Dexter Gordon - One Flight Up LP (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) '-the-clayton-hamilton-jazz-orchestra There Ain't No Sweet Man

There Ain't No Sweet Man That's Worth the Salt of My Tears

8 Part Xii – Blues

21st century update on the spiritual jazz tradition

pianist LaMont Johnson

Dexter Gordon - One Flight Up LP (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) '-the-clayton-hamilton-jazz-orchestra There Ain't No Sweet ManBlue Note, 1965 Dexter Gordon had been living in Europe for several years when he recorded One Flight Up, one of his acknowledged masterpiece albums, in Paris in June of 1964. Its all here: Dexters magnificently huge sound, Donald Byrd in peak form on trumpet, the subtle sophistication of pianist Kenny Drew, the utter brilliance of the then teenaged bass phenom Niels Henning Orsted Pederson, and the rock steady swing of drummer Art Taylor. The opening