Dexter Gordon in Loose Walk

[eddiemambo]

Plenty o Style & Oceans of Talent

man ..

[aultger]

superbe, merci à vous

[sevildrib]

The rhythm section just about manage to kling-on as Captain Gordon helms another blues performance into hyper space at warp 10. Scotty must have been having kittens in the engine room cos Dexter just keeps his foot on the floor for light years of choruses. If only Dexter hadn't been beamed up...still, we've got the recordings.

[sevildrib]

The rhythm section just about manage to kling-on as Captain Gordon helms another blues performance into hyper space at warp 10. Scotty must have been having kittens in the engine room cos Dexter just keeps his foot on the floor for light years of choruses. If only Dexter hadn't been beamed up...still, we've got the recordings.

[saxoman1]

Dex playin so much sax!

[denzelsnipes69]

"Loose Walk or Walk Loosely."

[atom6401]

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[wesm65]

Amazing stuff - Dexter's on fire!

[InBy9OutBy5]

This is great. Thanks for posting it !

[JNPDITV]

If you enjoyed this videoclip do not miss Dexter Gordon's CD "GO".

[opus0pocus]

my bro says that blues walk was written by lou donaldson, (he thinks this is probably a parody)

[Jazzman303]

theres two different versions blues walk... one is a 12 bar blues popularized by Clifford Brown and Lou Donaldson's version is a Minor 12 bar blues. both are dope. but this take is pretty much clifford browns blues walk except dexter is playing it in F

[AresCassell]

This is great. Any Idea what year it's from??

[manicer]

1964

[AresCassell]

Thanks bro. Is the clip from "jazz casual"?

[bkjbs762]

@AresCassell it's taken from dutch television

[andygray]

Cool music, thanks for posting. It is rare to see such clips of DG looking so young.

[MAXSARDEN]

Maravilhoso o som, mais um dos gênios do jazz!

[holdemjoe]

I hope everyone watching this-perhaps for thge first time-nows that it's now available in CRYSTAL-CLEAR QUALITY on the latest JAZZ ICONS dvd releases. Buy the new box set-w/ Dexter,Bill Evans,Roland Kirk,Rollins-it's AMAZING!

[saxdude20]

I agree. I also encourage anyone who likes this vid of Dexter to buy the Jazz Icon DVD's! (I've seen the Roland Kirk and Sonny Rollins ones. High quality videos AND amazing playing of course!)

[ssminopoopy]

I love Sonny and Trane but there was something unique about Dexter. He was THE MAN.

[naishl]

as far as i know he is still alive. 86 years old i think...

[Francozen]

Dexter is dead since 1990, maybe you confused him with another?

[DangerousParadox]

Dexter died when he was 67.

Sorry.

Try again.

[starfirev]

Clifford Brown and Max Roach recorded "Blues Walk" in '55, but Stitt recorded "Loose Walk" at least 2 years before. Same tune. Dexter new these guys, and he undoubtably would have known the recordings. If he says this is a Stitt tune, well, I'm inclined to think he's a better authority than any of us or some record company, but who knows? Back then, record companies didn't always put the best effort into accuracy of the names of tunes, composers, etc.

[and7barton]

How did he do that at 3:54 ? - It's the Texas Wobble, but an octave higher than usual ! - Anybody know ?

[Francozen]

Just finger 12 456 Eb and use a

[Francozen]

use a huge vibrato (sorry for the double-post)

[dasapphire1]

Wild Session - Endless Creativity Chorus after Chorus. Genius

[drunkenplumber15]

This is Holland 1964. Drummer is Daniel Humair...

[drunkenplumber15]

MsSyms is right. this isn't a Stitt tune...

[saxylarry26]

This must be late 50's. He still looks so young. He looks a little like Obama here!

[Desafinado30]

Those were the days. Not only musicians carried themselves with such class. It was society itself. Men nowadays dont seem to care to carry themselves with seriousness and firmness. We have a bunch of Charlatans who just cant appreciate the good things in life such as this fine music. Hip Hop anyone??

[piwikiwi]

Do i need to remind you that almost every jazz musician at that time was addicted to heroine?

[bluegraham]

SO?

[quranjames]

BULLSHIT.....UNTRUE!!

[jazzcatuna]

That's hyperbole. Mythology. Some were, but "almost every jazz musician" is far from the truth. It's onlookers like you spewing rhetoric based on anecdotal snippits that bring the focus onto tall tales and away from the truth. But you go ahead. Libel a generation that created America's musical tradition. Do I need to remind you that you're almost always an idiot?

[Capuano]

There were plenty of shitty people back then, too. You just hear more about it on the news nowadays. Sweeping generalizations just don't work, sorry.

[kfdisawesome]

@Desafinado30 hip hop is great....

[italiarovinata]

Who is the drummer? Absolutely fantastic, one of the best boppers ever

[willy4u4u]

wow he at his peak here. dex is the best..no one can recite a fucking paragraph of sound like him..we all should be so lucky..

[sebastianlara]

Dexter...along with Rollins and Zoot Sims, my favorites!!!

and a younger one: Rich Perry!!!

[jazzflutist]

Try also Lucky Thompson - another victim of racism, and the music business. Probably the most quintessential sexyphone sound around. Died homeless and hornless, lived in a park for a while, had Alzheimer's. Forgotten, lonely, dead, but YouTube brings him back and enables us to compare him with the others.

[BuckshotLaFunke]

As a teenager I spoke to him once after a concert. I asked him a stupid question: 'What is it like to live in New York?', and he gave me a deadpan answer: 'Nobody lives in New York'.

[freddylebanon]

Blues walk made a few quid too.

[jazzytds]

He was so engaging, as well as handsome and dapper. Musicians truly had a certain premier demeanor which allowed more respect and seriousness to be associated with them within the ultra avant garde jazz gliteratti.

[Jazzman303]

Blues Walk?

[klactv]

Yes, indeed, by Clifford Brown,I think.

[MsSyms]

Blues Walk was by Donald Byrd if i'm not

mistaken???

[klactv]

Fascinating, I remember him from those days, heard him a couple of times in our jazzclub, playing well and acting so cool. He's not at his peak in this video, but that's not important.

[Naima1969]

Thank you very much dude

[saxdude20]

Your Welcome ^^