Imagine a Detroit dive bar in 1969, where the feral howl of The Stooges collides with the towering tenor of Dexter Gordon in a haze of sweat, distortion, and cigarette smoke. Raw Blow Power, released ...

Inspired by a true story of survival.

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 ...

To drive out of the city of Ithaca in Upstate New York in October you need music. The hills are just beginning to show the golds, reds and rusts of autumn. The sumptuous melancholy of the season needs ...

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 ...

Recorded live by the Danish National Radio at a jazz clinic for music students at a high school in Denmark in 1967. The 50 minutes of music (five tunes).

Columbia Jazz Masterpieces: CT46844 and CT46845. Some material previously unissued. Original liner notes enclosed. Digitally remastered directly from the original analog tapes. Contents Gingerbread ...

As shoddily put together compilations go, tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon's three-disc Blue Note collection, Best Of 3CD, scrapes rock bottom. From the asinine title, through the inadequate liner ...