Dexter Gordon - The Art Of The Ballad '1969

Artist	Dexter Gordon Related artists
Album name	The Art Of The Ballad
Country
Date	1969
Genre	Jazz
Play time	69:10
Format / Bitrate	Stereo 1420 Kbps / 44.1 kHz MP3 320 Kbps
Media	CD
Size	114 MB(+3\%)
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Tracks list

Tracklist

1. Sentimental Reasons 6:49
2. Days Of Wine And Roses 8:45
3. Star Eyes 6:47
4. Body And Soul 10:57
5. Those Were The Days 8:02
6. The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face 5:51
7. Some Other Spring 3:37
8. Sophisticated Lady 4:05
9. Meditation 8:27

Part of Fantasys The Art of the Ballad repackaging series, the Dexter Gordon
volume has a limited window of opportunity, a period when the massive man was
living in Europe and had only a fleeting presence in America at most.
Nevertheless, he was still in fine, majestic form in those years, from which
this CD takes nine samplings. Though the material mostly consists of standard
ballads with acoustic hard bop combos, Gordon was not completely oblivious to
the times, and those moments frankly are the high points of the disc. He takes
on two folk tunes turned Top 40 hits, Those Were the Days and The First Time
Ever I Saw Your Face, turning in deeply felt, soulful performances with both,
and Some Other Spring, live from Montreux, has lovely electric piano and
electric bass backing. Nearly half of these tracks, including the latter two
mentioned above, have not been previously reissued on CD, so Gordon fans who
have junked their turntables may want to have this around until the entire
catalog reappears.