Dexter Gordon
- MatchDexter Gordon
- 100%Cole Porter
- 100%Duke Ellington
- 100%Hank Mobley
- 100%Horace Silver
- 100%Sonny Rollins
- 97%Lee Morgan
- 84%Joe Henderson
- 75%Cannonball Adderley
- 74%Freddie Hubbard
- 73%Wayne Shorter
Biography
27 February 1923, Los Angeles, California, USA, d. 25 April 1990, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Gordon began his musical career studying clarinet; by his mid-teens he had switched to tenor saxophone, on which instrument he played with Lionel Hampton in 1940. He stayed with Hampton for a little over two years, recording with the band and gaining in stature so that no less an artist than Coleman Hawkins could nominate him, in 1941, as one of his favourite tenor players. Gordon then worked with... Read more