Go! (Album)

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Go!
Studio album by Dexter Gordon

Publication
(s)

1962

Label (s) Blue note

Format (s)

LP, compact disk

Genre (s)

jazz

Title (number)

6 (CD)

running time

37:44 (CD)

occupation

production

Alfred Lion

chronology
Dexter Calling
(1961) 		Go! A Swingin 'Affair
(1963)

Go! is a jazz album by tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon , released in 1962.

admission

The album was produced by Alfred Lion and recorded by Rudy Van Gelder for Blue Note Records . The quartet was made up of Sonny Clark on piano, Butch Warren on bass and Billy Higgins on drums. Signed to Blue Note in spring 1961, it was the penultimate album in a series that Gordon recorded with Van Gelder for the label. Only two days later followed in the same line-up "A Swingin 'Affair", the last album that Gordon recorded in the USA before he went to Europe in September 1962 at the invitation of Ronnie Scott and stayed there for 14 years. (There he recorded his last album for the label on May 23, 1963, “Our Man In Paris”.)

Jazz critic Ira Gitler wrote about the album in the liner notes :

“This session was not recorded in a nightclub performance but, in its informal symmetry, it matches the relaxed atmosphere that the best of those made in that manner engender. Everyone was really together, in all the most positive meanings of that word. "

“This session was not recorded in a nightclub, but in its informal balance it corresponds to the relaxed atmosphere that the best (sessions) created in this way. Everyone was really together, in the best sense of the word. "

In March 1999, the “master album” (according to journalist and fan Jörg Alisch) was reissued as part of the Blue Note Rudy Van Gelder series.

reception

Dexter Gordon Live in Amsterdam 1980

The album received mostly positive reviews. Stacia Proefrock awarded five stars on Allmusic and wrote:

“From the first moments when Dexter Gordon sails into the opening song full of brightness and confidence, it is obvious that Go! is going to be one of those albums where everything just seems to come together magically ... Gordon had many high points in his five decade-long career, but this is certainly the peak of it all. "

"From the moment Dexter Gordon sails into the opening song, full of beauty and confidence, it's obvious that Go! one of those albums is where almost everything seems to magically harmonize ... Gordon has had some high points in his five decades long career, but this is certainly the absolute high point. "

Track list

  1. Cheese Cake ( Dexter Gordon ) - 6:33
  2. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry ( Jule Styne , Sammy Cahn ) - 5:23
  3. Second Balcony Jump ( Billy Eckstine , Gerald Valentine) - 7:07
  4. Love for Sale ( Cole Porter ) - 7:40
  5. Where Are You ( Harold Arlen , Jimmy McHugh ) - 5:21
  6. Three O'Clock in the Morning (Dorothy Terris, Julián Robledo) - 5:40

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ allmusic Go! > Overview . www.allmusic.com. Retrieved June 11, 2009.
  2. ↑ Dexter Gordon: Berserk until the walls shake
  3. ↑ Dexter Gordon - Go! Retrieved April 6, 2013 .

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