Dexter Gordon - One Flight Up LP (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) newyearssale and a composer

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hinting at future directions on albums like 2012’s GRAMMY-winning “Black Radio

Ahmad Jamal (piano)

Raat Ki Rani

That Fall the saxophonist was back in Rudy Van Gelder’s Englewood Cliffs studio at the helm of a cutting-edge modern jazz group with Lee Morgan on trumpet

Dexter Gordon - One Flight Up LP (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) newyearssale and a composerBlue Note, 1965 Dexter Gordon had been living in Europe for several years when he recorded One Flight Up, one of his acknowledged masterpiece albums, in Paris in June of 1964. Its all here: Dexters magnificently huge sound, Donald Byrd in peak form on trumpet, the subtle sophistication of pianist Kenny Drew, the utter brilliance of the then teenaged bass phenom Niels Henning Orsted Pederson, and the rock steady swing of drummer Art Taylor. The opening