Turning Point is an album by saxophonist Benny Golson, featuring performances recorded in late 1962 and originally released on the Mercury label.

[1] This was the first of a pair of quartet recordings by Golson in two months.

[2] 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.

"[2] 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".