Go (Dexter Gordon album)

Go!
Studio album by Dexter Gordon
Released	Third week of December 1962 [1]
Recorded	August 27, 1962
Studio	Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs
Genre	hard bop
Length	37:44
Label	Blue Note BLP 4112
Producer	Alfred Lion
Dexter Gordon chronology
Landslide (1961-62) Go! (1962) A Swingin' Affair (1962)

Go! is a studio album by jazz musician Dexter Gordon featuring Sonny Clark, Butch Warren and Billy Higgins, recorded on August 27, 1962 and released in the same year on Blue Note. According to the liner notes by Ira Gitler, this session was "not recorded in a nightclub performance but, in its informal symmetry, it matches the relaxed atmosphere that the best of those made in that manner engender. Everyone was really together, in all the most positive meanings of that word." It was recorded by Rudy Van Gelder at the Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs.

Critical reception and legacy

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Down Beat	[2]
AllMusic	[3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[4]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[5]

Since its release, Go! has received very positive reviews from critics, with uDiscover Music—published by Universal Music Group—declaring that it is "unanimously hailed by jazz critics as one of his greatest ever albums". ^[6] AllMusic giving it a five star rating. The album was re-released in March 1999 as part of Blue Note's RVG Series, produced by Michael Cuscuna. In 2019, Go! was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". ^{[7] [8]}

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Cheese Cake"	Dexter Gordon	6:33
2.	"I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry"	Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn	5:23
3.	"Second Balcony Jump"	Billy Eckstine, Gerald Valentine	7:05
4.	"Love for Sale"	Cole Porter	7:40
5.	"Where Are You?"	Jimmy McHugh, Harold Adamson	5:21
6.	"Three O'Clock in the Morning"	Julián Robledo, Dorothy Terriss	5:42

Personnel

• Dexter Gordon – tenor saxophone
• Sonny Clark – piano
• Butch Warren – bass
• Billy Higgins – drums

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Notes

1. "Album Cover of the Week". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. December 15, 1962. p. 33. Retrieved January 17, 2023– via Google Books.
2. Down Beat: February 14, 1963 Vol. 30, No. 4
3. AllMusic review
4. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 87. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
5. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 581. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
6. Waring, Charles (August 27, 2022). "'Go': How Dexter Gordon Raced Into The Jazz History Books". Universal Music Group . Retrieved February 28, 2023.
7. Andrews, Travis M. (March 20, 2019). "Jay-Z, a speech by Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and 'Schoolhouse Rock!' among recordings deemed classics by Library of Congress". The Washington Post. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
8. US Library of Congress adds recordings by Cyndi Lauper, Jay-Z and others-YAHOO! News
9. Summer of '62: Dexter Gordon's GO and A SWINGIN' AFFAIR – Blue Note Records

External links

• Go at Discogs (list of releases)
• Go at MusicBrainz (list of releases)