Cheese Cake
Dexter Gordon Quartet
Harvest Jazz Festival, Paul Masson Vineyards, Calif., 1980
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Originally recorded for his 1962 album “Go,” “Cheese Cake” is part of what would be a very critically acclaimed album.
During Philadelphia native Gordon’s four-decade career, he became key in putting the dialogue of bebop to the tenor saxophone. Six years after this performance he would claim a Grammy and be entered into the French Order of Arts and Letters.
Personnel:
Dexter Gordon, tenor sax
Kirk Lightsey, piano
David Eubanks, bass
Eddie Gladden, drums
Ella Fitzgerald