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When he was a younger man, tenorman Dexter Gordon could swing you into ill health with the strength and energy of his playing. By the time he returned to the United States to tour for the first time with his own permanent band after 15 years of residence in Europe, he had invested his tenor saxophone sound with a majesty that that was wholly his own. This change in Dexter's style likely was due to the influence of Ben Webster, who had his own full-throated, inimitable so... MORE
