Dexter Gordon - Complete Blue Note Sixties Sessions

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This is IT--the complete sessions of one of jazz's greatest tenor saxophonists for one of the world's premier jazz labels. During the flowering of bebop, Gordon was among the first sax players to translate Charlie Parker's ideas from the alto to the tenor. In the '60s, the sound had more of an edge--hence, hard bop--and Gordon was right there. Still, the man could deliver a ballad to melt the hardest of hearts. Witness his soloing on the ballad standard "Where Are You?"--warm and mellow, but with a gutsy, robust core.

As a bonus, this set features many jazz figures who either came into their own or were at the height of their powers in the '60s, as well as some neglected figures. The great pianist/composer Sonny Clark, present on much of this set, was an overlooked innovator who was later paid tribute by modern avant-icon composer/saxophonist John Zorn. Freddie Hubbard, Billy Higgins, Bobby Hutcherson and Horace Parlan accompanied Gordon on some of the best straight-ahead jazz albums of the period, and are included here as well. Inventive, imaginative, solid, swinging, this is the perfect gift from/to a tenor sax lover.

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Dexter GordonThe Complete Blue Note Sixties Sessions

1961-1965

Tracks

Cd. 1

1 I Was Doing All Right (Gershwin, Gershwin) 9:16
2 I Want More (Gordon) 6:09
3 You've Changed (Carey, Fischer) 7:26
4 Society Red (Gordon) 12:20
5 For Regulars Only (Gordon) 6:21
6 It's You or No One (Cahn, Styne) 6:12
7 For Regulars Only (Gordon) 5:43
8 Landslide (Gordon) 5:13
9 Modal Mood (Drew) 5:20
10 Clear the Dex (Drew) 4:50
11 Boy Saxophonist [Monologue] (Gordon) 4:40

Cd. 2

1 Soul Sister (Gordon) 7:42
2 Smile (Chaplin, Parsons, Turner) 3:19
3 Ernie's Tune (Gordon) 4:13
4 I Want More (Gordon) 5:16
5 The End of a Love Affair (Redding) 6:49
6 Serenade in Blue (Gordon, Warren) 5:00
7 You Said It (Turrentine) 4:28
8 Love Locked Out (Kester, Noble) 4:45
9 Blue Gardenia (Lee, Russell) 6:40
10 Second Balcony Jump (Eckstine, Valentine) 5:58
11 Six Bits Jones (Matthews) 6:41
12 Oh, Lady Be Good (Gershwin, Gershwin) 8:04
13 On Be Bop [Monologue] 3:55

Cd. 3

1 Three O'Clock in the Morning (Robledo, Terriss) 5:40
2 Second Balcony Jump (Eckstine, Valentine) 7:03
3 Where Are You ? (Adamson, McHugh) 5:18
4 Cheese Cake (Gordon) 6:30
5 Guess I'll Hang My Tears Outto Dry (Cahn, Styne) 5:19
6 Love for Sale (Porter) 7:34
7 McSplivens (Gordon) 5:41
8 The Backbone (Warren) 6:46
9 Soy Califa (Gordon) 6:24
10 Until the Real Thing Comes Along (Cahn, Chaplin, Freeman, Holiner…) 6:46
11 You Stepped Out of a Dream (Brown, Kahn) 6:31
12 Don't Explain (Herzog, Holiday) 6:03


Cd. 4

1 Love Is Here to Stay (Gershwin, Gershwin) 5:37
2 Broadway (Bird, McRae, Wood) 6:43
3 Stairway to the Stars (Malneck, Parish, Signorelli) 6:55
4 A Night in Tunisia (Gillespie, Paparelli) 8:15
5 Willow Weep for Me (Ronell) 8:46
6 Scrapple from the Apple (Parker) 7:19
7 Coppin' the Heaven (Drew) 11:16
8 Tanya (Byrd) 18:16
9 It All Began [Monologue] 4:04

Cd. 5

1 King Neptune (Gordon) 11:00
2 Darn That Dream (DeLange, VanHeusen) 7:29
3 Hanky Panky (Gordon) 6:29
4 Devilette (Tucker) 7:03
5 Clubhouse (Gordon) 7:31
6 Jodi (Gordon) 5:38
7 I'm a Fool to Want You (Herron, Sinatra, Wolf) 6:41
8 Lady Iris B (Stevenson) 5:38

Cd. 6

1 Le Coiffeur (Gordon) 6:57
2 Manha de Carnaval (Bonfa, Maria) 8:21
3 Flick of a Trick (Gordon) 10:28
4 Everybody's Somebody's Fool (Adamson, Hampton) 6:43
5 Very Saxily Yours (Matthews) 6:50
6 Shiny Stockings (Foster) 6:15
7 Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me) (Bricusse, Newley) 5:12
8 Heartaches (Hoffman, Klenner) 7:43
9 Dexter on Bird [Monologue] (Gordon) 4:29

Personnel

Featuring Dexter Gordon, Sonny Stitt, Freddie Hubbard, Tommy Turrentine, Dave Burns, Donald Byrd, Bobby Hutcherson, Horace Parlan, Kenny Drew, Sir Charles Thompson, Sonny Clark, Bud Powell, Barry Harris, Don Patterson, Paul Weeden, George Tucker, Paul Chambers, Al Lucas, Ron Carter, Butch Warren, Pierre Michelot, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Bob Cranshaw, Al Harewood, Philly Joe Jones, Willie Bobo, Billy James, Billy Higgins, Kenny Clarke, Art Taylor, etc.

Recorded at Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey between May 6, 1961 and May 29, 1965, and CBS Studios, Paris, France on May 23, 1963 and June 2, 1964