EDITORIAL REVIEWS
The lengthy, swinging tenor and rhythm formula that Dexter Gordon perfected coined him a major force in the emergence of modern tenor saxophone styles. The logical improvisations Gordon uses on Daddy Plays The Horn are no exception to this formula.

REVIEW
Gordon plays assertively, as does pianist Kenny Drew, who displays a comfortable mastery of the bebop idiom. The leader himself is at his most top-of-the beat boppish on the up-tempo 'You Can Depend on Me,' even throwing in some of parker's pet phrases, while he lays back a bit and evokes Young more on the title tune blues. --Cadence Magazine