Benny Golson discography

As leader

Benny Golson's New York Scene (Contemporary, 1957)

The Modern Touch (Riverside, 1957)

The Other Side of Benny Golson (Riverside, 1958)

Benny Golson and the Philadelphians (United Artists, 1958)

Gone with Golson (New Jazz, 1959)

Groovin' with Golson (New Jazz, 1959)

Gettin' with It (New Jazz, 1959)

Winchester Special (New Jazz, 1959) - with Lem Winchester

Take a Number from 1 to 10 (Argo, 1961)

Pop + Jazz = Swing (Audio Fidelity, 1962; reissued with Just Jazz!)

Just Jazz! (Audio Fidelity, 1962)

Turning Point (Mercury, 1962)

Free (Argo, 1962)

Stockholm Sojourn (Prestige, 1964)

Tune In, Turn On (Verve, 1967)

Are You Real (CBS/Sony, 1977)

Killer Joe (Columbia, 1977)

I'm Always Dancin' to the Music (Columbia, 1978)

California Message (Baystate, 1980)

One More Mem'ry (Baystate, 1981)

This Is for You, John (Timeless, 1987)

Up, Jumped Spring (LRC Ltd., 1990)

Up Jumped Benny (Arkadia Jazz, 1997)

That's Funky (Arkadia Jazz, 2000)

One Day Forever (Arkadia Jazz, 2001)

Terminal 1 (Concord, 2004)

The Masquerade Is Over (Azzurra Music, 2005)

The Many Moods of Benny Golson (Arkadia Jazz, 2007)

Three Little Words (Synergie OMG, 2007)

New Time, New 'Tet (Concord, 2009)

Horizon Ahead (HighNote, 2016)

With the Jazztet

Meet the Jazztet (Argo, 1960)

Big City Sounds (Argo, 1960)

The Jazztet and John Lewis (Argo, 1961)

The Jazztet at Birdhouse (Argo, 1961)

Here and Now (Mercury, 1962)

Another Git Together (Mercury, 1962)

Voices All (East West, 1982)

Playboy Jazz Festival (Elektra/Musician, 1982)

Moment to Moment (Soul Note, 1983)

Nostalgia (Baystate, 1983)

Back to the City (Contemporary, 1986)

Real Time (Contemporary, 1986)

As arranger

With Kenny Burrell

Both Feet on the Ground (Fantasy, 1973)

With Jimmy Cleveland

Rhythm Crazy (EmArcy, 1959 [1964]) and performer

With Art Farmer

Brass Shout (United Artists, 1959)

Baroque Sketches (Columbia, 1967)

With Curtis Fuller

Sliding Easy (United Artists, 1959)

With Red Holloway

Sax, Strings & Soul (Prestige, 1964)

With Roland Kirk

The Roland Kirk Quartet Meets the Benny Golson Orchestra (Mercury, 1963)

With Illinois Jacquet

Bosses of the Ballad (Argo, 1964)

With Jack McDuff

Prelude (Prestige, 1963)

The Dynamic Jack McDuff (Prestige, 1964)

Walk On By (Prestige, 1966)

The Midnight Sun (Prestige, 1964-66 [1969])

Steppin' Out (Prestige, 1961-66 [1969])

With Freda Payne

How Do You Say I Don't Love You Anymore (MGM, 1966)

With Sahib Shihab

Jazz Sahib (Savoy, 1957)

With Jimmy Witherspoon

Some of My Best Friends Are the Blues (Prestige, 1964)

As sideman

With Art Blakey

Moanin' (Blue Note, 1958)

1958 - Paris Olympia (Fontana, 1958)

Des Femmes Disparaissent (Soundtrack) (Fontana, 1958)

With Jimmy Cleveland

Cleveland Style (EmArcy, 1958)

With Cass Elliot

Cass Elliot (RCA 1971)

With Art Farmer

Modern Art (United Artists, 1958)

With Curtis Fuller

Blues-ette (Savoy, 1959)

The Curtis Fuller Jazztet (Savoy, 1959)

Imagination (Savoy, 1959)

With Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy in Greece (Verve, 1957)

Birks' Works (Verve, 1957)

Dizzy Gillespie at Newport (Verve, 1957)

The Greatest Trumpet of Them All (Verve, 1957)

Bird Songs: The Final Recordings (Telarc, 1992)

To Bird with Love (Telarc, 1992)

With Ernie Henry

Last Chorus (Riverside, 1956–57)

With Milt Jackson

Bags' Opus (United Artists, 1958)

With Philly Joe Jones

Drums Around the World (Riverside, 1959)

With Quincy Jones

The Birth of a Band! (Mercury, 1959)

With John Lewis

The Wonderful World of Jazz (Atlantic, 1960)

Essence (Atlantic, 1962)

With Abbey Lincoln

It's Magic (Riverside, 1958)

With Blue Mitchell

Out of the Blue (1959)

With Lee Morgan

Lee Morgan Vol. 3 (Blue Note, 1957)

With Oscar Pettiford

The Oscar Pettiford Orchestra in Hi-Fi Volume Two (ABC-Paramount, 1957) - also composer and arranger

With Arkadia Jazz All Stars

Thank You, Duke!

With Sarah Vaughan

Sassy Swings Again (1967)

With Meeco

Beauty of the Night (Connector, 2012)

With Gail Davies

Since I Don't Have You (Little Chickadee, 2014)