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Sax Gordon with the Matt Stubbs Band - Theodores, MA - Jan '09 - video by Sodafixer
Sax Gordon (aka Gordon Beadle) is one of the most in-demand sax players in today's "Blues" scene, both in studios and in clubs and concert halls worldwide. He's been a featured soloist on both the tours and recordings of great artists like Jimmy Witherspoon, Matt "Guitar" Murphy, Roomful of Blues, Jay McShann, Duke Robillard, and Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson, as well as a solo artist, releasing 4 CDs of rockin' R&B sax and touring worldwide.
He's played on over 100 CDs, LPs and 45s, recording with many of the legendary performers of classic R&B and Blues such as Pinetop Perkins, Rosco Gordon, Jimmy McGriff, Champion Jack Dupree, Billy Boy Arnold, Charles Brown, Jimmy McCracklin, and Jimmy "T99" Nelson, as well as many of the best contempoary artists on the scene - such as Kim Wilson, Jerry Portnoy, Otis Grand, and Bryan Lee.
Gordon has also been called upon to perform live with many of the top artists of Blues, Soul, and Jazz, including Solomon Burke, Little Milton, Johnny Copeland, Herb Ellis, Keely Smith, Ben E. King, Martha Reeves, Reuben Wilson, Bernard Purdie, Junior Wells, James Cotton, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, John Hammond, Howard Tate, Hubert Sumlin, Mighty Sam McClain, Charlie Musselwhite, Sam Moore (of Sam & Dave), Johnny Johnson, Sherman Robertson, Joe Louis Walker, and the Fabulous Thunderbirds.
Gordon has performed in Europe, Australia, South America, Africa, Central America, Scandinavia, the Caribbean, all over North America, and toured in opening bands for such notable acts as the Rolling Stones, BB King and the Neville Brothers. He has been nominated 5 times for a W.C Handy/Blues award in the instrumentalist-horns catagory as well as being a 4-time winner of the Trophees France Blues for Instrumentiste International -Divers (miscellaneous instrument!) He continues to tour and record regularly, check out www.saxgordon.com for details.
Hey Gordon Beautiful photo! Hope your Euro-Touro summer is going great! I'm not on Myspace as much anymore...you should come play on Facebook...it's the "new" thing...well actually TWITTER is but I refuse to "tweet" :)))))
Hi I wanted to thank you again for coming out and playing all night. I knew you would keep us entertained! Hope you are having a good time...see you when you get home. AG
Thanks sooooo much for playing for us on sunday ...everyone loved you and the band and im sure dad (and mom) were bustin a move on the big ole dance floor in the sky!!!
Hi there! It was great to see you again though it was too short... Didn't hear/see that much, but whát I've seen was great! Thanks again for your superb music! Have a good tour in Europe and hope to see you again some day!
Hearing DD Rider with you and Chris Stovall Brown reminded me of the first time I heard live music in the Boston area; in 1988 at the 1369 Sunday Blues jam with you two, Tuffy and Silas, it was great- first time I ever walked into a bar and had that feeling "I'm Home".....hope to catch you at a gig soon, always a pleasure to hear you, Grant Kelly