‘Clubhouse’: How Dexter Gordon Rocked The Joint Yet Again

‘Clubhouse’: How Dexter Gordon Rocked The Joint Yet Again

The 50s were Dexter Gordon’s wilderness years. Musically speaking, it was a lost decade due to the fact that the six-foot six-inch Los Angeles-born saxophonist spent much of it in prison for offenses related to his heroin addiction. But in the following decade, it was a different story. On February 22, 1960, the 36-year-old Gordon was granted a two-year period of parole, and in November of that year, his creative resurgence began when he was off…