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Gordon, Maxine, author.
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Gordon, Dexter, 1923-1990.
Saxophonists -- United States -- Biography.
African American jazz musicians -- Biography.
Jazz musicians -- United States -- Biography.
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Sophisticated giant : the life and legacy of Dexter Gordon / Maxine Gordon ; foreword by Farah Jasmine Griffin ; afterword by Woody Louis Armstrong Shaw III.
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Gordon, Maxine, author.
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
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Gordon, Dexter, 1923-1990.
Saxophonists -- United States -- Biography.
African American jazz musicians -- Biography.
Jazz musicians -- United States -- Biography.
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9780520280649
0520280644
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xi, 279 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"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.
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