Dexter Gordon - The Sophisticated Giant [Feb 27, 1923 - April 25, 1990] By Jonathan Martin

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Jonathan Martin is a Jazz Trumpet Player, Composer, and stay home Dad. He is the author of Ear Training for Music: Hearing Inside Out, the only online Ear Training that is Mobile and Comprehensive. And ii V7 Jazz Studies
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If your not hip to the magic that is known as Dexter Gordon, here is your chance to get acquainted!

Saxophonist Dexter Gordon

One of my favorite all time tenor players, Dexter Gordon was the top of cool. His stage manner, and the way he managed the band from behind the horn always blows me away.

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EoJ Tip ~ Bethlehem Records Is Back! Reissues of Classic Nina Simone, Mingus, Dexter Gordon, Mel Torme, Carmen McRae and Art Blakey!

PRESS RELEASE

Classic Albums will be Restored & Remastered
for CD, Digital and 10” & 12” Vinyl Release
First Reissue Sets Debuts August, 27, 2013

Verse Music Group & Naxos of America are happy to announce the reissue of iconic 1950’s Jazz catalog, Bethlehem Records.

Bethlehem Records’ lengthy discography contains over 250 albums that freshly and ambitiously captured an era of music, including West Coast Cool Jazz and East Coast Bop. Bethlehem Records roster of artists includes Nina Simone, Carmen McRae, Chris Connor, Mel Torme, Dexter Gordon, Charles Mingus, Art Blakey, and Duke Ellington. For some of these legendary artists, the Bethlehem recordings represent their classic debuts, and still for others, their greatest recorded work to date.

Each track has been restored from the original analog sound recording & digitally remastered to meet the highest level of clarity and quality standards. For the first time in decades, each of the titles will be available in their original configuration in LP vinyl, CD and digital formats.

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