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WBGO - Hear Woody Shaw and Dexter Gordon On Tour, and On Fire, In Newly Discovered Recordings
Tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon and trumpeter Woody Shaw hailed from two different jazz generations, but found common purpose in the music. Now each artist has a new album on the near horizon, featuring vibrant live performances largely recorded in Japan, and previously unreleased. Dexter Gordon Quartet Tokyo 1975 and Woody Shaw Tokyo 1981 are both due out on July 13, in CD and LP editions, from Elemental Music.
El País - The return of the titans
Unreleased albums by Grant Green, Dexter Gordon and Woody Shaw revitalise the jazz scene. (Original article in Spanish)
Night Lights Jazz Radio - Return To Xanadu: Rebirth Of A Label
In the mid-1970s Don Schlitten, a former art and musical conservatory student who had made a name for himself over the past 20 years as a jazz producer for Prestige, RCA and other labels, launched Xanadu Records. Schlitten's label, named in tribute to Orson Welles' fabled Citizen Kane movie, documented bebop and hardbop artists who were not then in favor in the mainstream jazz world, such as Barry Harris, Jimmy Heath, and Charles McPherson. Few of the albums have ever been reissued on CD and the original LPs have been highly sought collectors' items.
Elemental Music to Reissue 25 Albums Originally on Xanadu Label
Beginning June 30, Elemental Music, in partnership with the Orchard, will roll out a series of 25 reissues of albums originally released on Xanadu Records in the 1970s and ’80s. The recordings, re-released under the banner of the Xanadu Master Edition Series, include titles by Jimmy and Albert Heath, Barry Harris, Dexter Gordon, Kenny Barron, Joe Farrell, Charles McPherson, Al Cohn, Cecil Payne and Duke Jordan, Sonny Criss, Bob Berg and others.
Dusted Magazine: Red Garland Trio – Swingin’ on the Korner
As an original member of Miles Davis’ first classic quintet, pianist Red Garland possessed cachet few of his peers could surpass. Eventually, even those sterling credentials couldn’t guarantee gigs and Garland’s fortunes fluctuated in the years after his pivotal tenure with Davis. He embarked on a prolific solo career in 1956, recording a series of albums for the Prestige and Fantasy labels that would eventually number well over three dozen.