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Title: Benny..Where's the punch?
Review: I bought this album not long after hearing the album he did with Jack McDuff called "Dynamic"(Prestige records-PRLP-7323)back in 1964,now out-of-print.I was taken by the arrangements he did for McDuff and expected more of the same punch he delivered. Boy, was I wrong. Aside from 'A Sweedish Villa' it sounds as though everyone in the band was taking a vacation and was asked at the last minute to do a recording session.Having cut my teeth on Basie and other swing era big bands, I was just hoping that this album could resurect some of the dynamics of that time. But alas "NO".Benny Golson would later put out some fine albums, but this one wasn't one of them.
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