Dexter Gordon (tenor sax), Bobby Timmons (piano), Victor Gaskin (bass), Percy Brice (drums).

‘Classic Vinyl’ series.

Kicks off with the rollicking samba Soy Califa; then a ravishing, bittersweet ballad.
Key Dexter.
Recorded the same week as Go!, with the same crew, including Sonny Clark on top form throughout.
Don’t miss Don’t Explain.
In the Blue Note 80 Vinyl series.

Tremendous Dexter. Carl Perkins in the place. Our favourite version of Cry Me A River.

A performance for Danish TV, never released on vinyl until now, with Kenny Drew, Niels-Henning Ørsted Petersen and Albert Heath. The title track is storming Afro-Cuban jazz (from the unmissable Blue Note LP A Swingin’ Affair).

‘Dexter’s playing was often pure genius regardless of the circumstances, but when he had that magic combination of players behind him, everything was possible. This Tokyo appearance is the last known recording of the Drew-Ørsted Pedersen-Heath rhythm section’ (Michael Cuscuna).

‘An extraordinary gift. Maxine Gordon’s rigorously researched, jazz-inflected, genre-bending account of the many dimensions of this prodigious life provides an occasion to appreciate Dexter’s resounding musical genius as well as his wish for major social transformation’ (Angela Davis).