Storyville's trawl through the Dexter Gordon tape archives continues with this latest volume, taken from two Danish performances, taped a week apart. The first, in excellent sound, is the soundtrack to a TV show from Copenhagen's famed Monmartre club; the second, in slightly less pristine quality but listenable nonetheless, comes from a radio broadcast which comprised part of a series of regular airshot performances by the saxophonist. Combined, their contents might be termed ‘typical’ Gordon of the era; that is to say they are equally as representative of his work in his peak years as anything heard on his contemporaneous Blue Note releases. Indeed, some of the repertoire – ‘Cheesecake’, ‘Mahna De Carnaval’ and ‘I Want More’ – is straight out of his studio songbook. That said, Gordon was always a player best enjoyed live and here he's in top form, piling idea upon idea across programmes in which the mood is generally upbeat rather than sombre. There is a nice ballad though, in Errol Garner's ‘Misty’, into which the tenorist knowingly weaves a quote from ‘Blue and Sentimental’. As expected, the trio of Montoliu, Ørsted Pederson and Riel are right there throughout, reading their leader perhaps even better than many of his US-based colleagues might have done. Not ‘essential’ Dexter then, but a very likeable sidebar to his better-known albums. He even sings too, although that's an experience I'll leave the listener to comprehend in their own terms.