XXL: Live At The Left Bank
Dexter Gordon
with Bobby Timmons, Victor Gaskin, Percy Brice
Recorded in performance for the Left Bank Jazz Society at the Famous Ballroom, Baltimore, MD; May 4, 1969.
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