betty passed away Saturday at his Manhattan home after a short illness - his longtime agent Jason Franklin confirmed. Over his seven-decade musical career, Golson worked with some of the biggest luminaries in jazz, including Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton and John Coltrane. He appeared as himself in the 2004 Steven Spielberg movie The Terminal in which the main character, played by Tom Hanks, travels to New York from a fictional Eastern European country to obtain Golson's autograph, which he needs to complete a collection of signatures of all of the 58 jazz musicians who assembled for the famous 1958 group photo A Great Day in Harlem.
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