Dexter Gordon Quartet - Live in Paris (1973) | Qwest TV

🔔 Subscribe, watch live and join the community of music lovers: 📺 Watch Qwest TV around the clock on your Smart TV: 💻 Enjoy more than 1,300 full length concerts, premium documentaries and exclusive interviews: ABOUT THIS VIDEO: In this 1973 show in Paris, deep-toned, lyrical tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon leads his quartet on a powerful journey steeped in his iconic role as an original bebop player who influenced such stars as Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane in their ‘50s youth. What’s significant about this tour was that a year later in 1992 Gordon left the U.S. to become an expatriate in Copenhagen for 14 years. While he had a booming career at the time, over the years many fans and record executives lost interest until Columbia Records president Bruce Lundvall signed him on the spot after his rare Stateside show at the Village Vangua