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Don Sickler remembers, "As part of Blue Note Records 60th Anniversary celebration, I had the honor of putting together a band around drummer Billy Higgins at The Jazz Standard, one of NYC's fine jazz clubs. We played lots of Dexter Gordon compositions that week, and I vividly remember Billy calling Clubhouse practically every night. You'll hear why when you listen to our audio excerpt!"
The horns break into harmony for one measure of each A section of the melody: both parts are indicated on each lead sheet edition.
Dexter, who had been living in Europe since late 1962, returned to the US in May, 1965, to record three sessions at Rudy Van Gelder's Englewood Cliffs studio (May 27, 28 and 29). The second two days, with the same rhythm section and Bobby Hutcherson on vibes, yielded Le Coiffeur on the "Gettin' Around" album. The first day of the "Clubhouse" session with Freddie Hubbard sat in the can for years. Click on the album name to see what else we have available from it.
Transcribed Tenor Sax Solo: We're making Dexter's tenor solo available in both B-flat and C treble clef concert editions. It's three choruses by one of the masters of the tenor sax. To hear drummer Billy Higgins talking with engineer Rudy Van Gelder and Don Sickler about Dexter Gordon and his earlier (1962) recordings with Dexter (Soy Califa and McSplivens), go to our YouTube channel.
Tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon was born in Los Angeles, CA. In his last year of high school, he received a call from alto saxophonist Marshall Royal asking him to join the Lionel Hampton big band. This led to Dexter's first recording, with the Hampton band, on December 21, 1941. In 1944, after a few weeks with the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra and working and recording with Louis Armstrong's orchestra, Dexter joined Billy Eckstine and recorded with Eckstine's legendary band of soon-to-be jazz superstars that included Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt, Gene Ammons, Leo Parker, Art Blakey, Sarah Vaughan, arranger Tadd Dameron and others, on September 5, 1944. Read more...
