dexter gordon clubhouse music-product and drummer Lex Humphries on

and drummer Lex Humphries on these sessions from 1960

My Little Suede Shoes (Side A)

Home of Her Legendary Concerts

Drums: Billy Higgins

Trumpet: Tommy Turrentine: Piano: Sonny Clark

dexter gordon clubhouse music-product and drummer Lex Humphries onThe 1950s had been a lost decade for tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon. His career, which he had started so brilliantly as a bebopper in the early '40s, had come to an almost complete standstill due to his heroin addiction and numerous stints in prison. The tide did not turn for him until he was released on parole in early 1960 and went to New York, where he was given a new chance by producer Alfred Lion at Blue Note Records. Gordon knew how to make the