New Yorker Magazine film historian and writer Richard Brody revisits Dexter Gordon's historic performance from his Academy Award nominated role in the 1986 film Round Midnight.
“If star power is the ability to make oneself the irresistible center of viewers’ attention, filling the whole frame with one’s aura, Gordon is a movie star. . . Essentially, Gordon is the movie.”
— Richard Brody, New Yorker Magazine
DEX101 Born on February 27, 1923, Dexter Gordon® (1923-1990) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist who recorded hundreds of albums throughout his lifetime and was among the most influential musicians of the...
New Yorker Magazine film historian and writer Richard Brody revisits Dexter Gordon's historic performance from his Academy Award nominated role in the 1986 film Round Midnight. “If star power is the...
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