Blues up and down - Dexter Gordon Johnny Griffin

[lberry2]

the cats blew

[Docnolan1953]

dex is up first, then Griffin

[Docnolan1953]

Dexter and Johnny used to be sax section mates in the old Eckstine band...You can feel the comradeship.... this is what was called a "Cut Battle" back in the old days. Two great tenors Stating there ground then trading back and forth..... this is friggin priceless.

It dont, and sadly won't, get any better than this

[CharliNakedLadyB]

THE CROWD @ THE END OF THE SONG SAID IT ALL !!!

[leedwatts]

great duo..two legends..

[CharliNakedLadyB]

Dex will always be the man !

[CharliNakedLadyB]

str8 to favs

[darionic1]

Dex Gordon 

[saighdude1]

just curious....is it dex who takes the 1st solo?

[cruzonsax]

@saighdude1 sounds like that's the case.

[jazzuffe]

Eddie Gladden is just fantastic and Griffin is making ass.. But, Dex!!

[bluesborn]

A stentorian and jubilant night of jazz giants.

[ghairraigh]

Saw Dex and Griffin breaking in this a few days earlier at a double bill in the Jazz Showcase in Chicago. Someone filmed it for Euro Public television- anyone know where to get the video? After the intermission Griffin came out and ordered the cameras away, saying "They always say it's for Public Television, and then a few months later it's for sale in the store and we never get any money!" I think Griffin's action also had something to do with Dexter, who was visibly intoxicated the second set.

[joyclean]

@ghairraigh joe segal didn't let you stay for

the second set. you did not want to pay the

additional cover charge.

[ghairraigh]

@joyclean Sure, Joe cleared the house when he presented an expensive group like Basie, or Thad and Mel. He did so when Dexter was in town and the fans were lined up down the block for the second set. However, many quiet nights when there was a small mid-week crowd, fans were permitted to linger through all three sets. Remember Joe would announce at the end of each set, "just keep drinking!" I did so, often, on my student and musician discount of $5 cover charge for the greatest jazz stars.

[joyclean]

@ghairraigh i seem to recall thad jones and mel lewis, but can't picture basie, but i'll take your word for it. i remember duke ellington in soldier field one summer, and the riot at the band shell when sly didn't show. and sunday afternoon matinee at the birdhouse on wells? before joe arrived on the scene at that hotel on sheridan across from lincoln park. i recall seeing don bias over there, after a while joe moved to rush street, opened the showcase. i may have my facts mixed up.

[ghairraigh]

@joyclean Basie appeared at the Jazz showcase roughly twice a year since I began going there in around1973, mostly downstairs in the small room on Rush St., but once in the upstairs Disco at the same address. I also heard Basie in the Grand Ballroom when the Showcase was located in the Blackstone Hotel on south Michigan Ave. As far as the joint on Wells St., could you be thinking of the Plugged Nickel, where Stitt and don Patterson seemed to be in residence before I knew what jazz was?

[ghairraigh]

@joyclean The Showcase you mention as being on Sheridan Rd across from Lincoln Park was probably the North Park Hotel on Clark just south of Armitage, the place where Joe Segal recorded Dexter and Gene Ammons' album "The Chase" for Prestige, 1970, which remains one of my favorite live albums. During the same week in around '73 I heard Duke Ellington play at noon at the First National Bank Plaza and a few days later for a USO dance in the intersection of Adams and LaSalle with Deedee Bridgewater.

[joyclean]

@ghairraigh you're right. i just talked to joe.

jazz showcase is in the old dearborn station

312 360 0234. he is eighty-five now and he

answered the phone. the northpark hotel is

right but it's across from the park. i think we

are talking about, 2300 n. lincoln park west

which is now the belden-stratford. call joe, i

right now. i think he would be happy to hear

about the good old days.

[ghairraigh]

@joyclean Well, I took your advice and called Joe. He sounds the same, and he chided me for not having visited his "new" four-year-old club. I promised to come down soon. He had to cut me off, because he was working and there were people in line. Joe also had a club on Lincoln Avenue between Webster and Belden for a while. I recall seeing the Ron Carter Quartet and the Messengers feat. Bill Hardman when the Showcase was in the Quiet Night location, upstairs at Belmont and Sheffield.

[joyclean]

@ghairraigh the place on wells in old town

was right down the street from the hungry

eye. i think it was named the birdhouse. it

was sixty-five i saw wes montgomery with

his brothers and stanley turrentine shirley

scott when they came to town peace.

[FilippoParisi]

Grandi!!!!