Artist: Dexter Gordon
Album: I Want More
Rating AMG: 4
Recording Date: Jul 9, 1964
Label: Steeplechase
Genre: Jazz, Styles: Bop, Hard-Bop
Time: 50:30
Format/Bitrate: mp3, 320 kbps
Size: 100+18 Mb
Вашему вниманию предлагается концертный альбом квартета Dexter Gordon'a.
Titles:
1. Introduction :30
2. I Want More (Gordon) 11:05
3. Come Rain or Come Shine (Arlen, Mercer) 12:01
4. Where Are You? (Adamson, McHugh) 9:32
5. I Want to Blow Now (Green) 11:56
6. Second Balcony Jump (Eckstine, Valentine) 5:26
Personel Dexter Gordon Quartet : Rune Carlsson - Drums, Dexter Gordon - Sax (Tenor), Vocals, Tete Montoliu - Piano, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen - Bass.
Продолжение текста / More textReview Scott Yanow, AMG:
SteepleChase has released on six CDs the radio broadcasts of Dexter Gordon and his 1964 Quartet (with pianist Tete Montoliu, bassist Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen and on this volume drummer Rune Carlsson) from Copenhagen's Montmartre Club. In adition to the title cut, Dexter and co. perform "Come Rain or Come Shine," "Where Are You," the fun "I Want to Blow Now" (which Gordon sings) and "Second Balcony Jump." Fans will want all of the releases in this enjoyable and well-recorded series..
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вторник, 2 сентября 2008 г.
Dexter Gordon - I Want More (1964)
Dexter Gordon - Love For Sale (1964)
Artist: Dexter Gordon
Album: Love For Sale
Rating AMG: 4
Recording Date: Jul 23, 1964
Label: Steeplechase
Genre: Jazz, Styles: Bop, Hard-Bop
Time: 51:52
Format/Bitrate: mp3, 320 kbps
Size: 100+19 Mb (rapidshare)
Вашему вниманию предлагается концертный альбом квартета Dexter Gordon'a.
Titles:
1. Intro 1:28
2. Love for Sale (Porter) 13:52
3. I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry (Cahn, Styne) 9:54
4. Big Fat Butterfly (Unknown) 7:01
5. Soul Sister (Gordon) 9:30
6. Cherokee (Noble) 10:01
Personel Dexter Gordon Quartet : Alex Riel - Drums, Dexter Gordon - Sax (Tenor), Vocals, Tete Montoliu - Piano, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen - Bass.
Продолжение текста / More textReview Scott Yanow, AMG:
Dexter Gordon and his Quartet of 1964 (pianist Tete Montoliu, bassist Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen and drummer Alex Riel) had a three-month engagement at the Montmartre Club in Copenhagen, broadcasting on the radio every other Thursday. SteepleChase has released these consistently exciting (and well-recorded) performances on six CDs. Love for Sale features the impressive group jamming on the title cut, "Cherokee," two Gordon originals (including "Big Fat Butterfly" which has the tenor taking a brief vocal) and an emotional rendition of "I Guess I'll Hang My Tears out to Dry." It's recommended, as are all of the releases in this valuable Dexter in Radioland series.
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среда, 27 августа 2008 г.
Dexter Gordon Quartet - Heartaches (1965)
Artist - Dexter Gordon Quartet
Album - Heartaches
Recording Date - 5 August 1965
Type - Compilation, Live
Label - Steeplechase
Genre - Jazz, Style - Hard Bop
Format/Bitrate - MP3/320 kbps
Size - 75 + 37 Mb
Хотелось бы предложить вашему вниманию два альбома Dexter Gordon Quartet, относящихся к тому периоду творчества, когда Dexter Gordon после проблем с наркотиками покинул Штаты и жил в Европе.
Tracks:
1. Heartaches 14:15
2. Devilette 12:26
3. You've Changed 10:20
4. Introduction 0:58
5. So What? 9:44
Personnel:
Dexter Gordon - tenor saxophone
Kenny Drew - piano
Niels Pedersen - bass
Alex Riel - drums
Recorded live at Monmartre Jazzhus, Copenhagen, August 1965.
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This Steeplechase set features Dexter Gordon during his long European sojourn. Recorded live in 1965 in Paris, Gordon is accompanied by the great bassist Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, pianist Kenny Drew, and drummer Alex Riel. There are four cuts here, and they include the title track, a standard set to a burning tempo, a gorgeous balladic read of "You've Changed," a swaggering swinger in Ben Tucker's "Devilette", and a strutting, bluesed-out version of Miles Davis' "So What." The recording quality can be a tiny bit iffy at times, but the performance is stellar and more than makes up for the few rough spots in the session. Recommended.
Thom Jurek, Allmusic.com
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Dexter Gordon Quintet - Ladybird (1965)
Artist - Dexter Gordon Quintet
Album - Ladybird
Release Date - Feb 15, 2005
Recording Date - Aug 19, 1965
Type - Complation, Live
Label - Steeplechase
Genre - Jazz, Style - Bop, Hard Bop
Format/Bitrate - MP3/320 kbps
Size - 75 + 38 Mb
Tracks:
1. Ladybird Dameron 2:03
2. So What Davis 12:37
3. Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me) Bricusse, Newley 1:21
4. Blues by Five Davis 4:12
Personnel:
Dexter Gordon, tenor saxophone
Donald Byrd, trumpet
Kenny Drew, piano
Niels Pedersen, bass
Alex Riel, drums
Nils Winther, Producer, Restoration
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The latest offering from the seemingly bottomless Danmarks Radio Archive, this disc presents another air shot of Gordon’s lengthy mid-1960s Cafe Montmarte stint. Dex’s sizable cachet as an expatriate jazz icon prompted a nightly spooling of the tape machines. The resulting cache, so far doled out one set at a time, documents a particularly fertile time for the saxophonist. Shortly after arriving on European shores he teamed with pianist Kenny Drew and a topflight pair of locals in the persons of Pedersen and Riel, set up shop and enjoyed a more relaxed lifestyle than the scuffling of his earlier Big Apple years. This package is a bit different from the previous ones in that it presents trumpeter Donald Byrd, a fellow NYC emigre, sitting in with the working group.
The top-heavy program revolves around extended readings of two standards: the Tad Dameron-penned title track and a blue-chip modal number from the best-selling jazz album of all-time. After a brief ensemble stroll through theme Gordon essays a hungry, if slightly boilerplate solo that swallows up a healthy string of choruses. Byrd follows, cooler in cast and surfing across Riel’s frothy snare and cymbal-driven fills with a succession of slightly smeared runs. Pithy Drew and Pedersen statements follow. Riel lends steady hi-hat and sharp, textured brushwork to the latter’s deft pizzicato exposition and the two wear their advanced postbop pedigrees proudly. The piece winds up with a short spate of robust exchanges between Riel and the rest. These closing minutes are marred by a recurring and intrusive tape warble that ends up sounding oddly like a third remedial horn.
“So What” receives a comparably elongated reading with Pedersen paying homage to and capaciously expanding on Paul Chambers’ original epochal role. After the familiar bass invocation and riffing theme Gordon breaks away and spools out a sultry solo flanked briefly by just Pedersen and Riel at a brisk, but effervescent tempo. As on the previous cut, Drew delivers deft complementary chords that push the action without prodding it. Byrd’s improvisation unfolds in the leader’s wake, displaying a bit of the gelid clarity that was the composer’s calling card. Pedersen brings up the rear with another compact colloquium on killer contrabass technique. The horns wisely abstain from reentry and let it stand as the denouement.
Byrd sits out on a luxurious “Who Can I Turn To?”, but the band returns to full-size for the closer, another Miles Davis’ tune, “Blues By Five.” The trumpeter’s presence and the high degree of rapport shared by the rhythm section make this date one of note. Coupled with a tune choice that strays dexterously in more challenging directions than the band’s usual diet of bop standards it’s a welcome program that finds Gordon in a limber and exploratory mode. Foibles in fidelity aside, Dex aficionados will be sold on the disc’s face value. But casual listeners will probably also be pleasingly surprised by the caliber of this classic conclave.
Bagatellen.com
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