Beat Crazy
Feb 07, 2020
3 minutes
BY MORGAN ENOS
The co-writer of George Benson’s 2014 autobiography Benson is now making EDM versions of jazz standards alone in his Chicago apartment. “I don’t know who it will appeal to. It’s so hard to get people to listen to it,” Alan Goldsher, that writer/musician, tells JazzTimes. “[But] with what Robert Glasper and Snarky Puppy are doing, people are more open to an amalgam like this, I think. I think.”
Goldsher’s latest self-released album, which came out January 7, has a,” he says. “It looked ridiculous on the cover, so I cut it down. It’s just me being silly.” He pared it back to just ; the cover features a clip-art-looking jazzbo in silhouette.
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