Name: Live in Chateauvallon 1978
Brand: Dexter Gordon

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5990435

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Limited edition

Release date

2021-02-12

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Dexter Gordon

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Jazz

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Dexter Gordon was a renowned tenor saxophonist during the bebop era. Born on February 27, 1923 in Los Angeles, California, he drew inspiration from influential tenor players of the 1930s and 1940s such as Lester Young, Herschel Evans, and Illinois Jacquet. With his distinctive sound and improvisational skills, Gordon made a significant impact on jazz music.

Throughout his career, Dexter Gordon collaborated with numerous talented musicians including Oliver Nelson, Sonny Rollins, Hank Mobley, Kenny Dorham, Jackie McLean, Freddie Hubbard, Sonny Stitt, Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, Joe Henderson, Clifford Brown and many more.

Gordon's legacy lives on through his timeless recordings and contributions to the jazz genre. His unique style continues to inspire aspiring musicians around the world.

1978 was a banner year for Dexter Gordon. Maxine Gordon (then Gregg) had started to manage his career and proved to be a one woman tour de force in marketing and booking a jazz giant who had been largely forgotten in his home country. Signing with Columbia changed Dexter’s life in many ways, boosting his career, increasing his work opportunities, giving him enough security to move from Copenhagen to New York and allowing him to form and groom his own working band for the first time in his life at age 52! The wonderful quartet included George Cables on piano, Rufus Reid on bass, and Eddie Gladden on drums and was at its peak from its first notes to its last gig, as this November 8, 1978 concert at the Châteauvallon Jazz Festival bears out. Dexter is in a joyous and fiery mood, peppering his solos with outrageous quotes from other songs and stretching out.

Live in Chateauvallon 1978

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