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Dexter Gordon (featuring Leo Parker): Dexter's Riff (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music December 22, 08Performing with Billy Eckstine, Dizzy Gillespie, and Illinois Jacquet in the 1940s, Leo Parker looked to be prepping ...
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Dexter Gordon: Dexter Rides Again (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music April 14, 09Directly following performances with Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker in 1945, Dexter Gordon capitalized on his bop...
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Dexter Gordon & Wardell Gray: The Chase (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music November 02, 07Bebop was an East Coast innovation, but much of the early bop tenor sax idiom was developed on the West Coast – shape...
Dexter Gordon: Fried Bananas (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music July 06, 08After being cast against everyone's advice, Dexter Gordon was nominated for a "Best Actor" Oscar for his perform...
Dexter Gordon: You've Changed (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music April 14, 09With the exception of a couple of bop/hard-bop sessions (Daddy Plays the Horn and Dexter Blows Hot and Cool), the 195...
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Dexter Gordon: Cheese Cake (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music April 14, 09Once asked which of his own Blue Note albums his personal favorite was, Gordon rather surprisingly offered a response...
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Dexter Gordon: Kong Neptune (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music April 14, 09Recorded in Paris in 1964 and featuring two of Gordon’s most familiar European sidemen (pianist Kenny Drew and bassis...
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Dexter Gordon & Wardell Gray: The Hunt (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music April 14, 09Two of Wardell Gray’s and Dexter Gordon’s tenor duels, “The Chase” and “The Hunt,” rank among the all-time highlights...
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Dexter Gordon: A Night In Tunisia (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music April 14, 09Discouraged by the palpable lack of appreciation throughout the first twenty years of his career, Dexter Gordon reloc...
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Dexter Gordon: It’s You or No One (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music April 14, 09After thirty-plus years in the business with a respected yet somehow undervalued reputation, Dexter Gordon received a...
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Dexter Gordon: 'Round Midnight (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music January 13, 08Due in large part to the concluding chapter of Ken Burns’s engaging yet contentious documentary Jazz, the return of D...
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Whenever I step inside the Village Vanguard, I am always struck by a déjà vu sense of the awe-inspiring amounts of ...
Dexter Gordon: Gingerbread Boy (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music September 17, 08This recording contains all the feeling of New York in the ’70s. It was a big event in jazz when Dexter Gordon return...
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Editor's Note: From the nature of his remarks on these dozen choice tracks by the iconic trumpeter Woody Shaw (1944-1...
Dexter Gordon: Boston Bernie (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music April 14, 09In the spring of 1969, seven years before he would make his dramatic permanent return to the United States, Gordon to...
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Dexter Gordon: As Time Goes By (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 02, 07After a long expatriation, Dexter Gordon came home during the height of 1970s fusion confusion, and helped restore ja...
Dexter Gordon: Autumn in New York (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 02, 07During the 1950s, Dexter Gordon spent most of his time behind bars, and not the kind where drinks are served. Busted ...
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Saxophone by Suzanne Cerny The tenor is the manliest saxophone and possibly the m...
Dexter Gordon: Blues Walk (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music February 11, 09Tenor titan Dexter Gordon was a mainstay at the Montmartre during the 1960s, except for '66 when a drug sentence in P...
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Dexter Gordon: The Shadow of Your Smile (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music April 14, 09If you ask someone to connect Dexter Gordon to a single record label, I’d guess that nine times out of ten, Blue Note...
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Dexter Gordon: Three O'Clock in the Morning (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 23, 07Originally a follower of Lester Young, Dexter Gordon emerged in the 1940s as a major bebop tenor saxophonist, becomin...
Dexter Gordon: Willow Weep for Me (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music October 23, 07One of the high points of Dexter Gordon’s 15-year self-imposed exile from the U.S. is this Parisian collaboration wit...
Dexter Gordon: You Stepped Out of a Dream (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music December 07, 07Part of a jazz lover's impossible mission, should you decide to accept it, is to champion artists forsaken in fashion...
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