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Gil "bop" Benson at B. Tillman
Courtesy of Coastal Jazz Association | Posted on February 11, 2015
Where
B. Tillman
6700 Waters Ave
Savannah, GA
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Sun, March 15, 2015
5:00 pm
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Gil “Bop” Benson is a New Jersey native, now residing in Ridgeland, SC after a long career as a jazz trumpeter, vocalist and educator.
While a student at Howard University, he gigged in the D.C. area, often with the tenor saxophonist Harold Vick. Back in New Jersey, he worked throughout the New York/New Jersey area.
Concentrating now only on his vocals, Gil continues in the tradition of some of the great jazz singers of the past: Louis Armstrong, Billy Eckstine, Joe Williams, Frank Sinatra and Johnny Hartman, adding his own unique bebop-influenced scat-singing style to the mix....