COMPANY: Blue Note
ARTIST: Dexter Gordon
CATEGORY: VINYL
COMPOSER: Bud Powell

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''It is a famous jazz recording from the 1960s, and one of the all-time classics - not only for Dexter Gordon's imperious sound (an inspiration to Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane) but for a rhythm section featuring first-generation bebop legends Bud Powell on piano and drummer Kenny Clarke, both of them Paris residents on this date in 1963.
The Rollins connection is clearly audible in Gordon's mix of gruff sound and melodic agility in his long solo on Charlie Parker's Scrapple From the Apple, whereas the saxophonist's expansively weighty ballad sound on Willow Weep for Me suggests a less vaporous and disconsolate Lester Young.
Clarke's tickling cymbal sound and offbeat accents set up an exhilarating lope through A Night in Tunisia, with Gordon at his most leisurely, ambling behind the beat.
Though the troubled genius Bud Powell sounds withdrawn, his ideas are concise and telling, and the whole set is a tenor-sax tour de force from a key figure bridging bebop and its swing predecessor.'' The Guardian