Dexter Gordon on playing with Fletcher Henderson

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Q: “You played with the Fletcher Henderson band – must’ve been a late edition of his band…”

A: Dexter Gordon: “Yeah, it was. This was ... it could have been in '44, I don't know, '43 or '44, because I'd left Hampton and came back to California and Fletcher came out there to do a gig. I think it was in '44 and he had a nucleus of a big band. He came out with about nine people.”

Interviewer: “Service league.”

Dexter Gordon: “So he picked up four, five people in Los Angeles and it was a club called Plantation. We worked there for about a month or so and during this time, I worked with them. But fortunately, there was some radio shots that we did.”