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Joe Gordon
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American baseball player and coach (1915–1978)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Spirit Bears
- If Jesus Were Coming to Spend the Day
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- 1,963
- Total plays
- 11,109
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jazztrumpetjazz trumpetHard Bop
Joseph Henry "Joe" Gordon (May 15, 1928, Boston, Massachusetts - November 4, 1963, Santa Monica, California) was an American jazz trumpeter. His first professional gigs were in Boston in 1947; he played with Georgie Auld, Charlie Mariano, Lionel Hampton, Charlie Parker (1953-55 intermittently), Art Blakey (1954), and Don Redman. In 1956 he toured the Middle East with Dizzy Gillespie's big band; he was a soloist on "A Night in Tunisia". Following this he played with Horace Silver. <a href="https
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- Sport
- Baseball
- Nationality
- United States
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Gordon
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Los Angeles
- Place of death
- Sacramento
- Occupation
- baseball player
- Sport
- baseball
- Member of team
- New York Yankees
- Position played
- second baseman
- League
- Major League Baseball
- Country for sport
- United States
- Image
- Joe Gordon bowman.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1915-02-18
- date of death
- 1978-04-14
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- Joe Gordon
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