Cheese Cake

Dexter Gordon · 1962

Context

Composition by Dexter Gordon that opens the album Go! (Blue Note, December 1962), recorded on 27 August 1962 at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs. Gordon plays with Sonny Clark, Butch Warren and Billy Higgins; the piece runs 6 min 33 s.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Hard bop. Among the origins and influences of Hard bop: Blues, spirituals, work songs, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).

By the same artist

• I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry (1962)
• Second Balcony Jump (1962)
• Where Are You? (1962)
• Three O'Clock in the Morning (1962)
• Willow Weep for Me (1963)
• Stairway to the Stars (1963)

Sources

• EN: Go (Dexter Gordon album)

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