Dexter Gordon

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Dexter Gordon

Real name: Dexter Keith Gordon

Effective period / Period of releases: 1945 - 2024

Born: February 27, 1923 // Los Angeles, California, United States
Died: April 26, 1990 // Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Tenor saxophonist during the bebop era. Gordon was inspired by Lester Young, as well as Herschel Evans and Illinois Jacquet, tenor players of the 1930s and 1940s.