Go (Dexter Gordon album)

Go!
Studio album by Dexter Gordon
Released 1962
Recorded August 27, 1962
Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs
Genre Jazz
Length 37:44
Label Blue Note
BST 84112
Producer Alfred Lion
Dexter Gordon chronology
Dexter Calling...
(1961)		 Go!
(1962)		 A Swingin' Affair
(1962)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Yahoo! Music (favorable)[2]

Go! is the tenth studio album by jazz musician Dexter Gordon, recorded on August 27, 1962 and released in the same year on Blue Note. According to the liner notes by Ira Gitler, this session was "not recorded in a nightclub performance but, in its informal symmetry, it matches the relaxed atmosphere that the best of those made in that manner engender. Everyone was really together, in all the most positive meanings of that word." It was recorded by Rudy Van Gelder at the Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs. The album was listed as one of the 100 best studio albums in the history of jazz at digitaldreamdoor.com[3] Since its release, Go! has received very positive reviews from critics, with Allmusic giving it a five star rating. The album was re-released in March 1999 as part of Blue Note's RVG Series, produced by Michael Cuscuna.

Contents

Track listing

No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Cheese Cake"   Dexter Gordon 6:33
2. "Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry"   Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn 5:23
3. "Second Balcony Jump"   Billy Eckstine, Gerald Valentine 7:05
4. "Love for Sale"   Cole Porter 7:40
5. "Where Are You"   Jimmy McHugh, Harold Adamson 5:21
6. Untitled   Dorothy Terris, Julian Robledo 5:40

Personnel

External links

Notes

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ Yahoo! Music review
  3. ^ Digitaldreamdoor, 100 greatest jazz albums.