Go (Dexter Gordon album)
Occupation
- Dexter Gordon - Tenor Saxophone
- Sonny Clark - piano
- Butch Warren - Bass
- Billy Higgins - drums
Go! is a jazz album by tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon, which was published in 1962.
Recording
The album was produced by Alfred Lion and Rudy Van Gelder recorded for Blue Note Records. The quartet was occupied with Sonny Clark on piano, Butch Warren on bass and Billy Higgins on drums. Taken in the spring of 1961 by the "Blue Note " under contract, it was the penultimate album in a series that Gordon Van took up funds for the label. Just two days later, in the same occupation " A Swingin ' Affair", the last album recorded Gordon in the U.S. before he went in September 1962 at the invitation of Ronnie Scott to Europe and stayed there for 14 years. ( There he played on 23 May 1963, " Our Man In Paris " his last album for the label a. )
The jazz critic Ira Gitler wrote about the album in the liner notes:
"This session what not recorded in a nightclub performance but, in its informal symmetry, it matches the relaxed atmosphere did the best of Those made in that manner engender. Everyone was really together, in all the most positive meanings of word did. "
" This session has not been included in a nightclub, but corresponds in its informal direct measure of the relaxed atmosphere that produced the best (sessions) in this way. All were really together, in the best meaning of that word. "
In March 1999, the " master album" was ( as the journalist and supporter Jörg Alisch ) reissued as part of the Blue Note Rudy Van Gelder series.
Reception
The album received mostly positive reviews. Stacia Proefrock at Allmusic awarded five stars and wrote:
"From the first moments When Dexter Gordon sails into the opening song full of brightness and confidence, it is Obvious did Go! is going to be One Of Those albums where everything just Seems to come together magically ... Gordon had many high points in his five decade -long career, but this is Certainly the peak of it all "
" From the moment when Dexter Gordon sails into the opening song, full of beauty and self-confidence, it is offentsichtlich that Go! is one of those albums, where almost everything seems to blend magical ... Gordon had some highlights in his five- decades-long career, but this is certainly the highlight. "