Benny Golson's Park Avenue Petite is easily one of the most beautiful and most underrated ballads ever written. Yet the meaning of its title has remained largely unknown. Despite extensive online research yesterday and several well-placed phone calls, I could not uncover the song's inspiration. So I reached out to Benny Golson himself, who provided me w…
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