"I like the word “jazz”. That word has been my whole life. I understand the cats when they take exception to the name.....But to me, that’s my whole life."
......Dexter Gordon
"Gordon was an honest and genuinely original artist of deep and abiding humor and of tremendous personal charm......which he impareted to his music: size, radiance, kindness, a genius for discontinuous logic."
.....Gary Giddins, writer