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Nice tunes, but why did they have to destroy the sound quality by running the master into a cheap PC noise reduction system and then claim that it is a better sounding 20 bit release?
I've been looking for ages for the older CD release of it that is not tampered with like this release is.

Two albums were released by Prestige from material recorded at a two-day session by Dexter Gordon in April 1969; this is the second one (TOWER OF POWER was the first). Excellent tune selection and a very supportive rhythm section (Barry Harris [p] Buster Williams [b] Albert Heath [d]) make this album a success. FRIED BANANAS, a tune Dexter loved and seemed to play whenever he had the chance, gets a good reading here; Dexter's connection to (the early) John Coltrane is obvious on medium-up performances such as this. The 4x4's with Heath are also exiting. I don't know who BOSTON BERNIE was, but he's based on ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE; it's a nice composition taken up here. The Jobim bossa tune MEDITATION features a wonderfully sunny, bright and airy Barry Harris on piano. Two tunes (STICKY WICKET and LADYBIRD) bring in James Moody alongside Dexter; the first tune is a funky blues, but the second, a Tadd Dameron composition, has the better solos - both are excellent, though. Gordon's gut-honest, vibratoless tone is on full display on this date - it's beautiful. I think I like this CD a tad better than the TOWER OF POWER, but both can be highly recommended.