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  3. Dexter Gordon

    in Artists

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    Jim, I have to agree with your point of view here. There are those who play at being hip, and there are those who just are hip. Dexter was certainly among the latter. But the issue of hipness is irrelevant. For me, Dexter is one of the great individual voices in jazz, one of the first major jazz musicians I was lucky to see in person when I was 19, and a musician who I have loved and admired for over 40 years. Whenever Steeplechase comes out with yet another live recording or broadcast, I'm there, I so love Dexter. If Allen doesn't hear it, and I've had many conversations with Allen about a wide variety of music over the years, and I respect his opinion, so be it. Nothing he says is gonna convince me of anything - Dexter has been my "friend" for a long long time!

    Jim accurately points out a handful of lesser performances in the Dexter discography, but man, these are so few among hundreds of masterpieces that Dexter has given us. I love his musical demeanor - laid back, laconic, playful, but underneath he conveys tremendous passion to me. How can anybody not be moved by a performance like "I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry" (from Go)?

    A problem I have with these kinds of discussions is that sometimes too much is said - I just sit back bemused that people feel a need to debate what many of us consider to be the truth, and while I follow these discussions, I rarely feel the need to join in. I hadda chime in here - Dexter is "my main man"!

  6. Dexter Gordon

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    I would highly recommend all of the SteepleChase titles with the exception of one, "More Than You Know", avoid that one like the plague.

    Why not just say it's with strings and let people judge for themselves? I like this record a lot - it's unique in the Dexter catalog, and the string writing is quite interesting.

  8. BFT31 Disk1 - The answer thread

    in Blindfold Test

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    Track 1: Blindfold test #1 (from Modern sounds of the West, 1954) Marty Paich Sextet feat. Conte Candoli (Lonehill Jazz re-issue from a 1954 Blue Note called Various Artists - Best from the West: Modern Sounds from California, Vol. 1)

    The perfect start into a Blindfold test CD….I'm wondering that no one ever used that before as intro ;) … and a small contribution to Vince G. with Candoli and Budwig for those who missed him ;)

    On here: Conte Candoli (tp) John Graas (flh) Charlie Mariano (as) Marty Paich (p) Monty Budwig (b) Stan Levey (dr) Leonard Feather (prod) Los Angeles, CA, December 31, 1954, originally on BN BLP 5059

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    2. I think only one board member has a copy of the original

    You rang? :cool:

  15. Dizzy Gillespie Verve/Phillips Small Group Sessions

    in Mosaic and other box sets...

    Posted

    I forgot about this one:

    Dizzy Gillespie and the Double Six of Paris (Philips) noteworthy for the presence of Bud Powell, but otherwise not essential **1/2

    Actually, there were 3 Limelight albums:

    Jambo Caribe (a calypso record, fun but on the light side)

    The New Continent (a big band session recorded for Philips in 1962, not released until c. 1966)

    The Melody Lingers On (this was the rather commercial side I referred to in the previous post)

    One of the first times I saw Dizzy, the latter was his newest album. At one point James Moody, in a mock attempt to hawk the album on stage, held it up and read off the song titles, effectively ridiculing the record and jokingly humiliating Dizzy. As light as the record is, the band totally kicked ass live. :cool:

  17. Dizzy Gillespie Verve/Phillips Small Group Sessions

    in Mosaic and other box sets...

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    My understanding is that while Philips may have been a separate entity from Mercury when Dizzy first signed with the label in the early 1960's, the label was connected to Mercury by the time Dizzy's 3rd Philips album "Something Old Something New" was released in 1963. My copy of the original LP identifies Philips as "A Division of Mercury".

    In answer to the question of the quality of the 5 Philips LP's:

    Dizzy On the French Riviera *****

    New Wave ****

    Something Old Something New *****

    Dizzy Goes Hollywood **1/2

    The Cool World ***1/2

    After this his releases were transferred to the newly created Limelight label, (as were many of the artists signed to Mercury/Philips, like Gerry Mulligan, Roland Kirk, Oscar Peterson, et al.) As far as I can tell, there were only 2 Dizzy releases on Limelight:

    Jambo Caribe (a rather commercial effort that can be omitted)

    The New Continent (a big band session recorded for Philips in 1962, not released until c. 1966)

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