Dexter Gordon, the dynamic tenor saxophonist best known for his starring role in the 1986 film ”Round Midnight,” died Wednesday in Philadelphia at age 67. Mr. Gordon, who helped shape the explosive ...

Dexter Gordon was a remarkable tenor saxophonist. A towering, dashing figure with an embracing smile and a wry sense of humor, Gordon was a powerful player whose bebop approach was equally assertive ...

“What a stroke of luck,” says Vuckovich, who remembers with a laugh how Long Tall Dexter used to say “Let’s get bent” when he wanted a drink. He loved Gordon’s records and had heard him play at San ...

Dexter Gordon and Jackie McLean stand as outsized figures in the history of jazz, high-powered saxophonists steeped in the language of bebop and, in McLean’s case, its offshoots. No one is going to ...

In company with Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane Dexter Gordon was recognized as one of the tenor sax giants of his era. (I'd say Stan Getz made as many classic records as the others, but he was "just" ...

"Jazz, to me, is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes of the people." Dexter Gordon once said that. We heard it when we attended a ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. For a portrait of the artist as a child who never grew up, look at Dexter Gordon's smile: the gummy grin of a six-year-old, even when ...

June 27, 2013 • Montreal is a city of two cultures: French and English, usually commingling, sometimes colliding. The Montreal International Jazz Festival — Canada's grandest music event of the year — ...