Joe Gordon (musician) Gordon. He recorded as a bandleader for two sessions, and appeared on one recording with Thelonious Monk. He died in a house fire on November 4, 1963. With Art Blakey With Donald Byrd With Dizzy Gillespie With Barney Kessel With Harold Land With Shelly Manne With Thelonious Monk With Herb Pomeroy With Horace Silver With Jimmy Woods With Various Artists Joe Gordon (musician) Joseph Henry Gordon (May 15, 1928, in Boston, Massachusetts – November 4, 1963, in Santa Monica, California) was an American jazz trumpeter. His first professional gigs were in Boston in 1947; he played with Georgie Auld, Charlie
Hot House (composition) Hot House (composition) "Hot House" is a bebop standard, composed by American jazz musician Tadd Dameron in 1945. Its harmonic structure is identical to Cole Porter's "What Is This Thing Called Love?" (see contrafact). The tune was made famous by Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker as a quintet arrangement and become synonymous with those musicians; "Hot House" became an anthem of the Be-bop movement in American jazz. The most famous and referred to recording of the tune is by Parker and Gillespie on the May 1953 live concert recording entitled Jazz at Massey Hall, After previously recording it for Savoy