By All Means - CD Blue Note Dexter Gordon’s second Blue Note

Dexter Gordon’s second Blue Note album Dexter Calling… recorded in 1961 solidified the tenor saxophonist’s career rebirth with a joyous return to form

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By All Means - CD Blue Note Dexter Gordon’s second Blue NotePianist & composer Aaron Parks expands his trio with bassist Ben Street & drummer Billy Hart into a quartet with the addition of tenor saxophonist Ben Solomon to explore a new color palette on his luminous 3rd Blue Note album By All Means. Although Parks has made his band Little Big the center of his recorded output in recent years, he never stopped writing music that belonged to a different harmonic universe influenced by the likes of Wayne Shorter,