Artist: Dexter Gordon
Title: The Complete Blue Note Sixties Sessions
Year Of Release: 2021
Label: Blue Note – 34200
Genre: Jazz
Quality: FLAC (tracks,cue,m3u,scans)
Total Time: 07:01:58
Total Size: 2.58 GB
Album Info
Dexter Gordon always had the quality of seeming to be speaking with you through the horn. In many ways, his sound and style are more the epitome of jazz than any one other musician. In and out of the scene because of an intermittent problem with heroin, the sixties were his most exciting period.
If you've heard Dexter before, than you know what this is like and can't do better than this set, which includes the great records "Go," "Dexter Calling" and "Our Man In Paris," the session with Bud Powell referred to, which may be his greatest record. For those not familiar and curious, Dexter is a straight-ahead hard-bop player in a lot of ways, the first tenor saxophonist to really adapt Charlie Parker's innovations. He was a contemporary of Trane and Rollins, a bit older, and his beautiful, full, wide-open sound was a definite influence on Trane, as well as Dexter's rich harmonic style of playing. The Sonny Rollins comparison doesn't work, different sounds and styles. The one place where they fit is in ballad playing, but no one, no one, not even Miles Davis, not Ben Webster, could play a ballad like Dexter Gordon.
CD1
1-1 I Was Doing Allright 9:12
1-2 I Want More 6:09
1-3 You've Changed 7:26
1-4 Society Red 12:20
1-5 For Regulars Only (Alt Take) 6:21
1-6 It's You Or No One 6:12
1-7 For Regulars Only 5:43
1-8 Landslide 5:13
1-9 Modal Mood 5:20
1-10 Clear The Dex 4:50
1-11 Boy Saxophonist (Monologue By Dexter Gordon) 4:40
CD2
2-1 Soul Sister 7:42
2-2 Smile 3:19
2-3 Ernie's Tune 4:13
2-4 I Want More 5:16
2-5 The End Of A Love Affair 6:49
2-6 Serenade In Blue 5:00
2-7 You Said It 4:28
2-8 Love Locked Out 4:45
2-9 Blue Gardenia 6:40
2-10 Second Balcony Jump 5:58
2-11 Six Bits Jones 6:14
2-12 Lady Be Good 8:04
2-13 On Be Bop 3:55
CD3
3-1 Three O'ClocK In The Morning 5:40
3-2 Second Balcony Jump 7:03
3-3 Where Are You? 5:18
3-4 Cheese Cake 6:30
3-5 I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry 5:19
3-6 Love For Sale 7:34
3-7 McSplivens 5:41
3-8 The Backbone 6:46
3-9 Soy Califa 6:24
3-10 Until The Real Thing Comes Along 6:46
3-11 You Stepped Out Of A Dream 6:31
3-12 Don't Explain 6:03
CD4
4-1 Our Love Is Here To Stay 5:37
4-2 Broadway 6:43
4-3 Stairway To The Stars 6:55
4-4 A Night In Tunisia 8:15
4-5 Willow Weep For Me 8:46
4-6 Scrapple From The Apple 7:19
4-7 Coppin' The Haven 11:16
4-8 Tanya 18:16
4-9 It All Began... 4:04
CD5
5-1 Kong Neptune 11:00
5-2 Darn That Dream 7:29
5-3 Hanky Panky 6:29
5-4 Devilette 7:03
5-5 Clubhouse 7:31
5-6 Jodi 5:38
5-7 I'm A Fool To Want You 6:41
5-8 Lady Iris B 5:38
CD6
6-1 Le Coiffeur 6:57
6-2 Manha De Carnival 8:21
6-3 Flick Of A Trick 10:28
6-4 Everybody's Somebody's Fool 6:43
6-5 Very Saxily Yours 6:50
6-6 Shiny Stockings 6:15
6-7 Who Can I Turn To 5:12
6-8 Heartaches 7:43
6-9 Dexter On Bird (Monologue By Dexter Gordon) 4:29
