July 2010
8 posts
Cookbook
Following my previous post I’ve been listening to this album non-stop the last few days. The George Benson Cookbook is one of two albums by the George Benson Quartet. It was released in 1967 and it’s a really rad album with some AWESOME guitar work. If you are remotely interested in Jazz or Soul music check it out.
Here’s the Amazon link:
George Benson Cookbook
nimzies-deactivated20100822 asked: what can we find on your ipod? what musicians do you find yourself listening to frequently and/or draw inspiration from?
lizmizerik asked: What do you most like about playing music? And if you didn't play, what do you think you would be doing?
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