Dexter Gordon - Gingerbread Boy (Live 1973)

[monsterjazzlicks]

Outstanding performance from all. Cranshaw is by far one of the greatest bass players for melodic lines and his time-feel. Everything he plays is perfect in every way.

[Easleytee]

Love Dex...but this clip is painful to ingest.

[niltonyukina]

Viva Kenny Clarke!

[jazzuffe]

But Kenny Clarke! He plays beyound all.. The greatest!

[jazzuffe]

Bob is always great but NHØP should have been there too.

[jazzbuff630]

Long tall Dex.  Influenced Coltrane.

[jtbsax]

@jazzbuff630 And by this point in Dex's career, he had been influenced by Coltrane in return.

[saxosueco]

Great!

[ghairraigh]

I am always amazed how a tenor looks like an alto or a toy sax in Long Tall Dexter's hands.

[MentalColt]

wow! walkin` bass.. guitar)



[noah35becker]

the sophisticated giant strikes again!

[gspotatgmaildotcom]

finally swing hits me. Kenny knows how to do it.

[jazzbazaarsaxman]

I saw Dexter in his late years playing at the Ronnie Scott Jazz Club in London. He was on crutches, but man could he swing.

[vpmitchell]

Klook!

[SaxmanKan]

Boy do we miss Dexter!!!!!!!!!!!!

[BriansThing]

Amazin

[LeanMcHungry]

OMG I love this recording,what a find,thanks for the great post!

[Jordainio]

Oh man...mighta been a dark gig...

just vibes im gettin.

[vscsrg]

grande 

[BossTenor]

Dexter made it look so effortless. He was truly amazing !

[Jazzsaxman1]

Im really diggin that bass players feel 

[BentGordonsen]

Finally Dexter found an outfit nearly half as hip as his playing

[rtifishul]

I don't understand why Cranshaw is playing electric bass, and why Hampton is playing electric piano...oh wait, it's 1973.

[ImaniHekima]

@rtifishul It's cool....the playing is wonderful....that's the first time I've seen Hampton play....having heard him many times on acoustic piano, that's some of the best Rhodes work I've heard.

[michelemaggi1]

@rtifishul bicause is different stile man.....it's normal.dex on 70's change is stile.......understand????

[michelemaggi1]

@rtifishul bicause is different stile man.....it's normal.dex on 70's change is stile.......understand????

[zappacrappa2]

@rtifishul If this had been filmed a decade later maybe we would have seen Klook playing a set of Simmons e-drums:)

[pjustusxi]

@rtifishul Cranshaw still plays electric bass.

[rtifishul]

@pjustusxi Well, I bet that's nice for him. I will never associate him with electric bass, however.

[calico992]

@rtifishul Miles had been watching all these rock stars fill stadiums and become millionaires, He wondered why jazz cats weren't filling bigger venues, so miles started incorporating some rock ideas with 'In a Silent Way' and Bitches Brew, Everyone else followed. IMHO Jazz's complexity makes it -inaccessible- to unintelligent people, where as rock and pop both lend themselves more freely to simple brains.

Have you ever met an un-evolved person who loved jazz? I have yet to.

[ALTERED13TH]

@calico992 Absolutely correct - simple people love simple music. Music is analogous to language and brain research has shown that musical tastes are set by the time a person goes through puberty. It's like language in that if your command of language is poor, you will most likely be a simpleton because one's world is described and interpreted in words.

[boertush]

@ALTERED13TH That's simply not true. I don't know any simple people who love complex music, but most smart people I know listen to simple music.

As for myself, I listened to simple punk songs through out puberty, but I got bored with it when I turned 20 and switched to jazz.

[vpmitchell]

@calico992 hard reality for some, but i hear the truth man...so much for the uneducated ear :)

[vibrationinstitute]

@rtifishul Crenshaw switched to electric bass back then and never looked back FYI, played it ever since

[vibrationinstitute]

@rtifishul Crenshaw switched to electric bass back then and never looked back FYI, played it ever since

[rtifishul]

@vibrationinstitute That's disheartening to hear, he was absolutely superb on the acoustic.

[Streamline09]

@vibrationinstitute True that he has stuck by it; however, I have seen him play upright every once in a while with Sonny.

[unclejunglebass]

hahaha wow this is so different from the miles quintet version. wow. straight up blues. still cool of course cuz dexter is a hoss.

[jazzuffe]

What a shape Dexter is in.

[andrebijazz1]

Dexter : Um grande músico que temos saudades ,fonte de inspiraçaõ e estudo ,obrigado por ter nos ensinado os caminhos ( será sempre lembrado)

[OscarPetersonFan]

There's something wrong in this clip. I think it's not complete, Just look at Dexter at about 5:20, he's standing behind Bob and Kenny, but in 5:27 he appears suddenly in the fron of the stage, and you also can hear a difference in the audio track. Sorry but this is edited, maybe because Bob's solo was too long! Anyway, here you can appreciate the great musicians of this wonderful quartet!

[sshmed]

@OscarPetersonFan well i dont know about the video, but i do have the full track of this very song which comes in at 13 minutes or something so yeh i think part is missing....i got it from a website, let me know if you want the link

cheers

[OscarPetersonFan]

@sshmed Please send me the link!! Thank you so much!!

[OscarPetersonFan]

Nice to hear Dexter again!! And look at Hampton Hawes at the electric piano!!

[Soulnik]

Great Dex clip!

[chalone2]

oh, yeah!! glad to see ya back, Bob!!

[StradMan37]

Some vintage Dexter blowin'! My favorite tenor man, in a great quartet setting - 3 of the best sidemen in jazz's history! Well, Dex always drew the cream of the crop to him.

Thanks for posting!