Dexter Gordon - 'Soy Califa - Live From Magleaas Højskole 1967 ' Vinyl LP
Dexter Gordon - 'Soy Califa - Live From Magleaas Højskole 1967 ' Vinyl LP

Dexter Gordon - 'Soy Califa - Live From Magleaas Højskole 1967 ' Vinyl LP

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Soy Califa - Live From Magleaas Højskole 1967


GB1526
Standard 180g 33rpm Vinyl LP

This recording of a Danish TV performance has never been released on vinyl until now. Dexter Gordon is heard at his best and most powerful on these three tracks of the hardest bop, the hippest Afro-inspired music and the most tender of ballads.Recorded on a hot summer's day at Magleaas High School with 'the best rhythm section in Europe'.

Pianist Kenny Drew, the 21 year-old double bassist Niels-Henning Orsted Petersen and drummer Albert 'Tootie' Heath. Jazz at its finest. Mastered and cut using equipment of the highest quality at the Gearbox studio with a Haeco Scully lathe, Westrex RA1700 series amps, Westrex 3DIIIA cutting head Telefunken U73B tube limiter; Maselec master control and equalisation.

"The stuff of legend" - Stuart Nicholson, Jazzwise

"Gearbox has once again done a sterling job of bringing a forgotten gem to the fore" - Bruce Lindsay, All About Jazz
released March 19, 2014

Recorded on August 5, 1967, live at Magleaas High School, by Danish TV.
Producer: Jørgen Nissen

Mastered by Jeremy Cooper and produced by Darrel Sheinman at Gearbox Records

Cut on Haeco Scully lathe with Westrex RA1700 series amps, Westrex 3DIIA cutting head and Telefunken U73B tube limiter; Maselec master control and EQ

Audio Note monitoring for playback and mastering


Credits

Tracklisting

Disc 1

Side 1

    • A1. Soy Califa
    • A2. The Shadow Of Your Smile

Side 2

    • B1. The Blues Up And Down

 

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