AKA Dexter Keith Gordon

Born: 27-Feb-1923
Birthplace: Los Angeles, CA
Died: 25-Apr-1990
Location of death: Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
Cause of death: Kidney failure

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: Black
Occupation: Jazz Musician

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Influential bop saxophonist

Father: Frank Alexander Gordon (dentist)
Mother: Gwendolyn

    Lionel Hampton Saxophonist 1940-43
    Fletcher Henderson Saxophonist 1944
    Louis Armstrong Saxophonist 1944
    Billy Eckstine Saxophonist 1944-45
    Dexter Gordon
    Grammy Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist, for The Other Side Of Round Midnight (1987)
    Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame 1988
    French Ancestry Maternal
    Risk Factors: Heroin

    FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
    Awakenings (20-Dec-1990)
    'Round Midnight (12-Sep-1986)

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