Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon 

Written by Maxine Gordon.

Published by University of California Press (2018).

Available on Amazon.com in Print, Kindle, and Audible.

Reviews

"This [book] is FRESH AIR."

— NPR Music (Read Review)

"Maxine Gordon has produced a homecoming even more dramatic, and perhaps more important, than the one she helped arrange for him [Dexter] in 1976."

— New York Times (Read Review)

" Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon (Univ. of California, Nov.),[is] an informative, well-paced, suitelike literary work... that documents his [Gordon’s] legacy as one of the most influential saxophonists in… history" 

— Publishers Weekly (Read Review)

French Edition

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