In her memoir, Sophisticated Giant, Maxine Gordon writes this about her late husband, tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon: “Dexter Gordon was known as 'Society Red.' He got this name when he was with the ...

Imagine a Detroit dive bar in 1969, where the feral howl of The Stooges collides with the towering tenor of Dexter Gordon in a haze of sweat, distortion, and cigarette smoke. Raw Blow Power, released ...

Dexter Gordon’s career as a jazz saxophonist began in the early ’40s playing with such greats as Nat King Cole, Lionel Hampton, and Dizzy Gillespie, but most of his following decade was derailed by ...

Recorded live by the Danish National Radio at a jazz clinic for music students at a high school in Denmark in 1967. The 50 minutes of music (five tunes).

Maxine B. Gordon is building a new perspective on jazz history. In her upcoming book, “Quartette: Stories from the Lives of Four Women Jazz Musicians—Maxine Sullivan, Velma Middleton, Melba Liston, ...