| Dexter Gordon  AKA Dexter Keith Gordon
Born: 27-Feb-1923
Birthplace: Los Angeles, CA
Died: 25-Apr-1990
Location of death: Philadelphia, PA [1]
Cause of death: Kidney failure
Remains: Cremated
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: Black
Occupation: Jazz Musician Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Influential bop saxophonist
[1] Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA.
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 1987 for The Other Side of Round Midnight (jazz solo)
Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame 1988
French Ancestry Maternal
Risk Factors: Heroin, Cancer
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind (Jan-2018) · Himself
Awakenings (20-Dec-1990) · Rolando
'Round Midnight (12-Sep-1986)
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