Maxine Gordon

 
Maxine Gordon is a historian and archivist. Former collaborator of Gil Evans, Shirley Scott or Louis Hayes, she was the wife of saxophonist Dexter Gordon.

(external link : www.maxinegordon.com)
 
Maxine Gordon - Dexter Gordon - Sophisticated Giant
2021
French edition
Lenka lente
sold out
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.


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