Binding: Hardcover
Description: Sophisticated Giant presents the life and legacy of tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon (1923 1990) one of the major innovators of modern jazz. In a context of biography history and memoir Maxine Gordon has completed the book that her late husband began weaving his solo turns with her voice and a chorus of voices from past and present. Reading like a jazz composition the blend of research anecdote and a selection of Dexter's personal letters reflects his colorful life and legendary times. It is clear why the celebrated trumpet genius Dizzy Gillespie said to Dexter Man you ought to leave your karma to science. Dexter Gordon the icon is the Dexter beloved and celebrated on albums on film and in jazz lore - - even in a street named for him in Copenhagen. But this image of the cool jazzman fails to come to terms with the multidimensional man full of humor and wisdom a figure who struggled to reconcile being both a creative outsider who broke the rules and a comforting insider who was a son father husband and world citizen. This essential book is an attempt to fill in the gaps created by our misperceptions as well as the gaps left by Dexter himself.
Title: Sophisticated Giant The Life And Legacy Of Dexter Gordon
Author(s): Gordon Maxine
Publisher: University Of California Press
Barcode: 9780520280649
Pages: 284 Pages, 23 B-W Illustrations
Publication Date: 11/6/2018
Category: Biography: Arts & Entertainment