Dexter Gordon - A Swingin Affair '1962

Artist	Dexter Gordon Related artists
Album name	A Swingin Affair
Country
Date	1962
Genre	Jazz
Play time	38:29
Format / Bitrate	Stereo 1420 Kbps / 44.1 kHz MP3 320 Kbps
Media	CD
Size	282 MB(+3\%)
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Tracks list

Tracklist

1	Soy Califa	6:25
2	Dont Explain	6:04
3	You Stepped Out Of A Dream	6:30
4	The Backbone	6:46
5	Until The Real Thing Comes Along	6:47
6	McSplivens	5:43

personnel : 

Dexter Gordon - tenor sax
Sonny Clark - piano
Butch Warren - bass
Billy Higgins - drums

Dexter Gordon was on a roll in 1962 when he recorded A Swingin Affair. Two days
earlier he and this same quartet recorded his classic album Go!; the band
included pianist Sonny Clark, bassist Butch Warren, and drummer Billy Higgins.
Gordon wrote two of the sets six tunes, the first of which, the
Afro-Cuban-flavored Soy Califa, is a burner. Higgins drumming double-times the
band as Gordon lays out the melody -- even his solo doesnt stray far from it and
he returns to it repetitively. Clark vamps with beautiful minor-key chords that
he then adds to his own solo, moving all around the lyric with his right hand.
And Higgins and Warren are truly wonderful on this one. There are also three
standards here. Gordon was always a master of them because his own approach to
improvisation was essentially one of melodic invention. Dont Explain is ushered
in by Clark stating the changes; Gordons low and slow playing is romantic and
sensual. On You Stepped Out of a Dream, Gordon and Clark take the melody and
invert it in the bridge; they turn it into a kind of groove as Higgins plays
Latin-tinged rhythms throughout. Warrens The Backbone is a hard bop groover with
a bossa nova flavor, as he and Gordon twin on the tunes head before Dex moves
off into his solo. Its easily the best thing here. This is a hot hard bop band,
playing a program thats relaxed and mostly upbeat; they even manage to stretch a
bit.~Thom Jurek

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