The Tower of Power!

This article is about the 1969 Dexter Gordon album. For other topics, see Tower of Power (disambiguation).
The Tower of Power!
Studio album by
Dexter Gordon
Released1969
RecordedApril 2 & 4, 1969
New York City
GenreJazz
Length35:47
LabelPrestige
PR 7623
ProducerDon Schlitten
Dexter Gordon chronology
A Day in Copenhagen
(1969) 		The Tower of Power!
(1969) 		More Power!
(1969)

The Tower of Power! is an album by saxophonist Dexter Gordon which was recorded in 1969 and released on the Prestige label.[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[4]

Lindsay Planer of AllMusic states, "Dexter Gordon (tenor sax) returned to the United States in the spring of 1969 to create his first studio recordings in nearly a decade... Gordon selflessly provides copious space to his bandmates, a quality that certainly makes selections such as these a pleasure to revisit".[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Dexter Gordon except as indicated

  1. "Montmartre" (Dexter Gordon, Rex Stewart) – 10:54
  2. "The Rainbow People" – 8:49
  3. "Stanley the Steamer" – 8:02
  4. "Those Were the Days" (Gene Raskin) – 8:02

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Dexter Gordon discography accessed March 19, 2013
  2. ^ a b Planer, L. AllMusic Review accessed March 15, 2013
  3. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 88. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  4. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 582. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.