Dexter Gordon – Our Man in Paris
January 10, 2023
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A hard bop masterwork defined by the fiery saxophone of Dexter Gordon and the confident strides of pianist Bud Powell, Our Man in Paris is an expatriate piece that issues from a deep mind of America. By the early ’60s, Free Jazz was giving Hard Bop a run for its place as form of the popular avant garde, but this record’s vibrant, inventive, and melodic (if unexpectedly so) interplay proved categorically that the form still had an enormous amount of kick in it.
