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With Dexter Gordon and Friends
Jazz Alive New Year's Eve Special 1980 [no label, 3CD]
Live at the Keystone Korner, San Francisco, December 31, 1980. Very good NPR broadcast.

...To welcome in 1981, saxophonist Dexter Gordon and a host of jazz luminaries - including trumpeter Woody Shaw, saxophonist Sonny Stitt, guitarist Kenny Burrell and drummer Billy Higgins - were on hand to provide the evening's entertainment....

Dexter Gordon Quartet:
Dexter Gordon - tenor sax
Kirk Lightsey - piano
David Eubanks - bass
Eddie Gladden - drums

Woody Shaw - trumpet
Sonny Stitt - tenor sax
Kenny Burrell - guitar
Cedar Walton - piano
Buster Williams - bass
Billy Higgins - drums
Ernie Andrews - vocal

Disc One is up now.
Disc Two will be available for download on December 30, 2008.
Disc Three will be available for download on December 31, 2008.

Happy new year...