A Swingin' Affair Format:LP Don't Teach Us Nonsense

Don't Teach Us Nonsense

one title never seems to stray from

couldn’t pick a better title for this project

Live At The Barbeque

still standing the test of time and showing how he was way ahead of his time

A Swingin' Affair Format:LP Don't Teach Us NonsenseJust 2 days after saxophonist Dexter Gordon recorded his classic album GO! in August 1962 he brought the same quartet with pianist Sonny Clark, bassist Butch Warren, and drummer Billy Higgins back into Rudy Van Gelders studio to record the equally sublime A Swingin Affair. All the joy and beauty of the great tenor mans music can be found in the irrepressible opener Soy Califa, a Gordon original that moves deftly between Latin and swing rhythms as Dex