EPISODE · Jun 24, 2014
Broadcast on 23-Jun-2014
from CiTR -- The Jazz Show · host CiTR 101.9 Vancouver
Dexter Gordon was a pioneer of Modern Jazz and influenced a whole school of saxophone players including John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins. This live set recorded in Copenhagen at that city's most famous Jazz club The Montmartre during Gordon's happy and productive European sojourn. Dexter is accompanied by the finest rhythm section in Europe with two American ex-pats: pianist Kenny Drew and drummer Albert Heath plus the young Danish genius of the bass Nils Henning Orsted-Pederson (NHOP. Dexter delivers the goods on this date done in 1967.
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Dexter Gordon was a pioneer of Modern Jazz and influenced a whole school of saxophone players including John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins. This live set recorded in Copenhagen at that city's most famous Jazz club The Montmartre during Gordon's happy and productive European sojourn. Dexter is accompanied by the finest rhythm section in Europe with two American ex-pats: pianist Kenny Drew and drummer Albert Heath plus the young Danish genius of the bass Nils Henning Orsted-Pederson (NHOP. Dexter delivers the goods on this date done in 1967.
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