Dexter Gordon. Sophisticated giant. Ediz. italiana
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L'autobiografia che Dexter Gordon non riuscì mai a completare, ripresa ed elaborata dalla moglie Maxine fino a trasformarsi in uno dei testi più profondi, sinceri e sorprendenti della letteratura contemporanea sul jazz. Un'opera tanto ricca, stratificata e imprevedibile quanto può esserlo una grande composizione jazzistica. Nelle parole di Maxine, quella di Dexter Gordon è «la storia della fenice che risorge: lui che torreggiava dai suoi due metri d'altezza, il simbolo del cool, il musicista che ha portato il linguaggio del bebop sul sassofono tenore, l'uomo che per un decennio è scomparso tra droga e prigione riuscendo poi a riemergere, il musicista che partì dagli Stati Uniti nel 1962 per tornare a New York, quattordici anni dopo, accolto da folle plaudenti». Fra queste pagine si incontrano molti protagonisti di quella che Gordon considerava la sua "famiglia jazz": i padri Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton, Count Basie, Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster; i figli Wayne Shorter, Joe Henderson e John Coltrane, oltre ai tanti fratelli e compagni di viaggio, da Fats Navarro a Mary Lou Williams, da Dizzy Gillespie a Bud Powell e Wardell Gray. Un libro che getta finalmente lo sguardo nel profondo di una vita che ha alternato altezze sbalorditive a tragici precipizi, ricca di contraddizioni ed enigmi, resa indimenticabile da innumerevoli registrazioni e persino da un film che portò Gordon a un passo dall'Oscar. Una storia che in ogni pagina riflette l'amore per il jazz e l'instancabile ricerca artistica di una personalità gigantesca. Una storia che, nonostante tutto, lo stesso Gordon volle giudicare a lieto fine.
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- Pagine: 294
- Data di uscita: 10-10-2019
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He was a towering figure at six feet five inches, the epitome of cool, the musician who translated the language of bebop to the tenor saxophone, the man who disappeared for a decade into drugs and jail terms and managed to emerge with a sound to be heard. He made a movie with French director Bertran Leggi tutto
I give up. I'm about 60 pages in and this might just be the worst biography I've ever read. Two major complaints are that it's disjointed and much too conversational. It's like the author sat with her tape recorder at a restaurant with a friend or a person to interview or notes from Dexter, chatted
This is for the Audible version. A wonderful bio written by his widow Maxine Gordon. From his Los Angeles roots and a father who was a well regarded physician to the early LA scene its all there. Maxine does an excellent job in filling in Dexter's life in the fifties (a decade he did not want to tal Leggi tutto
This biography was pretty well written, though it took her 28 years to finish. Dexter Gordon had a colorful life full of beauty and friends and also sadness from his involvement with drugs. The book doesn't skip the sad parts but focuses mostly on the music that was his life. And most importantly th Leggi tutto
An outstanding biography and love story in jazz. A story of abuse and racial discrimination and eventual artistic and human triumph. A must for all jazz lovers.
Maxine Gordon was the last of Dexter Gordon's several wives and she has written a biography of Gordon, a task with which he charged her before he died in 1990. The saxophonist had actually done some writing on an autobiography before he died and Maxine Gordon was able to use this material in her boo Leggi tutto
Well researched & beautifully written!
Maxine Gordon values people who keep their word. This book fulfills a vow she made to her husband Dexter Gordon that she would finish his autobiography for him if he died before he could complete it. So this book, in a way, is 2 parts autobiography and 1 part biography. Maxine uses Dexter’s own word Leggi tutto
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