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Dexter Gordon

Dexter Gordon

Nascimento : 1923-02-27, Los Angeles, California, USA

Morte : 1990-04-25

História

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dexter Gordon (February 27, 1923 – April 25, 1990) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and an Academy Award-nominated actor (Round Midnight, Warner Bros, 1986). He is regarded as one of the first and most important musicians to adapt the bebop musical language of people like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Bud Powell to the tenor saxophone. His studio and live performance career were both extensive and multifaceted, spanning over 50 years in recorded jazz history. Gordon's height was 6 feet 6 inches (198 cm), and so consequently he was also known as "Long Tall Dexter" and "Sophisticated Giant." He played a Conn 10M 'Ladyface' tenor until it was stolen in a Paris airport in 1961. He then switched over to a Selmer Mark VI. His saxophone was fitted with an Otto Link metal mouthpiece, which can be seen in various photos. Gordon died on April 25, 1990 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Official Dexter Gordon Website is the authoritative online source for research and information on the life and music of Dexter Gordon. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dexter Gordon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Perfil

Dexter Gordon

Dexter Gordon

Filmes

Before Midnight

Before Midnight

Self (archive footage)

Filmmaker Jean Achache shot extensively on the set of ’Round Midnight. This documentary presents that material for the first time, including footage of director Bertrand Tavernier, production designer Alexandre Trauner, and other members of the cast and crew.

Self (archive footage)

Documentary on jazz giants Ben Webster and Dexter Gordon's 1962-76 European exile. Multiple film festival award winner. Director: Janus Køster-Rasmussen

Jazz Icons: Dexter Gordon Live in '63 and '64

Jazz Icons: Dexter Gordon Live in '63 and '64

Dexter Gordon features three concerts filmed in 1963 and 1964 in Holland, Switzerland and Belgium that highlight the bebop legend's classic style and silky tone. Filmed while Dexter was living in Europe, these shows feature legendary side musicians such as Art Taylor (drums) and Kenny Drew (piano) and jazz classics "Blues Walk", "A Night In Tunisia", "Body And Soul" and others. One of the most influential saxophonists in jazz history (both John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins claim him as an influence), Dexter Gordon is captured in sharp form and style on this 70-minute tour de force.

Tempo de Despertar

Tempo de Despertar

Rolando

Bronx, 1969. Malcolm Sayer é um neurologista que conseguiu emprego em um hospital psiquiátrico. Lá ele encontra vários pacientes que aparentemente estão catatônicos, mas Sayer sente que eles estão só “adormecidos” e que se forem medicados da maneira certa poderão ser despertados. Assim pesquisa bem o assunto e chega à conclusão de que a L-DOPA, uma nova droga que já estava sendo usada para pacientes com o Mal de Parkinson, deve ser o medicamento ideal para este casos. No entanto, ao levar o assunto para o diretor, ele autoriza que apenas um paciente seja submetido ao tratamento.

Por Volta da Meia-Noite

Por Volta da Meia-Noite

Dale Turner

Na Paris de 1959, um talentoso e veterano saxofonista deve se apresentar no Blue Note, ao lado de outros músicos americanos. Com problemas de alcoolismo, ele é amparado por um fã parisiense. Além de Dexter Gordon, o filme de Bertrand Tavernier contou com grandes jazzistas: Ron Carter, Wayne Shorter, Freddie Hubbard, Herbie Hancock entre outros.

Narrator (voice)

Stop for Bud is Jørgen Leth's first film and the first in his long collaboration with Ole John. […] they wanted to "blow up cinematic conventions and invent cinematic language from scratch". The jazz pianist Bud Powell moves around Copenhagen -- through King's Garden, along the quay at Kalkbrænderihavnen, across a waste dump. […] Bud is alone, accompanied only by his music. […] Image and sound are two different things -- that's Leth's and John's principle. Dexter Gordon, the narrator, tells stories about Powell's famous left hand. In an obituary for Powell, dated 3 August 1966, Leth wrote: "He quite willingly, or better still, unresistingly, mechanically, let himself be directed. The film attempts to depict his strange duality about his surroundings. His touch on the keys was like he was burning his fingers -- that's what it looked like, and that's how it sounded. But outside his playing, and often right in the middle of it, too, he was simply gone, not there."

Dexter Gordon at Jazzhus Montmartre in '69

Dexter Gordon at Jazzhus Montmartre in '69

Tenor Saxophone

Dexter Gordon, Kenny Drew, Makaya Ntshoko and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen perform at the Jazzhus Montmartre in 1969. Setlist: "Those Were the Days" "Fried Bananas"