A Swingin' Affair

Infobox Album
Name = A Swingin' Affair
Type = album
Artist = Dexter Gordon


Released = 1962
Recorded = 29 August 1962
Genre = Jazz
Length = 38:07
Label = Blue Note
Producer =
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:kt1ibks9hakm link]
Last album = "Go!"
(1962)
This album = "A Swingin' Affair
(1962)
Next album = "Our Man in Paris"
(1963)

"A Swingin' Affair" is a 1962 jazz album by saxophonist Dexter Gordon, recorded two days after his best-known album "Go!", and with the same line-up.

Track listing

#"Soy Califa" (Dexter Gordon) –6:24
#"Don't Explain" (Arthur Herzog Jr., Billie Holiday) –6:03
#"You Stepped Out of a Dream" (Nacio Herb Brown, Gus Kahn) –6:30
#"The Backbone" (Butch Warren) –6:45
#"Until the Real Thing Comes Along" (Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin, L.E. Freeman, Mann Holiner, Alberta Nichols) –6:45
#"McSplivens" (Gordon) –5:40

Personnel

*Dexter Gordon — tenor saxophone
*Sonny Clark —piano
*Butch Warren —bass
*Billy Higgins —drums