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Dexter Gordon

Saxophoniste ténor / Compositeur / Saxophone ténor / New York, États-Unis

Dexter Gordon
Programmer un concertProchaines dates

Saxophoniste ténor. Un son ample et sans hâte, toujours un peu derrière le temps, du bebop des années quarante à Paris, Copenhague et le Village Vanguard.

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  1. Go, played whole by a quartet

    Village Vanguard, New York

    jeudi 22 OCT 2026

    Billets: Go, played whole by a quartet (s’ouvre dans un nouvel onglet)

  2. Our Man in Paris: Scrapple from the Apple, Willow Weep for Me, Stairway to the Stars

    New Morning, Paris

    jeudi 5 NOV 2026

    Billets: Our Man in Paris: Scrapple from the Apple, Willow Weep for Me, Stairway to the Stars (s’ouvre dans un nouvel onglet)

  3. The Chase: two tenors, after Gordon and Gray

    Jazzhus Montmartre, Copenhagen

    jeudi 19 NOV 2026

  4. Round Midnight, the film, with the music played live

    Bimhuis, Amsterdam

    jeudi 3 DÉC 2026

    Billets: Round Midnight, the film, with the music played live (s’ouvre dans un nouvel onglet)

  5. Homecoming: the Vanguard stand of 1976

    Ronnie Scott’s, London

    dimanche 20 DÉC 2026

    Billets: Homecoming: the Vanguard stand of 1976 (s’ouvre dans un nouvel onglet)

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Notes de pochette

There was so much love and elation; sometimes it was a little eerie at the Vanguard. After the last set they’d turn on the lights and nobody would move.
Dexter GordonOn his homecoming at the Village Vanguard, 1976; quoted in Dale Chapman, The Jazz Bubble, 2018
Dexter would get up to the microphone, holding his horn horizontally, and he’d say ‘You must remember this, a kiss is still a kiss, a sigh is just a sigh.’ It was a little bit of a shtick, but it was how he approached a song, and I remember that.
Dave Bass, pianistMarcus Crowder, There’s no resting for pianist Dave Bass, McClatchy, 24 June 2011
Your tone, your sound is inside of you. You hear it before you produce it. The real ingredient of the sound is within the individual—the way he hears things.
Dexter GordonInterview with Les Tomkins, Jazz Professional, 1962

Programmer le quartette

Clubs, salles de concert et festivals, avec le quartette ou en soliste invité d’un big band ou d’un orchestre. Dites-nous la salle, la date et la jauge ; nous répondons sous deux jours.