by Scott Yanow
During a two-day period (July 20-21, 1967) tenor-saxophonist Dexter Gordon and his quartet (pianist Kenny Drew, bassist Niels Pederson and drummer Albert &Tootie& Heath) recorded enough music to fill up three CDs, all of which have been released by the English Black Lion label. Four of the six standards on this hard-swinging set (&But Not for me,& &Take the 'A' Train,& &Blues Walk& and &Love for Sale&) are over ten minutes long while the other two (&For All We Know& and &I Guess I'll Have to Hang My Tears out to Dry& are a little more concise). Throughout, Dexter Gordon is in consistently creative form, making this CD well worth getting by his fans.