Dexter Gordon no Royal Roost, N.Y., 1948 (foto de Herman Leonard)

"(Lester Young) was my ideal. Ever since I first heard him he appealed to me greatly. So I tried to emulate him in all ways—holding the horn up, the metal mouthpiece. Anything Lester did was beautiful. That was it. I felt everything he played. Whatever he had to say really got through to me. I tried to learn some of his solos. I never really tried to learn too much from copying the record note by note. I did that a little, but mostly what I tried to get from him was the conception that he had of playing the tenor. That’s what I wanted to grasp."

Dexter Gordon, imortalizado no filme Round Midnight de Bertrand Tavernier, é um dos saxofonistas a quem o jazz moderno deve muito. Influenciado por Lester Young e Illinois Jacquet, marcante para Sonny Rollins e John Coltrane, por sua vez, Gordon tinha um som rico e vibrante. Go, o disco que gravou para a Blue Note em Agosto de 1962, antes de partir para uma estadia de 15 anos na Europa, era o seu disco favorito- incluía Cheese Cake, uma das mais célebres composições do saxofonista, num álbum tocado ainda por Sonny Clark, Butch Warren e Billy Higgins.

Com Betânia Valente e Andreia Lago

2ª a 6ªf- 9.45/ 16.45/ 19.20