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Benny Golson is an NEA Jazz Master, composer, arranger, and saxophonist. After helping Art Blakey revamp his regime with the Jazz Messengers, he co-founded Jazztet with trumpeter Art Farmer. He has composed not only jazz standards, including "Killer Joe" and "Along Came Betty," but also music for films and television, including It Takes a Thief and MASH. Jim Merodhas recorded a veritable "who's who" of jazz greats under his BluePort Jazz label. He is a Professor of Literature and Humanitiesat Soka University, who has also taught at Cornell, Brown, Brandeis, Stanford, and UCLA. He isthe author ofThe Political Responsibility of the Criticandthe editor of Jazz as a Cultural Archive, a special issue of the journal boundary 2.