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In September 1945, Leon Hefflin Sr. brought the first jazz music festival to the masses at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles. Cavalcade of Jazz was an opportunity for music lovers of all stripes to join ...

George Benson, best known for his No. 1 hit "Give Me the Night," is celebrating his 83rd birthday. Born on March 22, 1943, in ...

“People love us when we’re starving,” George Benson said in 1974. “But the minute you commercialize your sound, they hate you.” It was a hard-earned truth from a guitarist who had already lived both ...