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DEXTER GORDON

GO! + A SWINGIN’ AFFAIR
Label MASTERWORKS SINGLES
Catalog 21342
Format CD
Discs 1
Category JAZZ/BLUES/COUNTRY
Street Date 2014-11-07
Description
2 LPs ON 1 CD DIGI-SLEEVE 24-BIT DIGITALLY REMASTERED ORIGINAL RECORDINGS.
Two complete consecutive 1962 masterpieces by the great Dexter Gordon: Go! (Blue Note BST84112) and A Swingin’ Affair (Blue Note BST84133). Both albums were made in the course of the same week and
with the exact same quartet which consisted of Sonny Clark on piano Butch Warren on bass and Billy Higgins on drums. Gordon wouldn’t record another session with this same formation. Clark died in January of 1963 at the age of 31.

DEXTER GORDON tenor sax
SONNY CLARK piano
BUTCH WARREN bass
BILLY HIGGINS drums
Englewood Cliffs New Jersey August 27 (tracks 1-6) & August 29 (tracks 7-12) 1962.
1-6: Go!
7-12: A Swingin’ Affair
Original recordings made by RUDY Van GELDER and produced by ALFRED LION.
tracklisting
01 CHEESE CAKE (Dexter Gordon) 6:33
02 I GUESS I’LL HANG MY TEARS OUT TO DRY (Sammy Cahn-Jule Styne) 5:22
03 SECOND BALCONY JUMP (Billy Eckstine-Gerald Valentine) 7:05
04 LOVE FOR SALE (Cole Porter) 7:37
05 WHERE ARE YOU? (Harold Adamson-Jimmy McHugh) 5:21
06 THREE O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING (Juli?n Robledo-Dorothy Terriss) 5:41
07 SOY CALIFA (Dexter Gordon) 6:29
08 DON’T EXPLAIN (Billie Holiday-Arthur Herzog Jr.) 6:07
09 YOU STEPPED OUT OF A DREAM (Nacio Herb Brown-Gus Kahn) 6:34
10 THE BACKBONE (Butch Warren) 6:49
11 UNTIL THE REAL THING COMES ALONG (Sammy Cahn- Saul Chaplin-L.E. Freeman -Mann Holiner- Alberta Nichols) 6:50
12 McSPLIVENS (Dexter Gordon) 5:43
 

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