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Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon
By Gordon, Maxine
- ISBN
- 9780520280649 9780520971622
- Publisher
- Univ. of California
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Reviewed on November 15, 2018 | Arts & Humanities
More than anyone, it was Dexter Gordon who moved Charlie Parker's bop innovations onto the bigger tenor horn in the early 1940s. Recognition came early to Gordon, but so did temptation, and he spent much of the Fifties in prison for drug use. He moved to Europe from 1962 to 1976. Partly because of the efforts of wife and author Maxine Gordon, an oral historian and archi...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
