title: Turning Point (Benny Golson album)
text: # Turning Point (Benny Golson album)
  
  Turning Point is an album by saxophonist Benny Golson, featuring performances recorded in late 1962 and originally released on the Mercury label.
  
  ## Background
  
  This was the first of a pair of quartet recordings by Golson in two months. Golson was displeased with his playing at the time: "I was frustrated, because I didn't know how I wanted to sound"; he soon stopped playing, and did not resume for seven or eight years. The title, according to Golson, "indicates my frustration with [producer] Kay Norton and Art [Farmer, co-leader of the Jazztet], because we had reached a point where we wanted to go in different directions."
  
  ## Reception
  
  Professional ratings :
  
  | Review scores ||
  | - | - |
  | Source | Rating |
  | Allmusic | |
  | Down Beat | |
  | The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | |
  
  The Allmusic review states, "this quartet set for tenor saxophonist Benny Golson was the beginning of the close of an era. Within a year, Golson would be working full-time as a writer in the studios, and he de-emphasized his playing until making a comeback in the late 1970s".
  
  ## Track listing
  
  All compositions by Benny Golson except as indicated
  
  * "How Am I to Know" (Dorothy Parker, Jack King) - 3:47
  * The Masquerade Is Over"" (Herbert Magidson, Allie Wrubel) - 4:38
  * "Dear Kathy" - 4:48
  * "Three Little Words" (Harry Ruby, Bert Kalmar) - 4:38
  * "Turning Point" - 3:56
  * "Stella by Starlight" (Victor Young, Ned Washington) - 4:50
  * "Alone Together" (Arthur Schwartz, Howard Dietz) - 7:30
  * Recorded in New York City on October 30 (tracks 4, 5 & 7), October 31 (tracks 2 & 6) and November 1 (tracks 1 & 3), 1962
  
  ## Personnel
  
  * Benny Golson - tenor saxophone
  * Wynton Kelly - piano
  * Paul Chambers - bass
  * Jimmy Cobb - drums
  