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Dexter Gordon: Ladybird
by Derek Taylor
The latest offering from the seemingly bottomless Danmarks Radio Archive, Ladybird presents another air shot of Gordon's lengthy mid-1960s Café Montmarte stint. Dex's sizable cachet as an expatriate jazz icon prompted a nightly spooling of the tape machines. The resulting cache, so far doled out one set at a time, documents a particularly fertile time for ...
Dexter Gordon: Mosaic Select 14
by John Kelman
Dexter Gordon Mosaic Select 14 Mosaic Records (B2-70985) 2004 While tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon, long considered the bebop progenitor on his axe, recorded a number of classic sides for Blue Note in the '60s, including Go! and A Swingin' Affair , as well as seminal albums for ...
Heartaches
Label: SteepleChase Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Heartaches (14:16)/ Devilette (12:27)/ You've Changed (10:20)/ Introduction (:58)/ So What (9:44).
Dexter Gordon: The Complete Prestige Recordings
Label: Prestige Records
Released: 2004
Track listing:
Dexter Gordon: The Complete Prestige Sessions
Label: Prestige Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Move/Home Run/Dolo/Lovely Lisa/Affair in Havana/Jodi/Field Day/Setting the Pace/Dexter's Deck/Montmartre/Lady Bird/Sticky Wicket/Montmartre (alternate take)/Lady Bird (alternate take)/Sticky Wicket (alternate take)/Those Were the Days/Stanley the Steamer/The Rainbow People/Boston Bernie/Meditation (Meditacao)/Fried Bananas/Dinner For One Please, James/Stanley the Steamer (alternate take)/The Rainbow People (alternate take)/Boston Bernie (alternate take)/Fried Bananas (alternate take)/Broadway/Boston Bernie/In A Sentimental Mood/Blues Up and Down/Rhythm-a-ning/Misty/Love For Sale/Fried Bananas/Sophisticated Lady/Rhythm-a-ning/Body and Soul/Blue Monk/The Panther (two versions)/Body and Soul/Valse Robin/Mrs. Miniver/The Christmas Song/Blues Walk/Valse Robin (alternate take)/Mrs. Miniver (alternate take)/Blues Walk (alternate take)/Polka Dots and Moonbeams/Wee Dot/The Happy Blues/Lonesome Lover Blues (alternate take)/Medley: Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be)/I Can't Get Started /My Funny Valentine/Misty/The Chase/Lonesome Lover Blues/Evergreenish/Rhythm-a-ning/For Sentimental Reasons (I Love You)/Star Eyes/The Jumpin' Blues/Evergreenish (alternate take)/Rhythm-a-ning (alternate take)/For Sentimental Reasons (alternate take)/Star Eyes (alternate take)/The Jumpin' Blues (alternate take)/Milestones/Scared to Be Alone/The Group/Days of Wine and Roses/We See/Milestones (alternate take)/Scared to Be Alone (alternate take)/The Group (alternate take)/Ca' Purange (Jungle Soul)/Tangerine/The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face/What It Was/Airegin/Oh! Karen/Airegin (alternate take)August Blues/Gingerbread Boy/Blues A la Suisse/Some Other Spring/Secret Love/Tivoli/Treux Bleu
The Complete Prestige Recordings
Label: Prestige Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: DISC 1:
1. Move
2. Home Run
3. Dolo
4. Lovely Lisa
5. Affair in Havana
6. Jodi Field Day
7. Setting the Pace
DISC 2:
1. Dexter's Deck
2. Montmartre
3. Lady Bird
4. Sticky Wicket
5. Montmartre - (alternate take)
6. Lady Bird - (alternate take)
DISC 3:
1. Sticky Wicket - (alternate take)
2. Those Were the Days
3. Stanley the Steamer
4. Rainbow People, The
5. Boston Bernie
6. Meditation (Medita_no)
7. Fried Bananas
8. Dinner For One Please, James
9. Stanley the Steamer - (alternate take)
10. Rainbow People, The - (alternate take)
DISC 4:
1. Boston Bernie - (alternate take)
2. Fried Bananas - (alternate take)
3. Boradway
4. Boston Bernie
5. In A Sentimental Mood
6. Blues Up and Down
DISC 5:
1. Rhythm-a-ning
2. Misty
3. Love For Sale
4. Fried Bananas
5. Sophisticated Lady
DISC 6:
1. Rhythm-a-ning
2. Body and Soul
3. Blue Monk
4. Panther, The - (two versions)
5. Body and Soul
6. Valse Robin
7. Mrs. Miniver
8. Christmas Song, The
DISC 7:
1. Blues Walk
2. Valse Robin - (alternate take)
3. Mrs. Miniver - (alternate take)
4. Blues Walk - (alternate take)
5. Polka Dots and Moonbeams
6. Wee Dot
7. Happy Blues, The
8. Lonesome Lover Blues - (alternate take)
DISC 8:
1. Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be): I Can't Get Started / My Funny Valentine / Misty / Medley
2. Chase, The
3. Lonesome Lover Blues
4. Evergreenish
5. Rhythm-a-ning
6. For Sentimental Reasons (I Love You)
7. Star Eyes
8. Jumpin' Blues, The
DISC 9:
1. Evergreenish - (alternate take)
2. Rhythm-a-ning - (alternate take)
3. For Sentimental Reasons - (alternate take)
4. Star Eyes - (alternate take)
5. Jumpin' Blues, The - (alternate take)
6. Milestones
7. Sacred to Be Alone
8. Group, The
9. Days of Wine and Roses
10. We See
DISC 10:
1. Milestones - (alternate take)
2. Scared to Be Alone - (alternate take)
3. Group, The - (alternate take)
4. Ca' Purange (Jungle Soul)
5. Tangerine
6. First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, The
7. What It Was
8. Alegrin
9. Oh! Karen O
10. Alegrin - (alternate take)
DISC 11:
1. August Blues
2. Gingerbread Boy
3. Blues B la Suisse
4. Some Other Spring
5. Secret Love
6. Tivoli
7. Treux Bleu
Dexter Gordon: The Complete Prestige Recordings
by John Kelman
Dexter Gordon The Complete Prestige Recordings Prestige (11PRCD-4442-2) 2004 “Even his walk is bebop" ~Bernard Tavernier, director of Round Midnight “The 6 foot 5 gentle giant of a man was also the personification of urbane wit and sophistication." ~Bruce Lundvall When ...
Maurice Brown: Hip to Bop
by John Kelman
Sometimes it's not a good thing when young artists release their own records before they have the opportunity to pay some dues. They may possess admirable technique but have yet to develop a rounded conception that gives their music focus. A precocious trumpeter who, at the age of 23, has already played with a wide range ...
Dexter Gordon: Heartaches
by Derek Taylor
Steeplechase takes its Dexter Gordon stewardship seriously. Last year occasioned the label's release of a box set covering the saxophonist's Complete Quartet and Trio Studio Sessions. In the months since that monumental release, air-shots from concerts at the Montmarte Jazz Haus circa summer 1965 have made their way into circulation. This latest entry finds Dex fronting ...
