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 20th century....
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...
The award-winning biography Sophisticated Giant: The Legacy of Dexter Gordon is now available in French and Spanish. “With ‘Sophisticated Giant,’ Maxine Gordon has produced a homecoming even more dramatic, and perhaps more important, than...
