Jazz Articles about Dexter Gordon

Dexter Gordon: Round Midnight: Motion Picture Soundtrack

by Jim Santella
April 12, 2002

Directed by Bertrand Tavernier, Round Midnight is a fictional story that combines the careers of Bud Powell and Lester Young into one character. The soundtrack stands out as one of the greatest jazz film scores ever issued. Everything was recorded live. This reissue also features a bonus track, from Dexter Gordon's Homecoming: Live At The Village Vanguard (Columbia, 1976).

As the lead character, Gordon interprets “Body and Soul" and a few other pieces that provide appropriate impressions ...

Dexter Gordon: LTD: Live At the Left Bank

by C. Michael Bailey
August 1, 2001

Long Tall Dexter in Baltimore, circa 1969.The most telling thing about this disc is a political one. Inside the liner notes, in small print, are the words. “Special Thanks to Joel Dorn." Indeed, special thanks. Dorn has based his new company, Label M, on about 300 performances he negotiated away from Baltimore's Left Bank Jazz Society that constitute his Live at the Left Bank series. It's likely that this all resulted from a quid pro quo between Dorn ...

Dexter Gordon: L.T.D.

by Derek Taylor
June 1, 2001

For most fans of hard bop the fact that this disc presents previously unreleased Dexter Gordon of late 60s vintage will alone be sufficient impetus to make the remainder of this review superfluous. Discovery of vault tapes is always cause for celebration and this set, recorded on the occasion of one of Long Tall Dex’s (source of the titular acronym) intermittent returns to the States during his expatriate phase in Paris, makes good on the promise of its pedigree. Fronting ...

Dexter Gordon: L.T.D.

by David A. Orthmann
June 1, 2001

Consisting of four cuts spread out over a 62 minute running time, Dexter Gordon’sL.T.D.is not for listeners with short attention spans. Within the trappings of a mundane blowing session, there is a lot going on during these previously unreleased tracks recorded live in May 1969 at the Famous Ballroom in Baltimore. Gordon is in an expansive mood, taking multiple choruses on medium tempo versions of “Broadway,” and his own “Boston Bernie,” based on the changes of Jerome Kern’s “All The ...

Dexter Gordon: Take the "A" Train

by James Nichols
April 1, 2001

4.25 out of 5 Stars. Very worthy album. Nothing too unusual here. During his lifetime, Dexter Gordon played thousands of outstanding small group bop dates. This CD documents one of them. Gordon recorded this set during a two-day period (July 20-21, 1967) of his self -imposed European exile at Copenhagen’s Montmarte Club. That two-day stand also yielded the albums Both Sides of Midnight and Body and Soul. The European label Black Lion has previously issued these performances. Now available from ...

Dexter Gordon: Take the "A" Train

by James Nichols
April 1, 2001

4.25 out of 5 Stars. Very worthy album. Nothing too unusual here. During his lifetime, Dexter Gordon played thousands of outstanding small group bop dates. This CD documents one of them. Gordon recorded this set during a two-day period (July 20-21, 1967) of his self -imposed European exile at Copenhagen’s Montmarte Club. That two-day stand also yielded the albums Both Sides of Midnight and Body and Soul. The European label Black Lion has previously issued these performances. Now available from ...

Dexter Gordon: Take the "A" Train

by James Nichols
April 1, 2001

During his lifetime, Dexter Gordon played thousands of outstanding small group bop dates. This CD documents one of them.

Gordon recorded this set during a two-day period (July 20-21, 1967) of his self -imposed European exile at Copenhagen’s Montmarte Club. That two-day stand also yielded the albums Both Sides of Midnight and Body and Soul. The European label Black Lion has previously issued these performances. Now available from 1201 Music, this edition has particularly good sound quality thanks to a ...