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Dexter Gordon HOMECOMING: LIVE AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD Dexter Gordon(tenor sax), Woody Shaw(trumpet), Ronnie Mathews(piano), Stafford James(bass), Louis Hayes(drums) Columbia  1976 / 1990    2CD set 'Homecoming' refers to Gordon's return to th... 
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Horace Silver Quintet SONG FOR MY FATHER Carmell Jones(trumpet), Joe Henderson(tenor sax), Horace Silver(piano), Teddy Smith(bass), Roger Humphries(drums) Blue Note 1964 / 1989   Calcutta Cutie : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p78zIW0jF8 Q... 
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Delivered Indeed ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xTnvRNh7Go&list=RD7xTnvRNh7Go&start_radio=1 Cheers    
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Johnny who? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA5lFRvcKcM Cheers    
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@curiousjim I know, as does everyone else, about the Heroin problem at that time.  I just don't think one of the founders of Blue Note would pay artists in drugs.  That's a felony.  Why risk all he had built, by being in effect, a drug pusher.  Y... 
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Blue Note paying artists in Heroin????   My BS alarm is beginning to vibrate.   Cheers  
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Just because music is improvised, does not make it Jazz. Cheers  
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Dee Dee Bridgewater MEMPHIS Okeh   2017   I can't get next to you : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D12fn1a-Mes Going down slow : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5tiONsEnRE The Sweeter He Is : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuibejJg9mA Pr... 
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Sunday:   Motherless Child : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv5c9jvfIPE Joshua : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlm5gd30trY Amen : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaExZxHNjAs   Cheers  
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I have all the usual Sonny Rollins must haves. I always think of him as being a different breed of sax player. Aloof / Loner. Something.  Too much improvisation? My latest is his CD with the MJQ. Have not opened it yet.   Cheers  
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@pjw81563 Still here, enjoying the posts.  Listening to a little Dexter Gordon at the moment.  I was out of the net for a while due to getting a new knee in May. :) Cheers  
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@jdougs  But I have yet to be disappointed by anything I have purchased on Steeplechase Records.   Same here.  Maybe  I should have said : does not rise to the level of most of his recordings for SteepleChase. Cheers  
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Dexter Gordon and Orchestra MORE THAN YOU KNOW SteepleChase 1975 / 1989 This is a result of staying in Europe a little too long.   More than you know : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRE3WBZmnHw Naima : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB6fa... 
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Horace Silver Quintet FINGER POPPIN' Blue Note   1959 / 1988 Blue Mitchell(trumpet), Junior Cook(tenor sax), Horace Silver(piano), Eugene Taylor(bass), Louis Hayes(drums)   Juicy Lucy : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-KjJDooJmQ Cookin' at ... 
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Sunday Nearer my God to Thee : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1mQT1u_45I Amazing Grace : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3QbHNOxzcY Nothing like massed brass. Cheers