Jazz composer Chuck Owen was busy last weekend, and this Sunday one of Owen’s Jazz Surge soloists, Jack Wilkins, spends an afternoon paying tribute to late saxophonist (and actor) Dexter Gordon, who died in 1990. “Cheese Cake” and “Fried Bananas”—highlights from Gordon’s catalog marked by a big, broad sound and conversational solos—are on the menu for this homage to Long Tall Dexter who helped revitalize interest in straight-ahead jazz in the U.S. La Lucha and trumpeter James Suggs are part of the ensemble for this matinee.
Jazz composer Chuck Owen was busy last weekend, and this Sunday one of Owen’s Jazz Surge soloists, Jack Wilkins, spends an afternoon paying tribute to late saxophonist (and actor) Dexter Gordon, who died in 1990. “Cheese Cake” and “Fried Bananas”—highlights from Gordon’s catalog marked by a big, broad sound and conversational solos—are on the menu for this homage to Long Tall Dexter who helped revitalize interest in straight-ahead jazz in the U.S. La Lucha and trumpeter James Suggs are part of the ensemble for this matinee.