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Dexter Gordon: John Coltrane
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The legend of Dexter Gordon is documented extensively throughout countless recordings over the years. The Complete Prestige Recordings is a mammoth 11 CD set in tribute to a jazz giant that left behind an ineradicable mark in the annals of modern jazz music. This cat was so influential and groundbreaking that icons such as Coltrane were fascinated with his style and grace on the saxophone.
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The very cool Jazz Icons DVD series has announced the release of seven more titles, including concerts by Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Sarah Vaughan, Dexter Gordon, Wes Montgomery, Dave Brubeck, and Charles Mingus. There will ... be a boxed set that includes unreleased performances by some of the same artists. Is it Christmas yet?
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Recorded in Paris with fellow expatriates Bud Powell and Kenny Clarke, this effort captures Dexter Gordon at his most powerful, mature, free, and inventive. By 1963, he'd picked up a few tricks from Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane, two legends who Gordon himself had greatly influenced in the 1940s. Gordon's playing now included honks and squeaks, but most significantly, it had a bluntness to it--blunt in terms of direct communication, but ... blunt and sawed-off rather than sharp and round. It had an element of "flatness" to it, almost sounding as if he was ever-so-slightly off key.
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