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Lee Morgan: Bess (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 07, 07

At first glance, Lee Morgan seems an odd inductee to the Harmon Hall of Fame. A hard-bop stalwart, Morgan's style der...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: HARMON-IZED TRUMPETS

"It has heretofore been a great annoyance for the neighborhood if a person commences to practice on a brass inst...

Lee Morgan: I Remember Clifford (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 10, 09

The heartbreaking death of Clifford Brown devastated the jazz community in 1956. Admired not only for his extraordina...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: 12 CLASSIC LEE MORGAN TRACKS

Nobody’s perfect, right? We’ve all heard that one. Even some of the most revered greats are missing pieces of the e...

Lee Morgan: I Remember Clifford (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music December 18, 07

Nine months after Clifford Brown's accidental death, composer Benny Golson unveiled this lovely, and loving, requiem ...

Lee Morgan: Search For The New Land (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 09, 09

Recorded not even two months later yet far from the carefree groove of his hit single “The Sidewinder,” Morgan travel...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: 12 CLASSIC LEE MORGAN TRACKS

Nobody’s perfect, right? We’ve all heard that one. Even some of the most revered greats are missing pieces of the e...

Lee Morgan: Zambia (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music April 08, 08

In a 2006 interview by Ethan Iverson, drummer Billy Hart mentions that he once asked Lee Morgan about "The Sidewinder...

Lee Morgan: Ceora (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 12, 09

While “The Sidewinder” may have been his biggest hit, “Ceora” is Lee Morgan’s most enduring contribution to the jazz ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: 12 CLASSIC LEE MORGAN TRACKS

Nobody’s perfect, right? We’ve all heard that one. Even some of the most revered greats are missing pieces of the e...

Lee Morgan: Cornbread (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music January 16, 09

Though Lee Morgan never scored another hit after 1963's "The Sidewinder," he continued to churn out some of the groov...

Lee Morgan: Whisper Not (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music March 31, 09

Volume 2: Sextet features the first studio recording of Benny Golson's "Whisper Not," which is considered by many to ...

Lee Morgan: Hocus-Pocus (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music January 12, 09

I get to see a lot of CDs reissued from the original vinyl recordings. Very often I find some horrific mistake in the...

Lee Morgan: Trapped (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music July 12, 09

When paired together in a frontline, Wayne Shorter and Lee Morgan never disappointed. Shorter’s compositions consiste...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: 12 CLASSIC LEE MORGAN TRACKS

Nobody’s perfect, right? We’ve all heard that one. Even some of the most revered greats are missing pieces of the e...

Lee Morgan: You Go to My Head (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music December 09, 07

On the heels of his previous year's hit "The Sidewinder," Lee Morgan applies 3/5ths of the same quintet and an equall...

Lee Morgan: The Sidewinder (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 23, 07

Having been a member of both Art Blakey’s and Dizzy Gillespie’s bands at age 18, the prodigious trumpeter Lee Morgan,...

John Coltrane: Blue Train (featuring Lee Morgan) (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 09, 09

Lee Morgan’s career is chock-full of essential, “Dozens”-worthy improvisations; it took weeks of eating, breathing, a...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: 12 CLASSIC LEE MORGAN TRACKS

Nobody’s perfect, right? We’ve all heard that one. Even some of the most revered greats are missing pieces of the e...

Larry Young (with Lee Morgan): Trip Merchant (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music July 12, 09

Though Lee Morgan didn’t incorporate elements of the avant-garde in his own groups until late in his career, his reso...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: 12 CLASSIC LEE MORGAN TRACKS

Nobody’s perfect, right? We’ve all heard that one. Even some of the most revered greats are missing pieces of the e...

Lee Morgan (with Bobby Timmons): Lover Man (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music March 06, 08

Prior to his official membership in the Jazz Messengers with 1958's Moanin', Lee Morgan released some of his mos...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE BEST OF THE ART BLAKEY ALUMS

There are post-Swing Era bandleaders, and then there is Art Blakey. After a brief time spent developing his craft by ...

Lee Morgan: The Sidewinder (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music July 09, 09

Morgan spent the majority of 1962 and 1963 in Philadelphia in the clutches of a heroin habit he picked up while in th...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: 12 CLASSIC LEE MORGAN TRACKS

Nobody’s perfect, right? We’ve all heard that one. Even some of the most revered greats are missing pieces of the e...

Lee Morgan: Mr. Johnson (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music July 12, 09

Though not a prolific composer, pianist Harold Mabern has written his share of outstanding tunes, and his brooding mi...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: 12 CLASSIC LEE MORGAN TRACKS

Nobody’s perfect, right? We’ve all heard that one. Even some of the most revered greats are missing pieces of the e...

Lee Morgan: Absolutions (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music July 12, 09

In early 1970 Morgan was on the wrong end of an altercation with a pipe-wielding assailant, taking a blow directly to...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: 12 CLASSIC LEE MORGAN TRACKS

Nobody’s perfect, right? We’ve all heard that one. Even some of the most revered greats are missing pieces of the e...

Joe Henderson (with Lee Morgan): Caribbean Fire Dance (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music July 12, 09

Joe Henderson added his hard-nosed tenor stylings to The Sidewinder (1963) and The Rumproller (1965) so Morgan gracio...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: 12 CLASSIC LEE MORGAN TRACKS

Nobody’s perfect, right? We’ve all heard that one. Even some of the most revered greats are missing pieces of the e...

Art Blakey: A Night In Tunisia (featuring Lee Morgan) (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 09, 09

In his review of this track as part of his Essential Art Blakey Dozens, my fellow Jazz.com compatriot Eric Novod asks...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: 12 CLASSIC LEE MORGAN TRACKS

Nobody’s perfect, right? We’ve all heard that one. Even some of the most revered greats are missing pieces of the e...

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