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Gravity and Resurgence: The Many Dimensions of Dexter Gordon

by Arthur R George
February 6, 2025

Long Tall Dexter; swinger, bebopper, saxophone balladeer; acting the dissipated genius expatriate who was not unlike himself in the movie Round Midnight; his dressed-up persona “Society Red;" the laconic elder statesman of his later years. Dexter Gordon is all those things, but more than a kaleidoscope of caricatures. Those who trace their lineages through ...

Live At Fabrik Vol. 1

By Marshall Royal

Label: Jazzline Classics
Released: 2023
Track listing: Bluesbird Blues; Please Send Me Someone To Love; Shiny Stockings; Everything Happens To Me; This Is All I Ask; I’m Confessin’ That I Love You; Little Pony.

Basie All Stars: Live At Fabrik Vol. 1

by Chris May
March 13, 2023

Such are the glories of his band's recorded legacy from the 1930s through the 1950s, that the mere mention of Count Basie's name will trigger a Pavlovian response from his fan base. Like no other, the Count Basie Orchestra epitomised big-band swing at its most sublime; reefer fuelled, riff based, loose and louche Kansas City jazz ...

Good Morning Blues

by Richard J Salvucci
January 11, 2018

Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie as told to Albert Murray William James Basie 399 Pages ISBN: 978-1-5179-0143-1 University of Minnesota Press 2016 (1985) In May 1959 Count Basie and his Orchestra played a “Breakfast Dance and Barbecue," like back in Kansas City, hosted by Roulette ...

Live At The 1990 Concord Jazz Festival Third Set

By Ernestine Anderson

Label: Concord Jazz
Released: 1991
Track listing: Blues In The Closet; I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart; I Should Care; There Is No Greater Love; Skylark; On My Own; Never Make Your Move Too Soon;