George Benson Live at the Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, Rhode Island - 1969 (audio only)

George Benson Live at the Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, Rhode Island, July 3rd, 1969. -Setlist: 01. Shape Of Things To Come 02. Song Introduction 03. Straight No Chaser 04. Footin’ It 05. Song Introduction 06. Face It Boy, It’s Over 07. Don’t Let Me Lose This Dream -Lineup: George Benson - guitar Charlie Covington - organ Harold Ousley - tenor sax, flute Leo Morris - drums By 1969, George Benson was in the midst of being reinvented and repackaged as a more accessible guitar star. Coming up in the mid-’60s as a torrid bop-oriented soloist and highly touted heir to Wes Montgomery (who died on June 15, 1968), Benson began melding popular elements into his music as early as 1968. The following year, producer Creed Taylor recruited Don Sebesky, who had provided the lush arrangements on Montgomery’s 1966 hit recording, California Dreaming, to provide orchestral sweetening on Shape of Things to Come, Benson’s debut on A&M Records. Benson and