Quickie Quiz
When Dexter Gordon first came back and recorded for Blue Note in the 1960s, his first two dates were Doin’ Allright and Dexter Calling. His next recording was as a sideman. To whom was he a sideman, and what was the name of the LP? Extra credit: Who were the other musicians? You can look it up, but it’s more fun if you don’t.
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I think it was Herbie Hancock’s Takin Off (4107, if i remember correctly)
Other musicians, Butch Warren Billy Higgins
And Freddie Hubbard ! ooops
didn’t he also make albums with Horace Parlan?
he made some BN albums around that time?
I think Michel, as we expect from him, gave quickly the correct response.
IMHO Maarten is not right, it was Booker Ervin who was on a Horace Parlan record, with a guitarist, I believe Grant Green.
Yes, Michel is correct, as always. And Rudolf as well: It was Booker Ervin on the Horace Parlan record. The only other record I can think of on which Dexter was a sideman is the Stan Levey record, This Time The Drum’s On Me. This, of course, does not count his collaborations with Jackie McLean, Booker Ervin, Gene Ammons and Wardell Gray, and his early recordings with Fats Navarro, Leo Parker, et al.