Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon
by Gordon, Maxine
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0520280644
- ISBN 13
- 9780520280649
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About This Item
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018. 3rd pr.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 279 pages, b&w photos. Sophisticated Giant presents the life and legacy of tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon (1923–1990), one of the major innovators of modern jazz. In a context of biography, history, and memoir, Maxine Gordon has completed the book that her late husband began, weaving his “solo” turns with her voice and a chorus of voices from past and present. Reading like a jazz composition, the blend of research, anecdote, and a selection of Dexter’s personal letters reflects his colorful life and legendary times. It is clear why the celebrated trumpet genius Dizzy Gillespie said to Dexter, “Man, you ought to leave your karma to science.” Clean copy. Record # 383562
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 383562
- Title
- Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon
- Author
- Gordon, Maxine
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 3rd pr.
- ISBN 10
- 0520280644
- ISBN 13
- 9780520280649
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley
- Date Published
- 2018
- Keywords
- music, Jazz, , .
- Bookseller catalogs
- Music;
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