One Flight Up (1964)
Dexter GordonThis one wasn’t planned. The I/50 was still warming up when Dexter Gordon’s “Tanya” drifted in, following a Freddie Hubbard track I’d half-listened to while settling in. And then suddenly I was listening. Really listening. Some nights work that way: the music chooses you before you’ve chosen it. Right away, the sound caught my attention. The bass—Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen—wasn’t glued to the center of the stage …