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Dexter Gordon
New York, USA
- Tenor saxophonist
- Composer
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.
Records
Coming Attractions
NOV5
Our Man in Paris: Scrapple from the Apple, Willow Weep for Me, Stairway to the Stars
ThursdayNew Morning, Paris
NOV19
The Chase: two tenors, after Gordon and Gray
ThursdayJazzhus Montmartre, Copenhagen
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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 Gordon, On 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, pianist, Marcus 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 Gordon, Interview with Les Tomkins, Jazz Professional, 1962
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