Horizon Ahead

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Review scores
Source	Rating
All About Jazz	[3]

All About Jazz's Jack Bowers stated "At age eighty-seven, saxophonist Benny Golson is one of the last surviving links to the Golden Age of modern jazz... If time has dulled Golson's razor-sharp mind or degraded his admirable technique, it's certainly not apparent on Horizon Ahead, on which Golson is in total command of a much-more-youthful rhythm section ... Benny Golson not only keeps working but showing a younger generation that when it comes to contemporary jazz, maturity and experience are dependable allies in the ongoing battle with Father Time. It is, of course, a battle that can never be won, but Golson proves on Horizon Ahead that when his time comes, he'll definitely go down swinging".[3]

JazzTimes' Evan Haga observed "Neither blowing session nor conceptual work, Horizon Ahead is simply terrific".[4]

All compositions by Benny Golson except where noted

1. "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" (Duke Ellington, Bob Russell) – 6:16
2. "Jump Start" – 3:10
3. "Horizon Ahead" – 6:03
4. "Mood Indigo" (Ellington, Barney Bigard, Irving Mills) – 4:16
5. "Domingo" – 8:41
6. "Lulu's Back In Town" (Harry Warren, Al Dubin) – 4:40
7. "Night Shade" – 5:28
8. "Three Little Words" (Harry Ruby, Bert Kalmar) – 5:57
9. Spoken introduction – 2:39
10. "Out of the Darkness, and Into the Light" (Carl Allen) – 7:43

• Benny Golson – tenor saxophone
• Mike LeDonne – piano
• Buster Williams - bass
• Carl Allen – drums