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November 28th, 2006 in Jazz, Photography, Smoking Section by lpcoverlover | 2 Comments

Dexter Blows Hot and Cool  Dexter Gordon  Dootone Records  This is high art.   The photographer is Hermann Leonard who shot most jazz legends beginning in the 1940’s. I met him once in the eighties. Nice guy. A lot of his photos include the curling smoke of a musician’s cigarette. This is a famous shot of Dexter Gordon on the rare Dootone label.  A beautiful cover for a beautiful jazz record.

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1. #1 Fred Seibert says:
   November 28th, 2006 at 4:41 am

   You know, it’s funny. I was at the Jazz Standard in New York recently, after maybe a 20 year club hiatus. It was a half hour or so before I realized why it was so different than I remembered…NO SMOKE! The New York anti-smoking laws (spreading throughout the globe) has taken away a cultural touchstone of jazz. In fact, the first cogent thought I had was “What’ll happen to the ‘new’ Herman Leonard?!”

2. #2 lpcoverlover says:
   November 28th, 2006 at 5:05 am

   Thanks for the note Fred. It’s Dizzy’s Coke-a-cola Theater now, not the Kool Jazz Festival.