DEXTER GORDON "A Swingin' Affair" Orig Blue Note DG VAN GELDER Ear 1962 STEREO L

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    DEXTER GORDON "A Swingin' Affair" Orig Blue Note DG VAN GELDER Ear 1962 STEREO LP              

List Title: DEXTER GORDON “A Swingin' Affair” Orig Blue Note DG VAN GELDER Ear 1962 STEREO LP

 

Artist: DEXTER GORDON
Title: "A Swingin' Affair”

 

Label: BLUE NOTE RECORDS

Catalogue No: BST 84133

Library ID: 0111 Matrix:
Year: 1962

Personnel:

Dexter Gordon: tenor saxophone
Sonny Clark: piano
Butch Warren: bass
Billy Higgins: drums

This is an original STEREO pressing , NOT a remaster or reissue.

 

Cover: EX Original thick cardboard. Nice clean, shiny and stiff cover. No seam splits. All four corners good. Some very minor age staining on flipside.

Disc: EX+

Nice, beautiful, shiny black record with only a couple of very minor scuffs.
The occasional click can be heard but, other than that, this record plays beautifully.
Faintest of spindle trails on side 2 label.

Description:
Dexter Gordon was on a roll in 1962 when he recorded A Swingin' Affair. Two days earlier he and this same quartet recorded his classic album Go!; the band included pianist Sonny Clark, bassist Butch Warren, and drummer Billy Higgins. Gordon wrote two of the set's six tunes, the first of which, the Afro-Cuban-flavored "Soy Califa," is a burner. Higgins' drumming double-times the band as Gordon lays out the melody -- even his solo doesn't stray far from it and he returns to it repetitively. Clark vamps with beautiful minor-key chords that he then adds to his own solo, moving all around the lyric with his right hand. And Higgins and Warren are truly wonderful on this one. There are also three standards here. Gordon was always a master of them because his own approach to improvisation was essentially one of melodic invention. "Don't Explain" is ushered in by Clark stating the changes; Gordon's low and slow playing is romantic and sensual. On "You Stepped Out of a Dream," Gordon and Clark take the melody and invert it in the bridge; they turn it into a kind of groove as Higgins plays Latin-tinged rhythms throughout. Warren's "The Backbone" is a hard bop groover with a bossa nova flavor, as he and Gordon twin on the tune's head before Dex moves off into his solo. It's easily the best thing here. This is a hot hard bop band, playing a program that's relaxed and mostly upbeat; they even manage to stretch a bit. T

 

Deep Groove on side 1 & 2

VAN GELDER and Ear symbol in dead wax
Address on record: BLUE NOTE RECORDS INC . NEW YORK USA

Address on Flipside cover:

BLUE NOTE RECORDS INC., 43 West 61st St., New York 23
Mecolico sticker with 25d (two shilling and 1pence) price plus Chappell & Co. Ltd. London sticker.

Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on on August 29, 1962

This album still still has its “25 years Blue Note “ original inner sleeve.

Genre: Jazz
Format: LP – STEREO
Origin: US

 

Track Listing:
Side A

1.Soy Califa -Gordon 6:27
2.Don't Explain -Herzog, Holiday 6:06
3.You Stepped out of a Dream Brown, Kahn 6:34

Side B

4.The Backbone Warren, Warren 6:48
5.Until the Real Thing Comes Along -Cahn, Chaplin, Freeman ... 6:49
6.McSplivens Gordon 5:43

This is from a large jazz collection. Many have been played only a few times and look brand new unless otherwise stated. Kept in a clean, smoke and pet free home.

Please view my other listings as I will have many more cool jazz LP's up for sale in the coming months. The whole collection will eventually be auctioned.  

Thanks.

Guaranteed to be original and authentic.  I do not sell bootlegs or modern reissues.

Your LP will be shipped in the highest quality, brand new, sturdy PREMIUM 625 MICRON record mailers.
as used by nearly every record distributor worldwide with a cardboard stiffener both above and below the record. Records are removed from the jacket to prevent seam from splitting.

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