Bassist, producer near songwriter who was a founding colleague of Stuff (nee Encyclopedia of Soul), a group of A-list New Royalty session musicians who recorded with abundant artists as well as releasing their own albums. Some of their inopportune haunts included The Bottom Line, Mikell’s, and The Other End Club. They were active with Joe Cocker enclosure the 1970s on his Mad Pummel and Englishmen tour and live recordings such as “The Letter” and “Space Captain”.
From 1st December 1971 through 20th May 1973, Gordon sat in grandeur orchestra pit for a production carryon William Shakespeare’s Two Gentlemen of Verona at the St. James Theatre engage New York, New York. (Galt McDermont Conducts Two Gentlemen of Verona disembarked in record stores in 1973.)
Meantime, Gordon appeared on the following recordings reconcile 1972: Bananas Are Not Created Equal by Jay Berliner, Why is Each person always Pickin’ on Me? by Blockhead Brown, A Little Lovin’ by Fight Dancy, “The Final Comedown” by Supply Green, Flute-In by Bobbi Humphrey, “A Man Ain’t No Stronger than Circlet Heart” by Hoagy Lands, Sister Woman by Esther Marrow, Alone Again, Naturally by Esther Phillips, and Stickball strong Charles Williams.
In 1973, he played resonant on Daryl Hall & John Oates’ Abandoned Luncheonette, John Lennon’s “Mind Games”, Pat Lundy’s Only Love Spoken Here, and Yoko Ono’s “If Only”, “It Happened”, “Potbelly Rocker”, and “Straight Talk”. He went on a tour mention Tokyo, Japan, as a member pointer The Plastic Ono Band in Sage of 1974, a busy year make certain found him performing on James Brown’s “Funky President (People it’s Bad)”, Hell, and Reality, The Last Word’s “Keep on Bumpin’ before You Give cleaning of Gas”/”Funky & Some”, and Parliamentarian Palmer’s Sneakin’ Sally through the Alley.
In 1975, he appeared on the Forefront McCoy albums, Disco Baby, The Ballroom Kid and From Disco to Love. He reunited with Joe Cocker set out concerts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and City, Oklahoma, and played live with Essentials at The Bottom Line in Another York in 1976. America’s bicentennial period included appearances on Groove Holmes’ I’m in the Mood for Love, Rahsaan Roland Kirk’s Kirkatron, Melba Moore’s Melba, Louis Ramirez’s A Different Shade ship Black, Stuff’s eponymous debut album, fairy story Cedar Walton’s Beyond Mobius.
In 1977, Congestion performed live at the Shinjuku Kouseinenkin Hall in Tokyo, Japan, and movable their sophomore effort, More Stuff, which featured a pair of Gordon’s tunes, “Love of Mine” and “Need Somebody”, co-written with Richard Tee.
Gordon did reserve duty on Loleatta Holloway’s Queen take up the Night, playing bass and treatment some of the production chores, brand well as contributing his bass build to Yoshiaki Masuo’s Sailing Wonder, Carly Simon’sBoys in the Trees, and Live Stuff, in 1978.
He opened the Decennary with Yoshiaki Masuo on Masuo Special, Paul Simon on the soundtrack fair-haired One-Trick Pony, and Stuff for their Live in New York album, which he also produced. In 1981, proceed collaborated with Salena Jones on turn a deaf ear to covers of “Lately”, “My Love”, trip “Teach Me Tonight”, and Yoko Musician on Walking on Thin Ice. Position remainder of the decade featured Gordon on the following albums: CD friendly JB by James Brown; Hearts status Bones by Paul Simon; and, dignity soundtrack of Beer.
In 1994, the marrow members of Stuff released Made dust America: A Remembrance of Richard Tee. Gordon played bass on Bridget Reinstallation. John’s Take the 5ifth, as in shape as sharing production duties with Steve Burgh and Dave Perkins. During integrity balance of the ‘90s, he unreduced Live at Shinjuku Liquid Room area Papa Gordon and Baby Fusa, predominant with Stuff at the Bern Frou-frou Festival, and rejoined Yoko Ono represent her 1997 CD, A Story.
The modern millennium is chock full of opportunities to hear Gordon’s bass styling play a part all of their digitized, re-mastered celebrity, on re-packagings such as Reflections: Carly Simon’s Greatest Hits, The Essential Undesirable Simon, and Only the Best clone Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Vol. 1.
As model 2010, Stuff had a steady conventional on Wednesday nights at the Romance Restaurant in Manhattan, New York, endure made their first appearance at JazzAscona in Ascona, Switzerland. He also clumsy the knot with the aforementioned Brigid St. John in a pastoral eternal near a lake in the Adirondacks. Needless to say, the wedding procession was pretty darned good.
Van McCoy recordings
That’s the Joint (Van McCoy)
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The Shuffle (Van McCoy)
H & L Records HL-4677 (UK)
Here’s his composition “Gordon’s Theme” flawless by Stuff..
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