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Dexter Gordon: Gettin' Around
by Samuel Chell
"The Tower of Power," “Long Tall," “LT"--you don't acquire such noms de troubadour by being retiring or inconspicuous in your approach to making music. Indeed, Dexter Gordon is such a forceful presence and commanding storyteller that he can be a heavy load, requiring nothing less than the listener's undivided attention. Gettin' Around, a 2006 release of ...
Dexter Gordon: Gettin' Around
by Paul Ryan
It is no secret that Dexter Gordon relocated to Europe for much of the 1960s, but he did return to the US sporadically for recording sessions. This recently reissued album, recorded at Rudy Van Gelder's legendary Englewood Cliffs studio, was cut during one of those return visits. The musicians who join L.T.D. are some ...
Dexter Gordon: Gettin' Around
by Chris May
An arterial link between Lester Young and the hard bop tenor saxophonists of the late '50s and early '60s, Dexter Gordon's brilliance and significance are today remembered mostly as an afterthought. Partly this is Gordon's own fault: after his prolific vanguard activities of the '40s, the '50s were for him a wasteland of heroin addiction, with ...
Ladybird
Label: SteepleChase Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Ladybird/ So What/ Who Can I Turn To?/ Blues By Five.
Bopland
Label: Savoy Jazz
Released: 2005
Track listing: Disc 1 - 1. Tune up/Announcement (2:44) 2. Bopera (aka Disorder at the Border) (19:18) 3. What Is This Thing Called Love? (13:35) 4. Body and Soul (1:31) 5. Back Breaker (16:22). Disc 2 - 1. Tune up/Announcement (2:09) 2. Bopland (19:07) 3. Bop After Hours (18:28) 4. The Hunt (12:08). Disc 3 - 1. Perdido (20:21) 2. Merry Go Round Blues (0:12) 3. Blowin' With Bass (5:04) 4. Blow, Blow, Blow (14:00) 5. Geronimo (Cherokee) (21:21) 6. Unknown Theme take 1 (0:51) 7. Unknown Theme take 2 (0:53).
Dexter Gordon: Bopland
by Ken Franckling
Despite its mixed sonic quality, Bopland is a historic three-CD treasure. It contains as much as could be gleaned from surviving acetates of a July 6, 1947 jazz summit featuring some of the West Coast's finest emerging musicians at the time. It was a mere two to three years after Charlie Parker and his collaborators began ...
