This was a period when just about every time ex-pat Dexter Gordon played a club date local radio was on hand to capture the moment. Quite often Dex relied on local musicians who, though most eager to please, didn’t always have the edge as the likes of Drew and Taylor who had also chosen to put down roots in Scandinavia and with whom he worked whenever the situation presented itself. It can’t be denied that when accompanied by players from the New World Dexter invariably stepped up a gear. Not that Dex was complacent in the company of others, just that in Drew and Taylor they all shared the same experiences. This is quite in evidence on these four previously unreleased extended performances recorded one June night in Copenhagen. One doesn’t expect that every occasion will amount to a life-changing revelation, but as with other great interpreters, from Sinatra and Ella to Peterson and Evans, it’s the sheer joy of hearing that artist’s unique approach to familiar material: in this instance ‘Satin Doll’, ‘It’s You Or No One’, a full-tilt ‘Billie’s Bounce’ and ‘Darn That Dream’ (which he had previously recorded with Drew and Taylor three years earlier on the Blue Note album One Fight Up) definitely make this well worth seeking out.