| Author | : Maxine Gordon |
| File Size | : 48,8 Mb |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Language | : English |
| Release Date | : 15 September 2020 |
| ISBN | : 9780520350793 |
| Pages | : 296 pages |
Sophisticated Giant by Maxine Gordon Book PDF Summary
Tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon was one of the major innovators of modern jazz. In a context of biography, history, and memoir, Maxine Gordon has completed the book that her late husband began, weaving his "solo" turns with her voice and a chorus of voices from past and present. She shows that his image of the cool jazzman fails to come to terms with the three-dimensional man full of humor and wisdom, a figure who struggled to reconcile being both a creative outsider who broke the rules and a comforting insider who was a son, father, husband, and world citizen. --