Blues à la Suisse

Blues à la Suisse
Live album by Dexter Gordon
Released 1974
Recorded July 7, 1973
Venue Montreux Jazz Festival, Switzerland
Genre Jazz
Label Prestige
P-10079
Producer Orrin Keepnews
Dexter Gordon chronology
All Souls'
(1972)		 Blues à la Suisse
(1974)		 The Meeting
(1973)

Blues à la Suisse is a live album by American saxophonist Dexter Gordon recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland in 1973 and released on the Prestige label.[1][2]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[4]

AllMusic critic Scott Yanow stated "Tenor-great Dexter Gordon sounds fine on these four extended performances ... The rhythm section (Hampton Hawes on electric piano, electric bassist Bob Cranshaw and drummer Kenny Clarke) is not as attuned to Gordon's music as one would hope (the electronics do not really blend in well), making this a somewhat average (but still fairly enjoyable) bop session".[3]

Track listing

  1. "Gingerbread Boy" (Jimmy Heath) – 12:43
  2. "Blues à la Suisse" (Dexter Gordon) – 10:26
  3. "Some Other Spring" (Arthur Herzog, Jr., Irene Kitchings) – 6:02
  4. "Secret Love" (Sammy Fain, Paul Francis Webster) – 14:31

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Dexter Gordon catalog accessed March 7, 2017
  2. ↑ Prestige Records discography, accessed March 7, 2017
  3. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. Blues à la Suisse – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved March 7, 2017.
  4. ↑ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 88. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
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