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Tangerine (Dexter Gordon album)

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Released
  
1975

Tangerine(1972)
  
Generation(1972)

Release date
  
1975

Genre
  
Jazz

Length
  
42:36

Artist
  
Dexter Gordon

Producer
  
Ozzie Cadena

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Recorded
  
June 22 & 28, 1972Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey

Label
  
Universal Music (Argentina)

Similar
  
Dexter Gordon albums, Jazz albums

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Tangerine is an album by saxophonist Dexter Gordon which was recorded in 1972 and released on the Prestige label.

Contents

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Reception

Lindsay Planer of Allmusic states, "It certainly ranks up there as one of Gordon's greats". Derek Taylor reviewed the CD reisssue for All About Jazz in 2000 stating "While this disc isn’t a classic on par with say much of his Blue Note work it still offers up immediate proof of why he resides in the upper echelon of the tenor saxophone hierarchy".

Track listing

All compositions by Dexter Gordon except as indicated

  1. "Tangerine" (Johnny Mercer, Victor Schertzinger) - 8:54
  2. "August Blues" - 9:47
  3. "What It Was" - 8:07
  4. "Days of Wine and Roses" (Henry Mancini, Mercer) - 8:43
  • Recorded at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on June 22 (tracks 1-3) and June 28 (track 4), 1972

    • Personnel

  • Dexter Gordon - tenor saxophone
  • Thad Jones - trumpet, flugelhorn (tracks 1-3)
  • Hank Jones (tracks 1-3), Cedar Walton (track 4) - piano
  • Stanley Clarke (tracks 1-3), Buster Williams (tracks 4) - bass
  • Louis Hayes (tracks 1-3), Billy Higgins (tracks 4) - drums

    • Songs

    1Tangerine9:04
    2August Blues9:56
    3What It Was8:16

    References

    Tangerine (Dexter Gordon album) Wikipedia
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