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Dexter Gordon

Dexter Gordon

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

Смерть : 1990-04-25

История

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.

Профиль

Dexter Gordon

Dexter Gordon

Фильмы

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.

Пробуждение

Rolando

Доктор Малколм Сэйер, застенчивый врач и ученый, использует экспериментальные препараты, чтобы «пробуждать» обездвиженные жертвы редкого заболевания. Леонард был первым пациентом, получившим это неопробованное лечение. Его пробуждение, наполненное благоговением, страхом и энтузиазмом, приводят как бы ко второму рождению и самого Сэйера по мере того, как пациент открывает для себя и доктора простые радости жизни. Воодушевленный чудесным выздоровлением Леонарда, Сэйер дает лекарство другим больным.

Полночный джаз

Dale Turner

Ночной джаз-клуб, Париж, 1959 год. Пожилой джентльмен нетвердой походкой приближается к сцене, дрожащими руками касается саксофона, он пьян. Но вот он начинает играть, публика замирает, даже бармен за стойкой пританцовывает в ритме джаза; волшебные звуки становятся слышны на парижской ночной улице. Там, на улице под дождем — молодой человек, который не может пройти мимо клуба, он также очарован, он влюблен в игру старого саксофониста. На короткое время судьба свяжет этих двух людей, хотя мэтру джаза жизни осталось совсем немного.

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"