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Dexter Gordon Quotes
When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition. If you don't understand what it's about, you're depriving yourself of being really able to communicate this poem.
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| Birth: | 27th February, 1923 |
| Death: | 25th April, 1990 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Actor, Composer, Musician |
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Dexter Gordon was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and an Academy Award-nominated actor. He is regarded as one of the first and most important musicians to adapt the bebop musical language of people like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Bud Powell to the tenor saxophone.
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