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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 ...
Dexter Gordon: The Complete Prestige Recordings
by Charlie B. Dahan
October 12th bears witness to a superb all-inclusive examination of one of jazz's great saxophone players and composers, Dexter Gordon. The eleven-disc collection The Complete Prestige Recordings contains eighty-eight tracks. Of those, most are from Gordon's repertoire as a bandleader, with a few tracks included as a sideman or co-leader with Gene Ammons, Wardell Gray and ...
Dexter Gordon: The Complete Prestige Sessions
by Craig Jolley
Dexter Gordon The Complete Prestige Sessions Prestige 2004 In company with Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane Dexter Gordon was recognized as one of the tenor sax giants of his era. (I'd say Stan Getz made as many classic records as the others, but he was “just" a great ...
Bootsie Barnes: Bootsie Barnes: Boppin' Round the Center
by Victor L. Schermer
This CD featuring Bootsie Barnes and a group assembled for the occasion has one characteristic uncommon in an era of so-called 'smooth jazz,' rap singing, and canned music for every occasion from cinematically simulated inner city rumbles to drugs for erectile dysfunction. It really swings! It also 'bops around the center!' (I truly don't know what ...
Dexter Gordon: A Musical Biography
by Larry Koenigsberg
by Stan Britt Da Capo Press (New York, 1989) Although there's plenty of fascinating material in this show-biz biography of the great master of bebop tenor saxophone, it's so permeated with gush and hyperbole that it requires some tolerance to sift through it for Gordon's story. The details are there, though, from his upbringing ...
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