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Format: CD
Nov 1996
6 Discs
Record Label: Blue Note Records (USA)
Recording Type: Studio
UPC: 724383420025 |
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Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. I Was Doing Allright
2. I Want More
3. You've Changed
4. Society Red
5. For Regulars Only - (alternate take)
6. It's You or No One
7. For Regulars Only
8. Landslide
9. Modal Mood
10. Clear the Dex
11. Boy Saxophonist - (mono)
DISC 2:
1. Soul Sister
2. Smile
3. Ernie's Tune
4. I Want More
5. End of a Love Affair, The
6. Serenade in Blue
7. You Said It
8. Love Locked Out
9. Blue Gardenia
10. Second Balcony Jump
11. Six Bits Jones
12. Lady Be Good - (previously unreleased)
13. On Be Bop - (mono)
DISC 3:
1. Three O'Clock in the Morning
2. Second Balcony Jump
3. Where Are You?
4. Cheese Cake
5. I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry
6. Love For Sale
7. Mcsplivens
8. Backbone, The
9. Soy Califa
10. Until the Real Thing Comes Along
11. You Stepped Out of a Dream
12. Don't Explain
DISC 4:
1. Our Love Is Here to Stay
2. Broadway
3. Stairway to the Stars
4. Night in Tunisia, A
5. Willow Weep For Me
6. Scrapple From the Apple
7. Coppin' the Haven
8. Tanya
9. It All Began... - (mono)
DISC 5:
1. Kong Neptune
2. Darn That Dream
3. Hanky Panky
4. Devilette
5. Clubhouse
6. Jodi
7. I'm a Fool to Want You
8. Lady Iris B
DISC 6:
1. Le Coiffeur
2. Manha de Carnaval
3. Flick of a Trick
4. Everybody's Somebody's Fool
5. Very Saxily Yours
6. Shiny Stockings
7. Who Can I Turn To
8. Heartaches
9. Dexter on Bird - (mono)
Album Notes
Personnel: Dexter Gordon (tenor saxophone, spoken vocals); Sonny Stitt (tenor saxophone); Freddie Hubbard, Tommy Turrentine, Dave Burns, Donald Byrd (trumpet); Bobby Hutcherson (vibraphone); Horace Parlan, Kenny Drew, Sir Charles Thompson, Sonny Clark, Bud Powell, Barry Harris (piano); Don Patterson (organ); Paul Weeden (guitar); George Tucker, Paul Chambers, Al Lucas, Ron Carter, Butch Warren, Pierre Michelot, Neils-Henning Orsted Pederson, Bob Cranshaw (bass); Al Harewood, Philly Joe Jones, Willie Bobo, Billy James, Billy Higgins, Kenny Clarke, Art Taylor (drums).
Producers: Alfred Lion, Francis Wolf.
Compilation producers: Michael Cuscuna, Maxine Gordon.
Engineers include: Rudy Van Gelder, Malcolm Addey.
Recorded at Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey between May 6, 1961 and May 29, 1965, and CBS Studios, Paris, France on May 23, 1963 and June 2, 1964. Includes liner notes by Dan Morgenstern, Bruce Lundvall, Maxine Gordon and Michael Cuscuna.
This is IT--the complete sessions of one of jazz's greatest tenor saxophonists for one of the world's premier jazz labels. During the flowering of bebop, Gordon was among the first sax players to translate Charlie Parker's ideas from the alto to the tenor. In the '60s, the sound had more of an edge--hence, hard bop--and Gordon was right there. Still, the man could deliver a ballad to melt the hardest of hearts. Witness his soloing on the ballad standard "Where Are You?"--warm and mellow, but with a gutsy, robust core.
As a bonus, this set features many jazz figures who either came into their own or were at the height of their powers in the '60s, as well as some neglected figures. The great pianist/composer Sonny Clark, present on much of this set, was an overlooked innovator who was later paid tribute by modern avant-icon composer/saxophonist John Zorn. Freddie Hubbard, Billy Higgins, Bobby Hutcherson and Horace Parlan accompanied Gordon on some of the best straight-ahead jazz albums of the period, and are included here as well. Inventive, imaginative, solid, swinging, this is the perfect gift from/to a tenor sax lover.
Industry Reviews
...In this meticulously remastered six-disc reprise of Gordon's ebullient Blue Note tenure, his majesterial tenor orates with Olympian authority....This extraordinary testament to jazz as serious fun promises to be a `must' for fans of Gordon, of jazz, and, indeed, of life itself...
JazzTimes (04/01/1997)
5 Stars (out of 5) - ...a splendid box, bringing together a consistently terrific period in the up-down life of Long Tall Dex.
Down Beat (02/01/1997)
In their authority and depth, the explosive '60s Blue Note recordings of tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon rival the contemporaneous work of such masters as Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane... - Rating: A
Entertainment Weekly (12/20/1996)
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