Go! (Classic Vinyl Series): Vinyl LP SOVRSAPRIL24SALE Paris Eyes

Paris Eyes

That’s the usual reaction of anyone fortunate enough to have come across this remarkable (and remarkably rare) session from 1963

Brooks is joined here by Johnny Coles on trumpet

Crystalline

Brooks is one of the most under-appreciated tenor players and composers of the hard bop era

Go! (Classic Vinyl Series): Vinyl LP SOVRSAPRIL24SALE Paris EyesBy the time he recorded GO! in 1962, Dexter Gordon had already lived several lifetimes in jazz. He was among the first to adapt the language of bebop to the tenor saxophone in the 1940s, but after a decade in which personal troubles limited his output, he signed with Blue Note in 1961 and began a run of essential albums that marked a rebirth for the tenor giant. Featuring a quartet with Sonny Clark on piano, Butch Warren on bass, and Billy Higgins on