Dexter Gordon (February 27, 1923 - April 25, 1990) was an American tenor saxophone musician. He is considered one of a foremost bebop tenor players. From either 1940 to 1980, he played with such jazz greats as Lionel Hampton, Tadd Dameron, Charles Mingus, Louis Armstrong and Billy Eckstine. He too played by using a Fletcher Henderson band in L.The. for two or three weeks inside 1947.

Life and works

Gordon is particularly far-famed for his titanic sax duels by using fellow tenorman Wardell Gray, which were a popular survive attraction that too produced many albums between 1947 and 1952.

Numbers of would characterise Gordon's healthy when existence 'big' & spacious (a feature partly owed to his physical stature) & his tendency to play behind the beat is discernable. One of his major influences was Lester Young. Piece never considered when subversive when Charlie Parker or John Coltrane, his influence is still heard within modern jazz saxist. One of his foible was to recite a lyrics of everthing ballads prior to performing the babies.

Gordon notably manufactured 2 appearances inside cinema in the period of his life. A foremost motion picture appearance occurred, oddly plenty, patch within prison for possession of diacetylmorphine. He portrayed an inmate swimming within the prison band in Unchained, though a soundtrack was late overdubbed.

He was composer, musician, & actor in the play 'A Connection' inside 1960. Fallowing that, he spent Fifteen years swimming & residing around Europe, mostly within Paris & Copenhagen. He played regularly by having fellow exile jazzmen like Bud Powell, Freddie Hubbard, Bobby Hutcherson, Kenny Drew, Horace Parlan and Billy Higgins. He likewise visited a States now and againside for recording dates, resultant in many albums existence freed under his title. Typically, a sevener albums he recorded for Blue Note Records in the 1960s (''Doin' Allright, Dexter Calling..., Last, The Swingin' Affair, My Human inside Paris, 1 Flight Higher, & Gettin' About'') come think of his finest sessions.

Gordon eventually returned to the United States permanently within 1976, & appeared in the Village Vanguard, NY for a gig that wwhen dubbed as his 'homecoming'. Dexter noted 'There was so much love& elation; periodically it was a bit eerie at a Vanguard. Fallowing a survive placed it'd turn on the lights & cypher would move'. When this appearance, he would release many supplementary albums that proved he wwhen when expert around case does'nt better than prior to his years in Europe & eventually gained appreciation as one of a awesome jazz tenors.

Around 1986, he starred in the movie ''Round Midnight', in which he played the role of a musician much like himself; some have suggested the role is thinly veiled autobiography, though Lester Young and Bud Powell were the main inspirations for the role of the expatriate jazz musician 'Dale Turner'. He received the nomination for Academy Award for Best Actor for his role. Gordon occurs as member of the Jazz Hall of Fame, and was voted musician of the season by 'Down Beat' magazine in 1978 and 1980.

Trivia

Gordon's height was Vi foot Phoebe within (One.96 m) & consequently he was nicknamed called 'Long Tall Dex'. When he sleep in Denmark, he became friends using a personal of so-new Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich, and afterward became Lars's godfather.

Quotations

'Dexter universally got that large healthy, from either a early times. He's the large human. Stands to cause he's gotta lot of lungs' - Zoot Sims on Dexter's unique sound.

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