Dexter Gordon’s career as a jazz saxophonist began in the early ’40s playing with such greats as Nat King Cole, Lionel Hampton, and Dizzy Gillespie, but most of his following decade was derailed by ...

It is no secret that Dexter Gordon relocated to Europe for much of the 1960s, but he did return to the US sporadically for recording sessions. This recently reissued album, recorded at Rudy Van Gelder ...

When I bought this disc many years ago, the music manager of the now defunct Borders in Colonie, NY told me a story that for this record date Gordon had brought a number of complicated originals to ...

Dexter Gordon was a musical nomad. Across his career he drifted between the east and west coasts of America - and in the '60s, he also helped prop-up the bebop scene in Europe. Born in Los Angeles, ...

Dexter Gordon, the seminal tenor saxophonist of the bop movement, remained largely in the same framework of musical ideas from early in his career to his last recordings. Gordon, who was born in 1923, ...

I recently came across a Dexter Gordon title of unreleased material at the time of its issuance, 2018. The recording, captured in Europe and titled “Espace Cardin 1977” (Elemental), was comprised of ...