I’m Always Dancin’ To The Music
Benny Golson
I’m Always Dancin’ To The Music, 1978
Benny Golson is an old school jazz cat. Old school, like, first name on the caption of the “A Great Day In Harlem” photo, played with Lionel Hampton, Dizzy Gillespie, and Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers all during the 50’s, putting out albums as a leader since ‘57 - old school.
Allmusic.com describes his other album for Columbia (the one immediately before this one) as “an unfortunate commercial effort” in contrast to his other “consistently rewarding” albums. I would assume they would lump this one into that statement if it was widely available. For the most part I would agree with them, although De La Soul even put some of the more saccharine material from this LP (see “High On Sunshine”) to good use.
This song is so good (don’t be thrown by the first 15 seconds) that it’s confusing in its original context. The weird thing about it is that the artist is the only person listed as a writer. If he’s able to write syncopated off-tempo (91 BPM) disco this well, why is the rest of the album so bad? Of course, I don’t want to know…I’m just happy that this slipped through somehow.
[Correction: Monk One caught me sleeping on my own record collection and the sample above is actually from the original Commodores version of “High On Sunshine.”]
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March 10th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
Nice blog… If this song is the one I’m thinking of it was used on a drum n bass record from about 1994 which I think was by Tom & Jerry (who were 4Hero under a different name according to my friend at the time who was more into drum n bass than me).
I’ve always liked the crazy intro too!