Imagine a Detroit dive bar in 1969, where the feral howl of The Stooges collides with the towering tenor of Dexter Gordon in a haze of sweat, distortion, and cigarette smoke. Raw Blow Power, released ...

Long Tall Dexter; swinger, bebopper, saxophone balladeer; acting the dissipated genius expatriate who was not unlike himself in the movie Round Midnight; his dressed-up persona "Society Red;" the ...

Dexter Gordon’s career as a jazz saxophonist began in the early ’40s playing with such greats as Nat King Cole, Lionel Hampton, and Dizzy Gillespie, but most of his following decade was derailed by ...

Dexter Gordon (1923-1990) was a giant. Playing as a teenager with Lionel Hampton in 1940, and then with Louis Armstrong, Billy Eckstine, Dizzy Gillespie, Tadd Dameron and Wardell Gray, Gordon became a ...

An exhibition exploring the undertold stories of African American artists who sought new possibilities, inspiration and environments in the Nordic countries in the 20th century ...