Dexter Gordon – Bopland: The Legendary Elks Club Concert, Los Angeles – Compact Disc

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Dexter Gordon – Bopland: The Legendary Elks Club Concert, Los Angeles – Compact Disc

Bopland presents Dexter Gordon in an archival Los Angeles club setting, where his broad tenor sound, relaxed swing and long-form improvising can unfold in real time. The concert format gives the performances room to breathe and captures the direct audience connection that was central to Gordon's reputation.

Recorded at the Elks Auditorium Jazz Concert-Dance on July 6, 1947 in Los Angeles.

The complete release contains 16 selections.

The sequence opens with “Tune-Up / Announcement,” continues through “Bopera (Aka Disorder At The Border)” and “What Is This Thing Called Love?,” and closes with “Unknown Theme (Take 2).”

Brand new, never played and still sealed in the factory plastic

Track Listing

1-1 — Tune-Up / Announcement (2:44)

1-2 — Bopera (Aka Disorder At The Border) (19:18)

1-3 — What Is This Thing Called Love? (13:35)

1-4 — Body And Soul (1:34)

1-5 — Back Breaker (16:22)

2-1 — Tune-Up / Announcement (2:09)

2-2 — Bopland (Aka Byas-A-Drink) (19:07)

2-3 — Bop After Hours (Aka After Hours Bop) (18:28)

2-4 — The Hunt (Aka Rocks 'N' Shoals) (18:08)

3-1 — Perdido (20:21)

3-2 — Merry Go Round Blues (Incomplete) (0:12)

3-3 — Blowin' With Bass (Incomplete) (5:04)

3-4 — Blow, Blow, Blow (14:00)

3-5 — Geronimo (Aka Cherrykoke AKA Cherokee) (21:21)

3-6 — Unknown Theme (Take 1) (0:51)

3-7 — Unknown Theme (Take 2) (0:53)