Go (Dexter Gordon album)
{{Infobox album
| name = Go!
| type = studio
| artist = Dexter Gordon
| cover = Go album cover.jpg
| alt =
| released = Third week of December 1962{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KRgEAAAAMBAJ&q=Dexter+gordon+4112&pg=PA33 |magazine=Billboard |title=Album Cover of the Week |date=15 December 1962 |publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc. |access-date=17 January 2023 |page=33 |via=Google Books}}
| recorded = August 27, 1962
| venue =
| studio = Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs
| genre = hard bop
| length = 37:44
| label = Blue Note
{{small|BLP 4112}}
| producer = Alfred Lion
| prev_title = Landslide
| prev_year = 1961-62
| next_title = A Swingin' Affair
| next_year = 1962
}}
Go! is a studio album by jazz musician Dexter Gordon featuring Sonny Clark, Butch Warren and Billy Higgins, recorded on August 27, 1962 and released in the same year on Blue Note. According to the liner notes by Ira Gitler, this session was "not recorded in a nightclub performance but, in its informal symmetry, it matches the relaxed atmosphere that the best of those made in that manner engender. Everyone was really together, in all the most positive meanings of that word." It was recorded by Rudy Van Gelder at the Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs.
Critical reception and legacy
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = Down Beat
| rev1Score = {{Rating|5|5}}Down Beat: February 14, 1963 Vol. 30, No. 4
|rev2 = AllMusic
|rev2score = {{Rating|5|5}}[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r139661|pure_url=yes}} AllMusic review]
|rev3 = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide
| rev3Score = {{rating|5|5}}{{Cite book
|editor-last=Swenson
|editor-first=J.
| year = 1985
| title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide
| publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone
| location = USA
| isbn = 0-394-72643-X
| pages = 87
}}
|rev4 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings
|rev4score = {{Rating|3|4}}{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=581}}
}}
Since its release, Go! has received very positive reviews from critics, with uDiscover Music—published by Universal Music Group—declaring that it is "unanimously hailed by jazz critics as one of his greatest ever albums".{{Cite web |url=https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/dexter-gordon-go-blue-note-album/ |title='Go': How Dexter Gordon Raced Into The Jazz History Books |last=Waring |first=Charles |date=2022-08-27 |accessdate=2023-02-28 |publisher=Universal Music Group}} AllMusic giving it a five star rating. The album was re-released in March 1999 as part of Blue Note's RVG Series, produced by Michael Cuscuna. In 2019, Go! was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".{{cite news |last=Andrews |first=Travis M. |date=March 20, 2019 |title=Jay-Z, a speech by Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and 'Schoolhouse Rock!' among recordings deemed classics by Library of Congress |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/jay-z-a-speech-by-sen-robert-f-kennedy-and-schoolhouse-rock-among-recordings-deemed-classics-by-library-of-congress/2019/03/19/f7eb08ea-4a58-11e9-9663-00ac73f49662_story.html?|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=March 25, 2019}}[https://web.archive.org/web/20190816154314/https://news.yahoo.com/us-library-congress-adds-recordings-cyndi-lauper-jay-115938552.html US Library of Congress adds recordings by Cyndi Lauper, Jay-Z and others-YAHOO! News]
Track listing
{{Track listing
| title1 = Cheese Cake
| writer1 = Dexter Gordon
| length1 = 6:33
| title2 = I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry
| writer2 = Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn
| length2 = 5:23
| title3 = Second Balcony Jump
| writer3 = Billy Eckstine, Gerald Valentine
| length3 = 7:05
| title4 = Love for Sale
| writer4 = Cole Porter
| length4 = 7:40
| title5 = Where Are You?
| writer5 = Jimmy McHugh, Harold Adamson
| length5 = 5:21
| title6 = Three O'Clock in the Morning
| writer6 = Julián Robledo, Dorothy Terriss
| length6 = 5:42
}}
Personnel
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Category:Blue Note Records albums
Category:Albums produced by Alfred Lion
Category:Albums recorded at Van Gelder Studio