Singer: Dexter Gordon
Title: Sophisticated Giant
Label: Columbia ‎– JC 34989
Type: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Date of released: 1977
Category: Jazz
Style: Post Bop
Size MP3 zip: 1636 mb
Size FLAC zip: 1506 mb
Rating: 4.9✭
Format: MP3 MOD WMA MP2 AC3 AUD AU ADX FLAC

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A1	Laura Composed By – D. Raksin*	7:38
A2	The Moontrane Composed By – W. Shaw, Jr.*	6:35
A3	Red Top Composed By – B. Kynard*, L. Hampton*Soloist [Trumpet] – Benny Bailey	9:55
B1	Fried Bananas Composed By – D. Gordon*	7:52
B2	You're Blasé Composed By – B. Sievier*, O. Hamilton*	9:50
B3	How Insensitive Composed By – A. C. Jobim*, N. Gimbel*, V. de Moraes*	4:55

Companies, etc.

• Recorded At – Sound Ideas Studios

Credits

• Alto Saxophone, Flute, Flute [Piccolo] – Frank Wess
• Arranged By – Slide Hampton
• Artwork [Original Cover Painting] – Thomas B. Allen
• Bass – Rufus Reid
• Cover [Design] – John Berg
• Drums – Victor Lewis
• Engineer – William Wittman
• Engineer [Assistant] – Tommy Roberts
• Executive-Producer – Maxine Gregg
• Liner Notes – Ira Gitler
• Mastered By – Debra Parkinson
• Photography By [Liner] – Art Maillet
• Piano – George Cables
• Producer – Michael Cuscuna
• Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone – Dexter Gordon
• Trombone – Slide Hampton
• Trombone [Lead] – Wayne Andre
• Trumpet [Lead], Flugelhorn – Benny Bailey
• Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Soloist [Trumpet] – Woody Shaw
• Tuba, Baritone Saxophone – Howard Johnson
• Vibraphone [Vibes] – Bobby Hutcherson

Notes

Recorded at Sound Ideas, New York City on June 21 & 22, 1977.

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
CBS 450316 1	Dexter Gordon	Sophisticated Giant ‎(LP, Album, RE)	CBS	CBS 450316 1	Spain	1987
34989, MOVLP512	Dexter Gordon	Sophisticated Giant ‎(LP, Album, RE, RM, 180)	Columbia, Music On Vinyl	34989, MOVLP512	Europe	2012
CBS 450316 1	Dexter Gordon	Sophisticated Giant ‎(LP, Album, RE)	CBS	CBS 450316 1	Europe	1986
225001	Dexter Gordon	Sophisticated Giant ‎(LP, Album)	Discos CBS	225001	Brazil	1978
JC 34989	Dexter Gordon	Sophisticated Giant ‎(Cass, Album)	Columbia	JC 34989	US	1977

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