Go
by Dexter Gordon

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Go by Dexter Gordon
Year: 1962
Release date: 1962-12-00
Overall rank: 2,521st   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
78/100 (from 141 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 10 albums of 1962 (6th)
Award Top albums of of the 1960s (226th)
Award Best albums of all time (2,521st)

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Overall rank: 2,521st | 1960s rank: 226th | 1962 rank: 6th  Overall chart history
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From BestEverAlbums 06/26/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5355): By Santiago
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From 07/09/2012 15:47 | #46177 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Updating Charlie Parker's innovative alto-style to the tenor, Gordon, aided by a brilliant piano quartet, uses dissonance to great effect. Under Gordon's direction, the tenor has rarely sounded so emphatically alive as it does on 'Go'. This was the album that introduced me to the greatness of the 'Blue Note' label.
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From 12/20/2011 10:48 | #33346 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
This BS & SL, A Love Supreme, Sketches Of Spain and Out To Lunch are some of the best albums ever! And the best Jazz albums ever!

By "best ever" I mean favourite, not that they are mutually exclusive though ^_^
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From 06/25/2011 18:30 | #23515 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
I agree. One of the greatest jazz albums of all-time.
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an amazing album
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From 10/24/2020 20:20 | #259730 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
73/100

Best tracks: Cheese Cake, I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry, Second Balcony Jump
Worst track: Three o'clock in the Morning
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Best Albums of  1962
1. Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music by Ray Charles
2. Waltz For Debby by Bill Evans Trio
3. Howlin' Wolf by Howlin' Wolf
4. Bob Dylan by Bob Dylan
5. Green Onions by Booker T. & The M.G.'s
6. Go by Dexter Gordon
7. Françoise Hardy (1962) by Françoise Hardy
8. Tijuana Moods by Charles Mingus
9. The Bridge by Sonny Rollins
10. Jazz Samba by Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd