Dexter Gordon : Our Man In Paris

TSF Jazz will broadcast this evening, at 19.00 PM Paris time , a program in honor of Dexter Gordon and his recording session of Our Man In Paris.

Guests are Maxine Gordon, who prepares a biography, and Lew Tabackin.

More info is available here.

Dexter Gordon in Abu Dhabi

Dexter Gordon on Abu Dhabi Classic FM

As of yesterday, and as part of the year-long Dexter Gordon 90th Birthday Anniversary, Abu Dhabi Classic FM pays homage to Dexter everyday until Thursday this week, featuring his classic recordings and concluding with a series of CD give-aways.

Date: Monday April 15 - Thursday April 18, 2013
Time: 11AM - 2PM EST
Where: http://www.adradio.ae/abudhabiclassicfm

Looking for some Dexter Gordon

To complete my Dexter Gordon collection i'm looking for some tracks of concerts which i have already a copy but which are incomplete :

(date, place, tracks which are missing)
1964.07.30, Molde Kino, Molde : "I want more"
1973.04.28, Jazzhus Montmartre, Copenhagen : only 3 tracks in my possession i miss 7 tracks
1976.07.27, Avignon : 'On Green Dolphin Street"
1983.01.21, Teatro Turismo, Riccione : "Rhythm A Ning"

If you happen to have this tracks or recordings please get in touch. If you have other rare Dexter Gordon shows you are always welcome to get in touch as well.

Thanks in advance !

Dexter Gordon : Complete Columbia Albums Collection

Dexter Gordon - The Complete Columbia Albums Collection

The best of Dexter Gordon's Columbia albums all in one bundle!

• 6 great albums on 7 CDs!
• Each individual album is packaged in a replica mini-LP sleeve reproducing that album’s original cover art.
• The booklet  includes full discographical info., rare photos, and liner notes!
• Box set produced by Michael Cuscuna, co-directed by Woody Shaw III, with liner notes by Cuscuna and Gordon's widow and long-time manager, Maxine Gordon.

There are no second acts in American lives” wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald, a man who never would have put those words to paper had he lived to see Dexter Gordon’s triumphant late career revival.  Actually, the great tenor saxophonist had a number of “second acts” during his lifetime. Yet the late 1980’s flourish that found Gordon (1923-1990) an international star and an Oscar nominee could hardly be topped for a dramatic finale.

Gordon may have come of age in the Swing Era worshipping the dual tenor deities Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young, but he made his mark during the subsequent rise of bebop, translating Charlie Parker’s revolutionary rhythmic and harmonic language to the tenor saxophone.  From 1945 to 1962 “long tall Dexter” (LTD) maintained his status as one of the unimpeachable tenor titans, notwithstanding prison spells that somehow never stalled his momentum. Relocating to Europe, Gordon, his ear ever open to stylistic changes in jazz, retained his celebrity.
On returning Stateside in 1976, Gordon was signed by Columbia Records, who documented him on the celebratory Homecoming: Live At The Village Vanguard.  Subsequent albums found Gordon, still in fighting shape and now receiving higher public visibility than ever before, turning out a series of acclaimed recordings that united him with younger associates including Bobby Hutcherson, Woody Shaw, and George Cables.


Gordon’s ultra hip manner and regal bearing made him a natural for films, and in 1986, he starred in Round Midnight in a role loosely based on both Bud Powell and Lester Young, ultimately garnering a deserving Academy Award nomination. (Gordon also appeared in the posthumously released Awakenings alongside Robert DeNiro and Robin Williams.)  He went out a “star, ” a role he had already embodied in the jazz world for some five decades.


Albums included:

1. Homecoming: Live At The Village Vanguard [2 CDs] (1976)
2. Sophisticated Giant (1977)
3. Manhattan Symphonie (1978)
4. Live At Carnegie Hall (1978)
5. Gotham City (1980)
6. Bonus Tracks ( a new compilation disc of bonus material)

Available here 

Edit : don't forget to check out the Official Dexter Gordon website with lots of additional information and interviews!