In the greater scheme of Benson's career, Breezin' is really not so much a breakthrough as it is a transition album the guitar is still the core of his identity. A D G Bm F Em E Fm C B F Dm Am Chords for Breezin' - George Benson - Instrumental Jazz Guitar with song key, BPM, capo transposer, play along with guitar, piano, ukulele & mandolin. The attractive title track also became a minor hit single, although Gabor Szabo's 1971 recording with composer Bobby Womack is even more fetching.
In 1964, at the age of 21, Benson recorded his first album as leader, The New Boss. Benson got his first experience playing with his several-year stint with McDuffs group. He started out playing straight-ahead instrumental jazz with organist Jack McDuff. Yet it is the sole vocal track (his first in many years), Leon Russell's "This Masquerade" - where George unveiled his new trademark, scatting along with a single-string guitar solo - that reached number ten on the pop singles chart and drove the album all the way to number one on the pop (!) LP chart. George Benson is a jazz guitarist born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA on 22 March 1943. 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 Upchurch on rhythm guitar) pumping up the funk element.
All of a sudden, George Benson became a pop superstar with this album, thanks to its least representative track.
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