Vinyl-only jazz label Gearbox Records are to release an LP by the great tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon.

Recorded in Denmark Soy Califa: Live from Magleaas Højskole 1967 is to be released, the London label indicates, at the end of March. The title track ‘Soy Califa’ featured in a separate version with a different quartet five years earlier on the 1962 Blue Note album A Swingin’ Affair, and here Gordon (27 February 1923-25 April 1990) on this little known session is captured instead with pianist Kenny Drew, bassist Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, and drummer Albert ‘Tootie’ Heath, the only surviving member. This same quartet had a little earlier in the summer of 1967 also recorded elsewhere in Denmark at the Jazzhus Montmartre in Copenhagen captured on Black Lion albums that include The Montmartre Collection, Vols 1 & 2.

On Soy Califa... besides the latinate title track where Long Tall Dexter intones the words ‘Soy Califa’ at the beginning, the release features Johnny Mandel's ‘The Shadow Of Your Smile’ a song that featured a few years earlier in the film The Sandpiper, and a 12 minute-plus cut called ‘The Blues Up And Down’. None of these tracks have been commercially released on vinyl or CD, according to Gearbox, but appeared on a DVD of the concert which is long deleted, the label says.

The cover of Soy Califa... above

updated with new artwork 14/2/13