Gettin' Around (studio album) by Dexter Gordon

Gettin' Around by Dexter Gordon
Year: 1966
Overall rank: 58,520th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
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76/100 (from 16 votes)
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Award Top albums of 1966 (331st)
Award Top albums of the 1960s (3,325th)
Award Best albums of all time (58,520th)
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Dexter Gordon bestography

Gettin' Around is ranked 12th best out of 27 albums by Dexter Gordon on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Dexter Gordon is Go which is ranked number 2384 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 670.

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76/100 (from 16 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 7% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.6/100, a mean average of 77.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 10.9.

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From 12/31/2022 13:53
Not a very ambitious album, made for bigger jazz audiences this time. A very easy album to digest even for a newcomer to this form of music. A fine combo, I love the vibraphone, as always. A recommended addition to every collection.
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I absolutely love the tune Manha De Carnaval and this version of it is perfection, just beautiful. After that, I feel side 1 would have been MUCH better sequenced if tracks 2 and 3 were in reverse order, keeping the energy up and then dropping it down for the contemplative ballad at the end of the side. The way they did it, I think the energy drops too soon, so that it slumps and then suddenly zips back up for track 3. Sequencing makes a difference...oh well. The late Barry Harris plays piano on this, he became very famous as an educator and theorist, with a system based on the "Sixth Diminished Scale" which is all over YouTube, and way over my head. His playing here seems perfectly straightforward, tuneful and right in the smoky late-night vibe, part of why this is an album that can grow on you with repeated play.
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