Daddy Plays the Horn

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The Billboard review stated that the album was "not too original, but it swings" and mentioned that Gordon played "some top-flight, Lester Young-inspired tenor here, with a more robust sound than that of the master or most of his other disciples"."[https://books.google.com/books?id=hQoEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA30 Review: Daddy Plays the Horn]".Billboard: November 24, 1956. The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded it three out of four stars, saying "Daddy would be worth the purchase for 'Confirmation' and 'Autumn in New York'... Drew and Vinnegar play exceptionally well, and the CD transfer is generally good."Richard Cook and Brian Morton, The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, LP & Cassette (Penguin, 1992), p. 432.

1. "Daddy Plays the Horn" (Gordon) (9:11)
2. "Confirmation" (Charlie Parker) (7:50)
3. "Darn That Dream" (Jimmy Van Heusen & Eddie DeLange) (4:21)
4. "Number Four" (Gordon) (4:51)
5. "Autumn in New York" (Vernon Duke) (6:30)
6. "You Can Depend on Me" (Charles Carpenter, Louis Dunlap, & Earl Hines) (8:59)

• Dexter Gordon – tenor saxophone
• Kenny Drew – piano
• Leroy Vinnegar – bass
• Lawrence Marable – drums

The album is mentioned several times in the novels The Talisman and Black House by Stephen King and Peter Straub.{{citation needed|date=December 2021}}

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