Sold Date: December 6, 2020
Start Date: December 1, 2020
Final Price: $110.00 (USD)
Seller Feedback: 449
Buyer Feedback: 9

                                                                                             DEXTER GORDON "GETTIN' AROUND"
MARCH 2010 MUSIC MATTERS, 2LP, 45RPM, 180G VIRGIN VINYL, SOLD-OUT LIMITED EDITION OF 2,500 COPIES, RECORDED BY RUDY VAN GELDER, CATALOG                              NUMBER MMBST-84204, MASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL BLUE NOTE ANALOG TAPE AND PRESSED AT RTI, CAMARILLO, CA.
"OF THE MANY BEBOP GREATS WHO EMERGED IN THE MID-1940'S, DEXTER GORDON WAS ONE OF THE VERY FEW (ALONG WITH ART BLAKEY AND KENNY DORHAM) TO BE A BLUE NOTE ARTIST TWO DECADES LATER. HIS LARGE SOUND, ABILITY TO PLAY LONG SOLOS WITH CREATIVITY, AND INFECTIOUSLY SWINGING STYLE MADE LONG TALL DEXTER AND IRRESISTIBLE FORCE FOR MANY YEARS. HE FIT INTO THE HARD BOP WORLD AS EFFORTLESSLY AS HE DID IN BOP AND SWING SETTINGS, INFUSING THE MUSIC WITH HUMOROUS SONG QUOTES, ROUSING IDEAS, AND HIS WONDERFUL TONE. NO ONE COULD OUT SWING GORDON."
"HE HAD NO DIFFICULTY KEEPING UP WITH YOUNGER PLAYERS AS BOBBY HUTCHERSON, BARRY HARRIS AND BILLY HIGGINS ON 1965'S "GETTIN' AROUND". DEXTER'S PASSIONATE SOUND THE BALLADS "EVERYBODY'S SOMEBODY'S FOOL" AND "WHO CAN I TO" AND HIS DRIVE ON "SHINY STOCKINGS" (ONE OF THE VERY FEW TIMES THAT THIS COUNT BASIE ASSOCIATED SONG WAS RECORDED BY A SMALL GROUP) MAKES "GETTIN' AROUND" MEMORABLE FROM START TO FINISH, DEMONSTRATING THAT DEXTER GORDON AND THE BLUE NOTE LABEL WERE A MAGICAL COMBINATION."
                                                                                                       1) MANHA DE CARNIVAL                                                                                                        2) WHO CAN I TURN TO                                                                                                        3) HEARTACHES                                                                                                        4) SHINY STOCKINGS                                                                                                        5) EVERYBODY'S SOMEBODY'S FOOL                                                                                                        6) LE COIFFEUR