GOLSON, BENNY. Jazz composer/Arranger ( in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). He began piano study when he was nine years old, then changed to saxophone when he was thirteen. He obtained his musical education in the public schools of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Later he studied composition with Henry Brant and Earle Hagen. During the 1950s he played saxophone with various groups, including Benjamin (Bull Moose
) Jackson (1951), Tadd Dameron (1953),...