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Dexter Gordon

Dexter Gordon

Tenor saxophonist. A big, unhurried sound that sat just behind the beat, from the bebop of the forties to Paris, Copenhagen and the Village Vanguard.

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The Records

Coming Nights

  1. Go, played whole by a quartet

    Village Vanguard, New York

    Thursday 22 OCT

    Tickets

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

    New Morning, Paris

    Thursday 5 NOV

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

    Jazzhus Montmartre, Copenhagen

    Thursday 19 NOV

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

    Bimhuis, Amsterdam

    Thursday 3 DEC

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  5. Homecoming: the Vanguard stand of 1976

    Ronnie Scott’s, London

    Sunday 20 DEC

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On Film

In the Press

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

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