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Sophisticated Giant - The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon (Hardcover)
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Sophisticated Giant - The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon (Hardcover)
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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.
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