This CD gathers all of Dexter Gordon's recordings as a leader for the SAVOY LABEL, with one session each from 1945 and 1946 and two from December 1947. Two of bop's most brilliant--and doomed--players make appearances here. Pianist Bud Powell is present on the eight takes from 1946, adding Tatum-esque filigree to the ballad and driving, incandescent play to the other tracks. Fats Navarro appears on the final session, along with composer-pianist Tadd Dameron, and it's once again apparent that he was Dizzy Gillespie's only serious rival among bop trumpeters........
