Gettin' Around
by Dexter Gordon
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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 2514 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 635.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Gettin' Around track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Gettin' Around rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 6 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  RockyRaccoon | Jazz | 74/100 | - |
| 2026 | Olli | Top 100 Music Albums of 1966 | 43/100 | 3 |
| 2026 |  Fischman | Top 100 Music Albums of 1966 | 24/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | BorderFreeAndrew | Top 100 Music Albums of 1966 | 91/100 | 1 |
| 2026 | RockyRaccoon | Top 53 Music Albums of 1966 | 12/53 | 4 |
| 2025 | byuzak | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1960s | 85/100 | 3 |
| 2025 | TodFitz | Top 100 Music Albums of 1966 | 75/100 | 1 |
| 2025 | rkm | Top 33 Music Albums of 1966 | 33/33 | 0 |
| 2025 | byuzak | Top 48 Music Albums of 1965 | 13/48 | - |
| 2024 | LosWochos | Top 100 Music Albums of 1966 | 99/100 | 0 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 16 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 16 | |||
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Gettin' Around ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 07/18/2026 17:15 | PapaShiz86 | 11,695 | 79/100 |
| ! | 12/12/2025 02:34 | Olli | 7,926 | 62/100 |
| ! | 01/08/2024 20:29 | RockyRaccoon | 7,207 | 84/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 8% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.1/100, a mean average of 76.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.6.
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Jboy56 12/31/2022 13:05 in What album are you listening to right now?Gettin' Around comments
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Jboy56 12/31/2022 13:53 | #292362
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.
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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