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Perfection: Dexter Gordon's Society Red, 1961
In her memoir, Sophisticated Giant, Maxine Gordon writes this about her late husband, tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon: “Dexter Gordon was known as 'Society Red.' He got this name when he was with the Lionel Hampton band as a 17-year-old in 1940—just about the same time Malcolm X (then Malcolm Little) was being called Detroit Red. Dexter ...
Dexter Gordon: Doin' Allright
by Jim Santella
Dexter Gordon played smooth jazz before that description took on a whole new meaning. Coming up from the Lester Young and Coleman Hawkins tradition, and playing an active role in the start of bebop, Gordon spent a long, albeit interrupted, career keeping his popular tenor saxophone voice before the jazz public. In May of 1961, when ...
Doin' Allright
Label: Blue Note
Released: 1961
Track listing: I Was Doing All Right;
You've Changed;
For Regulars Only;
Society Red;
It's You or No One;
I Want More;
For Regulars Only [Alternate take].
