One Flight Up [Import]

Dexter Gordon | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 22, 2008)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: EMI Japan
• ASIN: B001CRGTJG
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,362,565 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Tanya

2. Coppin' the Haven

3. Darn That Dream

4. Kong Neptune [#][*]

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Quintessential Dexter, January 31, 2001

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Al W. "Al. W." (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: One Flight Up (Audio CD)

This is one of THE all time desert island Blue Note recordings. Though not mentioned as often as titles such as "Blue Train" or "Somethin' Else," this recording presents Dexter's tenor front and center. Great tunes and sympathetic support create subtle tension and release. Some of this music was recently featured at the beginning of Ken Burn's "Jazz" episode 10. I hope this will be re-released as part of Blue Note's RVG series in the near future. Good listening!

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Masterful, January 10, 2006

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Travis Weir (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: One Flight Up (Audio CD)

My God, that classic, classic bassline to Tanya still resonates in my soul today, these many years later. As well, Dex's blowing on "Darn That Dream" still gets me all emotional and teary to this day.

What happens when you combine one of the greatest ever jazz tenormen along with the most underrated trumpeter this side of Miles ? Pure and utter magic.

18 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Transcendent heights, September 4, 2005

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Samuel Chell (Kenosha,, WI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: One Flight Up (Audio CD)

Stop! Time! Enough! Moratorium! That's what I've been telling myself since CD's started becoming as much of a space and storage problem in my digs as LP's. I don't need another Sonny Stitt record, or for that matter another Van Gelder-engineered Blue Note date. I'm going to sell them on Ebay and donate the proceeds to the Red Cross.

But then I picked up yet another recording by the master storyteller of them all, Mr. Long Tall. This time he's not only one flight above every other musical narrator on the planet: he's delivering his soul-stirring message from Mt. Sinai. Doesn't matter which of the four tracks you single out: Dexter is equally inspired on each, spinning out stories that proceed from one climax to the next, "nailing" you with each carefully aimed musical word. His rhetoric is so compelling it doesn't matter if you recognize all of his serendipitous quotes: they become part of the total fabric of his sermon.

Although this album has acquired a semi-cult following because of Dexter's marathon solo on "Tanya" (hear Kurt Elling's equally amazing transcription on "The Messenger"), his contructions on the alternate harmonies of "Darn That Dream" are no less impressive. And if you need further evidence of Dexter's command, "King Neptune" provides that and more--bassist Nils Orsted Pederson and drummer Art Taylor following the Tower of Power with the hardest swinging sounds on the date.

I only pity a Donald Byrd, a Kenny Drew, or any instrumentalist that has to follow L.T. On the other hand, in air this rarefied it doesn't hurt to have a chance to catch your breath.