Dexter Gordon Quintet

by Dexter Gordon

Dexter Gordon Quintet cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1950
  • Label: Dial
  • Country: United States
  • Community rating: 3.33/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Highlighting a massive, robust tenor saxophone tone, this early session features the soloist bridging the swinging momentum of Lester Young with the complex harmonic demands of modern jazz. The relentless, confident improvisations stand as crucial texts in the development of the hard bop vocabulary.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental

Tracklist

  1. Blues Bikini
  2. Lullaby In Rhythm
  3. Chromatic Aberration
  4. Mischievous Lady
  5. Ghost Of A Chance
  6. Sweet And Lovely
  7. Horning In

Credits

  • Dexter Gordon - primary artist
  • Red Callender - bass
  • Chuck Thompson - drums
  • Roy Porter - drums
  • Charles Fox - piano
  • Jimmy Rowles - piano
  • Teddy Edwards - tenor saxophone
  • Melba Liston - trombone

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