Dexter Gordon - A Swingin Affair '1962/2015

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Artist	Dexter Gordon Related artists
Album name	A Swingin Affair
Country
Date	1962/2015
Genre	Jazz
Play time	00:38:17
Format / Bitrate	24 BIT Stereo 5375 Kbps / 192 kHz
Media	WEB
Size	95.8 MB / 251.5 MB / 1,54 GB
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Tracks list

Tracklist:

[6:25] 01. Dexter Gordon - Soy Califa
[6:04] 02. Dexter Gordon - Dont Explain
[6:31] 03. Dexter Gordon - You Stepped Out Of A Dream
[6:46] 04. Dexter Gordon - The Backbone
[6:47] 05. Dexter Gordon - Until The Real Thing Comes Along
[5:43] 06. Dexter Gordon - McSplivens

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ABOUT THE ALBUM
1 disc(s) - 6 track(s)
Total length: 00:38:15
Main artist: Dexter Gordon
Composer: Various Composers
Label: CM BLUE NOTE (A92)
Genre: Jazz
Hi-Res 24-Bit 192.0 kHz - Stereo
Â© 1962 Blue Note Records â„— 2015 Blue Note Records


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. The Rudy Van Gelder Edition features fine sound but no bonus material. ~
Thom Jurek