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Author Gordon, Maxine, author.

Title Sophisticated giant : the life and legacy of Dexter Gordon / Maxine Gordon ; foreword by Farah Jasmine Griffin ; afterword by Woody Louis Armstrong Shaw III.

Publication Info. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
©2018

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  B GORDON, DEXTER    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  B GORDON DEXTER    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  788.73 GORDON    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Biographies  B GORDON    Check Shelf
Description xi, 279 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-261) and index.
Summary "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 three-dimensional 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, the gaps created by our misperceptions, but also the gaps left by Dexter himself"--Provided by publisher.
Subject Gordon, Dexter, 1923-1990.
Gordon, Dexter, 1923-1990. (OCoLC)fst00096147
Gordon, Dexter 1923-1990. (DE-588)118972030
Saxophonists -- United States -- Biography.
Jazz musicians -- United States -- Biography.
Jazz musicians. (OCoLC)fst00982205
Saxophonists. (OCoLC)fst01106255
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Composers & Musicians.
Genre/Form Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
Biographies.
Added Author Griffin, Farah Jasmine, writer of foreword.
Shaw, Woody Louis Armstrong, III, writer of afterword.
Other Form: Online version: Gordon, Maxine. Sophisticated giant. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018] 9780520971622 (DLC) 2018014103
ISBN 9780520280649 (cloth ;) (alk. paper)
0520280644 (cloth ;) (alk. paper)
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