It is one of the most famous jazz guitars in history. It is a 24 3⁄4″ scale full hollow-body guitar with a trapeze tailpiece and Tune-O-Matic bridge. The Gibson ES-175 is an electric guitar manufactured by the Gibson Guitar Corporation. It was dropped from the Gibson lineup for 2019 after 68 years in continuous production. Modelled into the silhouette of the head of a Gibson L175 Guitar as favoured by George Benson. His version was recorded in January 1976 and released as a single in September of the same year.
Five years after Gábor Szabó’s original recording, the song became even better known for a successful re-recording by singer and guitarist George Benson, whose 1976 cover was the title track of his album Breezin’. The song was originally released in 1971 on the Szabó’s album High Contrast. It was originally recorded in December 1970 by the influential Hungarian jazz guitarist Gábor Szabó, in partnership with Womack himself. ‘Brezzin’is an instrumental song composed by American singer and musician Bobby Womack. He also recorded the original version of “The Greatest Love of All” for the 1977 Muhammad Ali bio-pic, The Greatest, which was later covered by Whitney Houston as “Greatest Love of All”. He then launched a successful solo career, alternating between jazz, pop, R&B singing, and scat singing. A former child prodigy, Benson first came to prominence in the 1960s, playing soul jazz with Jack McDuff and others. Benson uses a rest-stroke picking technique similar to that of gypsy jazz players such as Django Reinhardt. He began his professional career at the age of 21 as a jazz guitarist. George Washington Benson (born, 1943) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Most of Breezin' is a softer-focused variation of Benson's R&B/jazz-flavored CTI work, his guitar as assured and fluid as ever with Claus Ogerman providing the suave orchestral backdrops and his crack then-working band (including Ronnie Foster on keyboards and sparkplug Phil. Additional information about this, George Benson vinyl art. All of a sudden, George Benson became a pop superstar with this album, thanks to its least representative track.
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