[1] Her first recordings, in 1953, were with them and Hank Jones (piano), Charles Mingus (bass), and Max Roach (drums).
[2] The Gordons also appeared on recordings led by Lionel Hampton in 1956, and on the album Dizzy Gillespie and Stuff Smith in 1957.
[1] This included well-known jazz musicians – Makanda Ken McIntyre (alto sax, flute), Wally Richardson (guitar), Jaki Byard (piano), George Duvivier (bass), and Ed Shaughnessy (drums).
[1] The Gordons recorded together again the following year, this time on Mary Lou Williams' Black Christ of the Andes,[2] but the group was not commercially successful and broke up, with Honi Gordon pursuing a solo career.
[3] The AllMusic biographer observed that Gordon "had an appealing style that was influenced by Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, and Billie Holiday, as well as Annie Ross.