Wee Dot
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{{Infobox album
| name = Wee Dot
| type = Live album
| artist = Dexter Gordon
| cover = Wee Dot.jpg
| alt =
| released = 2003
| recorded = June 10, 1965
| venue = Jazzhus Montmartre, Copenhagen, Denmark
| studio =
| genre = Jazz
| length = 50:48
| label = SteepleChase
SCCD-36031
| producer = Nils Winther
| chronology = Dexter Gordon
| prev_title = Gettin' Around
| prev_year = 1965
| next_title = Loose Walk
| next_year = 1965
}}
Wee Dot is a live album by American saxophonist Dexter Gordon recorded at the Jazzhus Montmartre in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1965 by Danmarks Radio and released on the SteepleChase label in 2003.[http://www.jazzdisco.org/dexter-gordon/catalog/#steeplechase-sccd-36031 Dexter Gordon catalog] accessed March 7, 2017[http://steeplechase.dk/wordpress/dexter-gordon-wee-dot-sccd-36031/ SteepleChase Records discography], accessed March 7, 2017[http://www.jazzlists.com/SJ_Label_Steeplechase_6000.htm Jazzlists: Steeplechase Records 6000 series discography], accessed March 7, 2017
Critical reception
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
|rev2 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings
|rev2score = {{Rating|2.5|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=584}}
}}
AllMusic critic Thom Jurek stated "Gordon introduces each tune with his gracious, hipster vernacular and trademark dry elegance. There are only four tunes on the set, but they are all extended workouts. The closer, an updated, finger-popping redo of "Second Balcony Jump" (recorded by the saxophonist during his Blue Note years) is surely the finest moment of an already excellent set".{{allMusic|first=Thom|last=Jurek|class=album|id= mw0001005360 |title=Wee Dot – Review|accessdate= March 7, 2017}}
Track listing
- "Take the "A" Train" (Billy Strayhorn) – 9:35
- Introduction – 0:33
- "My Melancholy Baby" (Ernie Burnett, George Norton) – 8:35
- Introduction – 0:33
- "What's New?" (Bob Haggart, Johnny Burke) – 11:14
- Introduction – 0:37
- "Wee Dot" (J. J. Johnson) – 14:51
- Introduction – 0:41
- "Second Balcony Jump" (Billy Eckstine, Gerald Valentine) – 1:48
Personnel
- Dexter Gordon – tenor saxophone
- Atli Bjorn – piano
- Benny Nielsen – bass
- Finn Frederiksen – drums