Blues à la Suisse

Blues à la Suisse
Live album by Dexter Gordon
Released	1974
Recorded	July 7, 1973
Venue	Montreux Jazz Festival, Switzerland
Genre	Jazz
Label	Prestige P-10079
Producer	Orrin Keepnews
Dexter Gordon chronology
All Souls' (1972) Blues à la Suisse (1974) The Meeting (1973)

Blues à la Suisse is a live album by American saxophonist Dexter Gordon recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland in 1973 and released on the Prestige label.^[1][2] The track "Blues à la Suisse" is credited to Gordon on the LP, but the composition is actually John Coltrane's "Some Other Blues" from Coltrane's 1960 Atlantic LP Coltrane Jazz.^[3]

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[4]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[5]

AllMusic critic Scott Yanow stated "Tenor-great Dexter Gordon sounds fine on these four extended performances ... The rhythm section (Hampton Hawes on electric piano, electric bassist Bob Cranshaw and drummer Kenny Clarke) is not as attuned to Gordon's music as one would hope (the electronics do not really blend in well), making this a somewhat average (but still fairly enjoyable) bop session".^[4]

Track listing

1. "Gingerbread Boy" (Jimmy Heath) – 12:43
2. "Blues à la Suisse" (Dexter Gordon) – 10:26
3. "Some Other Spring" (Arthur Herzog, Jr., Irene Kitchings) – 6:02
4. "Secret Love" (Sammy Fain, Paul Francis Webster) – 14:31

Personnel

• Dexter Gordon – tenor saxophone
• Hampton Hawes – piano, electric piano
• Bob Cranshaw – electric bass
• Kenny Clarke – drums

References

1. Dexter Gordon catalog accessed March 7, 2017
2. Prestige Records discography, accessed March 7, 2017
3. Dexter Gordon: Dexter Gordon: The Complete Prestige Sessions accessed January 31, 2023
4. Yanow, Scott. Blues à la Suisse – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved March 7, 2017.
5. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 88. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.