This album is a big surprise. Rather, it is not one of those great discs such as Dexter Gordon Our Man In Paris Dexter Gordon On Dial: The Complete Sessions, GO, and Gettin 'Around. " Live At Carnegie Hall, however, the Dexter Gordon in a nutshell. It's a bad section of remaining somewhere in the background and endless improvisations leader. In the two works is welcoming a second saxophone - Johnny Griffin. These two tracks - Blues Up And Down and Cheesecake is an interesting dialogue between the two saxophones. Short solo game too George Cables on piano. The whole, however, belongs to Dexter Gordon, who plays siedmiominutowe improvisations with ease citing both known tunes such as the Mona Lisa, or Body And Soul. This, however, only fragments, the whole improvisation is an intelligent and balanced, while the extraordinary inventiveness of us played the harmonic complexities of topics.
Perhaps the choice of repertoire here is a bit random, but each track is just a pretext for the highest quality saxophone improvisation. So there is no record on this theme connecting played songs. There is some complicated ideology. Probably there was also something strictly planned program of the concert. This album is pure music and nothing more. Is it bad, not really. It's the kind of meld Dexter Gordon - I am, back from a long, lasting more than 10 years of residence in Europe. The first album by the saxophonist recorded after returning to the U.S. was, of course, Homecoming: Live At The Village Vanguard. But back to the stage such a prestigious as Carnegie Hall was definitely the same doping Dexter Gordon to play a really excellent show, which does not know which has been issued for the first time after twenty years.
It's one of those shows where I would find themselves in the audience. Unfortunately it was at Carnegie Hall from 1978 - probably beyond my reach at that time and place. Well, that is the disc. This is certainly a great record of excellent concert. Released after years in a series of Original Jazz Classics, Columbia had become a jazz classic in the eyes of people from marketing the label. This time, it is not abusive to encourage us to purchase. It's a great album, not only for fans of Dexter Gordon, but for all fans good jazz.
Dexter Gordon
Live At Carnegie Hall
Format: CD
Label: Columbia / Sony
number: 886975696628
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