Description
The Other Side Of Abbey Road came out just months after Abbey Road was released. It is the only full length cover album of a complete Beatle’s album. It was recorded during Benson’s jazz period before he entered his breezin’ pop jazz style of the mid folate seventies.
While commercial success eventually did come to Benson, it came mostly at the expense of his brilliant guitar playing. The Other Side Of Abbey Road predates Benson’s notorious 70s sellout. This is an incredibly tight and cohesive album, filled with great solos by Benson, Herbie Hancock, Freddie Hubbard, and Sonny Fortune. Creed Taylor really hit his stride with this record, laying the blueprint for his classic CTI-label formula: top-ten pop covers, top-flight musicians, tight arrangements, atmospheric Don Sebesky strings, and superb Rudy Van Gelder sound quality. All these winning elements come together here, making this the most moody, melodic, complex, and funky of the “good” George Benson records worth owning.
