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Lee Morgan: City Lights
by John Barron
In an era of oversaturation in jazz characterized by an abundance of young performers who seem to favor imitation at the expense of originality, it's invigorating to hear a timeless gem like City Lights. It's hard to contemplate the fact that this music was recorded half a century ago. The precision and inventiveness of Lee Morgan ...
Lee Morgan: Tom Cat
by Samuel Chell
As a cat owner, I've learned the hard way that the outdoor variety of felines quickly exhaust their nine lives. Lee Morgan's Tom Cat must be the exception. Recorded in 1964, the session was first released in 1981 (too late, even, to count as “posthumous"), before its most recent reincarnation as an RVG remaster. Blue Note's ...
Lee Morgan: City Lights
by Samuel Chell
This album may not enjoy the same status as Charlie Chaplin's revered movie of the same title, but it's a session that evokes similar feelings. Like the beloved Tramp, Lee Morgan wins our respect with a performance of exceptional warmth and dignity, grace and beauty, sprinkled with moments of gentle humor. His playing on this session ...
Lee Morgan: The Cooker
by Samuel Chell
Although Lee Morgan had already made a handful of albums at the age of 19, The Cooker (1957) represents his throwing down the gauntlet as successor to Clifford Brown's vacated throne. It's close to being a pure bebop session, suggestive of a date like For Musicians Only (Verve, 1956), on which Gillespie, Stitt and Getz set ...
Lee Morgan: City Lights
by AAJ Italy Staff
È benvenuta la ristampa di uno tra i dischi meno conosciuti di Lee Morgan, per l’occasione spalleggiato da una fantastica front-line: George Coleman al sax tenore e Curtis Fuller al trombone. Con una ritmica tanto vigorosa quanto fluida, che vede impegnati Ray Bryant al pianoforte, Paul Chambers al contrabbasso ed Art Taylor alla batteria. Due sono ...
Music for Lovers
By Lee Morgan
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: You Go to my Head; Ill Wind; All the Way; Since I Fell For You; I'll Never Be the Same; Twilight
Mist; What Now My Love; Lover Man; I Remember Clifford.
The Gigolo
By Lee Morgan
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Yes I Can, No You Can't; Trapped; Speedball; The Gigolo; You Go To My Head; The Gigolo (alternate take).
Lee Morgan: Music for Lovers
by Norman Weinstein
Although annotator Donald Elfman deftly deflects the issue in his concise booklet essay, Lee Morgan was shot to death by his lover, certainly adding an irony to this disc's title, not to mention the additional irony that the compilation includes “Since I Fell For You." That might seem a minor marketing gaff, but there are fascinating ...
Lee Morgan: The Gigolo
by Chris May
Hard bop's baddest trumpeter, Lee Morgan, may never quite have topped his iconic '63 masterpiece, The Sidewinder, but he came pretty damn close on a couple of occasions. The Gigolo is one of them, and it's been reissued as part of the ongoing Rudy Van Gelder remaster series. The album's menacing, visceral vibe has never sounded ...
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