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Something Different (Dexter Gordon album)

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Released
  
1980

Artist
  
Dexter Gordon

Label
  
SteepleChase Records

Producer
  
Nils Winther

Release date
  
1980

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
September 13, 1975 in Copenhagen, Denmark

Length
  
66:51 CD with bonus tracks

Something Different (1975)
  
Bouncin' with Dex (1975)

Similar
  
The Apartment, Generation, Bouncin' with Dex, Tangerine, True Blue

Something Different is an album led by saxophonist Dexter Gordon recorded in 1975 and released on the Danish SteepleChase label in 1980.

Contents

Reception

In his review for AllMusic, Scott Yanow said "the music is at the same high quality level and in the same modern bop genre as one would expect".

Track listing

  1. "Freddie Freeloader" (Miles Davis) - 8:33
  2. "When Sunny Gets Blue" (Jack Segal, Marvin Fisher) - 6:08
  3. "Invitation" (Bronisław Kaper) - 9:13
  4. "Freddie Freeloader" [Take 3] (Davis) - 7:48 Bonus track on CD reissue
  5. "Yesterday's Mood" [Take 4] (Slide Hampton) - 8:03 Bonus track on CD reissue
  6. "Winther's Calling" (Dexter Gordon) - 9:55
  7. "Polkadots and Moonbeams" - (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke) - 9:03
  8. "Yesterday's Mood" (Hampton) - 8:08

Personnel

  • Dexter Gordon - tenor saxophone
  • Philip Catherine - guitar
  • Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen - bass
  • Billy Higgins - drums
  • Songs

    1Freddie Freeloader (feat Philip Catherine - Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen & Billy Higgins)Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen - Billy Higgins - Philip Catherine8:34
    2When Sunny Gets Blue (feat Philip Catherine - Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen & Billy Higgins)Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen - Billy Higgins - Philip Catherine6:09
    3Invitation (feat Philip Catherine - Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen & Billy Higgins)Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen - Billy Higgins - Philip Catherine9:14

    References

    Something Different (Dexter Gordon album) Wikipedia