Dexter Gordon & Slide Hampton "You Don't Know What Love Is" (1969)

From the 1969 album "A Day In Copenhagen"

Dexter Gordon (February 27, 1923 April 25, 1990) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and actor. He is considered one of the first bebop tenor players. A famous photograph by Herman Leonard of Gordon smoking a cigarette during a set at the Royal Roost in New York City in 1948 is one of the most iconic images in the history of jazz.
Gordon's height was 6 feet 6 inches (about 198 cm), and so consequently he was also known as 'Long Tall Dexter'

Locksley Wellington "Slide" Hampton (born April 21, 1932) is a grammy award winning American jazz trombonist, composer and arranger.

Personnel:

Dexter Gordon - tenor sax
Slide Hampton - trombone
Dizzy Reece - trumpet
Kenny Drew - piano
Art Taylor - drums
Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen - bass

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Dexter
• Gordon
• Slide
• Hampton
• You
• Don't
• Know
• What
• Love
• Is
• Day
• In
• Copenhagen
• Hard
• Bop
• Jazz

[modibolegrand]

Slide is my idol. point blank. period.

[mikael119977]

This is a killer and Dexter G is a true master. A passionate human and muscisian.

[originalmusicworks]

Wow, I think one of my favorite jazz songs after hearing it only a few times. Just great.

It even inspired me to finally upload a portion of my favorite version of Green Dolphin Street (Eddie Lockjaw Davis)... if interested, just search "On Green Dolphin Street - Eddie Lockjaw Davis" or plug "PqwnZlc2v7s" into a YouTube url

Great post though, what a song! I'm going to listen to a lot more Dexter Gordon, that's for sure!

[covalova75]

This is one of my favorite albums of all time. The college I went to had only one copy of this CD and it was of course scratched. It has been out of print forever and the quality of this posting is really good. Please post the rest of the album if you are able to. It would benefit all concerned. Slide Hampton plays a super hip solo on the blues on this album.

[sepulveda67]

One of the best version I've heard. Sonny's cover is different in every respect and both are original.

[kfdisawesome]

@JazzLoverKhurram true that

just started to transcribe dexters solo... this is gonna be fun!!

[JazzLoverKhurram]

@kfdisawesome it took me a while and I still prefer Dexter Bird Rollins and Cannonball over Trane

[kfdisawesome]

@JazzLoverKhurram ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

i never got into coltrane......

[JazzLoverKhurram]

Dexter was a great influence on John Coltrane - one of my other great sax heroes, who of course was the inventor of the "Coltraphone" - a fabulous tenor sax-shaped instrument renowned for playing sheets of sound and relaying messages from the Cosmos in the hands of JC and his descendants/disciples ;-)

[honeybee7700]

great