Brotherly love
In this excerpt from his recent autobiography, Benson (Da Capo), guitarist and vocalist George Benson remembers how the late organ master Brother Jack McDuff hired him, kept him out of jail, nearly fired him and ultimately kindled his career-one of the most successful in jazz history.
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