CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Dexter Gordon: Doin' Allright and Go

In the spring of 1961, Dexter Gordon was living in Los Angeles, against his will. Born in the city, the dynamic tenor saxophonist had left town in the mid-1940s to work and record in New York. But drug addiction plagued his career just as it was taking off. Arrested in 1952 for possession, he was sentenced to a two-year term. Arrested again on drug charges in California in 1955, Gordon was sentenced this time to a longer stretch. During his years away, the independent sound he had pioneered was ...

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