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Dexter Gordon
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Like Art Pepper's, Dexter Gordon's high-grade productive later career was blessed with the presence of marvellous George Cables on piano. There's a startling unaccompanied piano solo in the middle of the opening track to Manhattan Symphonie, "As Time Goes By". Apparently Gordon taught his pianist the tune, which he wanted very much to play.
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In 1955, Gordon recorded for the first time in three years. He recorded two LPs for the Bethlehem label, including one with Stan Levey and one under his own name, Daddy Plays the Horn. He ... recorded a session for the Dootone label, released as Dexter Blows Hot and Cool. As Gitler says “all…(of these recordings)…demonstrate Gordon’s quicksilver swing, his audacity in the upper register, his tonal power and the apt use he makes of inflection whenever he contrasts a sustained note with those complex, ellowing phrases he manages with so expert a sense of time.”
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