Release Date: 16 August 2010
Label: Spotlite Jazz
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 736598113029
Genres: Jazz
Description
Reissue of Spotlite's long deleted, collection of classic Dexter Gordon tracks, recorded for the Dial label in 1947. It features fellow tenor saxophonists Wardell Grey and Teddy Edwards amongst others, plus some rarely heard alternative takes. It offers a fascinating insight into what was happening along the West Coast of America during the boom years of bebop.
"(4 stars - 'an outstanding record') It's the Talk of the Town is the occasion for one of his most expressive ballad solos of those years." - Penguin Guide to Jazz
Personnel: Dexter Gordon, Wardell Gray, Teddy Edwards (tenor saxophone), Melba Liston (trombone), Charles Fox, Jimmy Bunn, Jimmy Rowles (piano), Red Callender (bass), Chuck Thompson, Roy Porter (drums)
Tracklisting
Don Rendell
Laura Collins
Don Rendell Five
Mark Latimer
Al Haig Trio
Big Bill Broonzy
Don Rendell
Billy Eckstine & His Orchestra
Dexter Gordon
Dexter Gordon
Dexter Gordon
Dexter Gordon
Dexter Gordon
Dexter Gordon
Dexter Gordon
Dexter Gordon
