George Benson
Carnegie Hall
New York City, NY
April 26, 1975 likely, but originally listed as April 5 - see dating notes


Source/Lineage Third row, center, a little to the left,
Sony 126 portable stereo cassette deck
Whichever high quality, non metal, maxell
cassette was available at that time.
I can't remember the mic
Teac 2300s reel to reel
Deck to Deck transfer(1st play of cassette)
Maxell UD 35-7, 7" reel @ 3 3/4 ips
My computer
Flac
Add. Lineage agalli CD > EAC > Wav > TLH > Flac

George Benson- guitar
Ronnie Foster- keyboards
Wayne Dockery- bass
Marvin Chappell- drums
Leonard "Doc" Gibbs- congas
Grover Washington Jr.* (guest)- saxophone

1- intro 0:16
2- tuning 0:34
3- First Light 11:45
4- El Mar 12:09
5- Take Five 6:14
6- Body Talk * 7:28
7- Intro 0:15
8- tuning/talk 0:32
9- White Rabbit 7:15
10- band intro/Ronnie's Groove 3:22

Running time: 49:51


Originally shared by jonicont on April 3, 2005

jonicont notes:
Let me preface this by saying that if you usually pass up audience recordings,
you really should get this one. The sound is excellent!!!


Additional notes (April 2026):
agalli received this CD in trade. I don't think the audio has been edited from
the original seed.

Dating notes:
George Benson played at Carnegie Hall on several occasions in 1975. His
performance on January 11, 1975 was officially released on "In Concert-Carnegie
Hall". He also performed at Carnegie Hall on July 3, 1975 and that was broadcast
on WRVR FM.

jonicont identified this for the original torrent as April 5, 1975. agalli is
skeptical of that date because George Benson allegedly played in San Francisco
at the Great American Music Hall on that day. On April 7, George was also
allegedly in Santa Cruz, California, which makes sense touring wise if he played
in San Francisco on April 5.

This recording has also previously been identified as April 25 but the Carnegie
Hall concert archives states that George played there with other jazz players on
April 26 and there is no concert listing for April 25.