When Dexter Gordon moved to Europe alone in 1962, he hoped his then wife, Jodi, and his daughters would join him. But once there, he created a new life in Europe and the couple divorced mid-decade, writes Maxine Gordon, the tenor saxophonist's eventual road manager and wife, in her moving and smartly researched memoir, Sophisticated Giant. [Photo of Dex…
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