Dexter Gordon “Our Man In Paris”

Posted on October 26, 2007
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Everyone knows that I’m a big Dexter Gordon fan. I love listening to Our Man in Paris. Dexter Gordon has such a relaxed way of playing. It’s what I want my playing to be like–laid back. Too bad there’s nothing laid back about me.

When I stick the CD in the CD player and Scrapple From The Apple starts to play, everything in the world is good. It’s one of the few instrumental CD’s that I have that I can sing along with.

My father toured Europe with Dexter Gordon long before I was born. When my mother talks about him, she always says, “Dexter was such a gentleman.” I never met him.

I remember watching Round Midnight with my father. During the movie my father kept saying, “That’s just what he was like. That’s not acting, he was just being himself.”

Whether he was a gentleman or not, I like the way he played. If you don’t have the CD, you should consider adding it to your collection.