Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. And we’re talking a lot more. How about the great John Scofield, too? And Cory Wong, Andy Timmons? Oh, and Stanley Jordan, will be ...

At the SFJazz Gala, tributes to Miles Davis, John Coltrane and George Benson argued jazz can help drive San Francisco's ...

Few musicians have seen the success that guitarist, vocalist and cultural icon George Benson has: platinum records, a record of the year Grammy, four Top 10 hits. But from behind the gilded veil of ...

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 ...

When guitarist George Benson's Warner Bros. debut Breezin' was issued in March 1976, it immediately became a hit; indeed one of the largest hits jazz has ever known. Guided by the successful hit ...

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 ...

SFJAZZ announced that 10-time GRAMMY Award–winning jazz icon George Benson will make his SFJAZZ debut at San Francisco's Davies Symphony Hall for one-night-only on Monday, May 11, 2026 at 8 p.m.

When his fame started reaching new heights in the 1970s, though, the jazz community took umbrage at his success. “Everybody I know in the jazz world who cut a record that was exceptional or went out ...