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Dexter Gordon Dexter Gordon Dexter Gordon, sommo stilista dello strumento principe del jazz, il sax tenore, ha sviluppato la sua carriera tra gli Stati Uniti e l’Europa, dove ha soggiornato per lunghi anni e ha raggiunto i risultati più alti negli anni ’60, portando ai massimi livelli la jam session e la improvvisazione con gruppi sempre diversi, che hanno visto suonare con lui altri grandi jazzisti itineranti dell’epoca, come i trombettisti Donald Byrd o Freddie Hubbard, il vibrafonista Bobby Hutcherson, e con diverse formidabili sezioni ritmiche, formate dai bassisti Bobby Cranshaw, Paul Chambers, Niel-Henning Orsted Pedersen, i batteristi Philly Joe Jones e Billy Higgins, i pianisti Kenny Drew, Sonny Clark, Horace Parlan e Bud Powell. Anno Titolo Ospiti Label 1945 Move Spotlite 1945 Long Tall Dexter Savoy 1945 New Trends in Modern Jazz, Vol. 3 Savoy 1945 Master Takes: The Savoy Recordings Savoy 1945 Dexter Rides Again Savoy Jazz 1947 The Chase! Prestige 1947 The Hunt Savoy 1947 The Duel Dial 1947 Dexter Gordon Quintet Dial 1955 Daddy Plays the Horn Bethlehem 1955 Dexter Blows Hot and Cool Boplicity 1960 The Resurgence of Dexter Gordon Jazzland 1961 Dexter Gordon Blue Note 1961 Doin' Alright Blue Note 1961 Landslide Blue Note 1961 Dexter Calling.... Blue Note 1962 Go! Blue Note 1962 A Swingin' Affair Blue Note 1962 Cry Me a River Steeple Chase 1963 Our Man in Paris Blue Note 1964 One Flight Up Donald Byrd Blue Note 1964 Cheesecake [live] Steeple Chase 1964 King Neptune [live] Steeple Chase 1964 I Want More [live] Steeple Chase 1964 Love for Sale [live] Steeple Chase 1964 It's You or No One [live] Steeple Chase 1964 Billie's Bounce [live] Steeple Chase 1964 After Hours Steeple Chase - 1 - 1964 After Midnight [live] Steeple Chase 1965 Clubhouse Blue Note 1965 Gettin' Around Bobby Hutcherson Blue Note 1967 Body and Soul 1201 Music 1967 Both Sides of Midnight Black Lion 1967 Live at the Montmartre Black Lion 1967 Take the "A" Train Black Lion Jazzhus 1967 Squirrel: Live at Montmartre Blue Note 1969 Live at the Amsterdam Paradiso Affinity 1969 Day in Copenhagen Polydor 1969 Power Prestige 1969 The Tower of Power Prestige 1969 More Power Prestige 1970 The Panther! Prestige/OJC 1970 Dexter Gordon at Montreux (With Junior Prestige Mance) 1970 Jumpin' Blues Prestige 1971 The Shadow of Your Smile Steeple Chase 1972 Ca' Purange Prestige 1972 Generation Prestige/OJC 1972 Tangerine Prestige 1973 Dexter Gordon-Sonny Grey with the Spotlite Georges... 1973 Parisian Concert [live] EPM 1973 Blues a La Suisse Prestige 1974 The Apartment Steeple Chase 1974 Revelation Steeple Chase 1975 More than You Know Steeple Chase 1975 Stable Mable Inner City 1975 Swiss Nights, Vol. 1 [live] Inner City 1975 Swiss Nights, Vol. 2 [live] Steeple Chase 1975 Swiss Nights, Vol. 3 Steeple Chase 1975 Something Different Steeple Chase 1975 Bouncin' with Dex Steeple Chase 1976 Strings and Things Steeple Chase 1976 Lullaby for a Monster Steeple Chase 1976 Biting the Apple Steeple Chase 1976 Featuring Joe Newman Monad 1976 Homecoming: Live at the Village Columbia Vanguard - 2 - 1976 True Blue Xanadu 1977 Sophisticated Giant Columbia 1977 Midnight Dream West Wind 1978 Nights at the Keystone, Vols. 1-3 [live] Blue Note 1978 Nights at the Keystone, Vol. 2 [live] Blue Note 1978 Nights at the Keystone, Vol. 1 [live] Blue Note 1978 Nights at the Keystone, Vol. 3 [live] Blue Note 1978 Great Encounters Columbia 1978 Manhattan Symphonie Columbia 1980 Gotham City Columbia 1981 Jive Fernando Chiaroscuro 1985 'Round Midnight Columbia 1985 The Other Side of Round Midnight Blue Note 1990 Jazz Concert: West Coast [live] Savoy 1995 Dexter Gordon & Joe Newman Monad 1995 Dexterity Jazz World 1995 Those Were the Days Moon 1995 Gordon Cantata Westwind 1996 There Will Never Eclipse Music 1996 Swedish Nights Steeple Chase 1996 Backstairs E.J. 1997 Tenor Titans Storyville 1997 Bebop Masters Indigo 1998 Live at Montmartre Jazz Colours 2001 L.T.D. Live at the Left Bank Prestige 2001 Lionel Hampton Presents Dexter Gordon Who's Who In Jazz 2001 Hot and Cool West Wind 2001 Lionel Hampton and Dexter Gordon Allegro (in rosso i dischi maggiormente consigliati) Bibliografia "Long Tall Dexter - the discography of Dexter Gordon", Thorbjørn Sjøgren, Copenhagen 1986. "Long Tall Dexter - a critical musical biography of Dexter Gordon", Stan Britt, Quartet Books 1989. (contiene una breve discografia) "More than you know - Dexter Gordon i Danmark", Leonard Malone, Ashehoug 1996 (Copenhagen). (in danese, in preparazione versione in inglese) - 3 - Link http://hotel.prosa.dk/~jes/dexter/ http://members.aol.com/jaz206/profiles/gordon.html/ - 4 - .
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