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Dexter Gordon
Description:
This 7-CD paper-jacket box set is a compilation of Dexter Gordon’s Columbia releases. After his swing period, he moved through bebop and then to Europe, returning to Japan and signing with Columbia for his first live release, “Homecoming: Live At The Village Vanguard” (1976: 2CD), “Sophisticated Giant” (1977) with Woody Shaw, Bobby Hutcherson, Slide Hampton and others, “Sophisticated Giant” (1977) with George Caples, Rufus Reed and others, and “The Giant” (1977) with George Caples, Rufus Reed and others. Sophisticated Giant” (1977) with Woody Shaw, Bobby Hutcherson, Slide Hampton and others, “Manhattan Symphonie” (1978) with George Caples, Rufus Reid, Eddie Gladden and others, and a live album “Live” (1976: 2CD) with Johnny Griffin as a guest in the quartet formation from the previous album. Live At Carnegie Hall” (1978), a live recording with Johnny Griffin as a guest, and “Gotham City” (1980), a powerful quartet with Cedar Walton, Percy Heath and Art Blakey, plus George Benson and Woody Shaw. This 7-CD set also includes a CD of bonus tracks newly compiled for this box.
Tracklisting:
1.Gingerbread Boy
2.Little Red’s Fantasy
3.Fenja
4.In Case You Haven’t Heard
5.Fried Bananas
6.How Insensitive
7.Diggin’ In
8.It’s Only A Paper Moon
9.Introduction
10.Cheesecake
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