Hanky Panky – Dexter Gordon
This playful romp contrasts a bouncing melodic line with a marching bass line. Lead sheets and second parts available.
- Recording: Dexter Gordon - Clubhouse
- Recorded on: May 27, 1965
- Label: Blue Note (LT 989)
- Concert Key: B-flat minor
- Style: Swing (medium)
- Trumpet - Freddie Hubbard
- Tenor Sax - Dexter Gordon
- Piano - Barry Harris
- Bass - Bob Cranshaw
- Drums - Billy Higgins
Video
- Nick Hempton (ts), Peter Bernstein (g), Kyle Kohler (org), Fukushi Tainaka (d), Smalls Jazz Club, 5/3/21
This is an AABA form composition. Our audio excerpt starts with the second A so you get to hear part of the bridge.
For another twist on this great piece, check out Tina May's lyric version, No More Hanky-Panky.
This May 27, 1965, session marked Dexter Gordon's return to the US after living abroad for many years in Europe. During the next two days, Dexter recorded the material for his album "Gettin' Around," but "Clubhouse" wasn't released until 1979 by Blue Note. It's regarded by jazz critics as a solid hard-bop album, so it's hard to believe it didn't make it out to the public for thirteen years after its recording.
Also check out Clubhouse and Jodi from this album.
Dexter Gordon
February 27, 1923 – April 25, 1990
Tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon was born in Los Angeles, CA. In his last year of high school, he received a call from alto saxophonist Marshall Royal asking him to join the Lionel Hampton big band. This led to Dexter's first recording, with the Hampton band, on December 21, 1941. In 1944, after a few weeks with the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra and working and recording with Louis Armstrong's orchestra, Dexter joined Billy Eckstine and recorded with Eckstine's legendary band of soon-to-be jazz superstars that included Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt, Gene Ammons, Leo Parker, Art Blakey, Sarah Vaughan, arranger Tadd Dameron and others, on September 5, 1944. Read more...