Dexter Gordon

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

Genres

Holiday & Seasonal Jazz Music Videos & Concerts Pop / Rock Television

Tags

jazz

saxophone

bebop

hard bop

tenor sax

Decades

1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s

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