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Tender Moments

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Mode to John; Man from Tanganyika; The High Priest; Utopia; All My Yesterdays; Lee Plus Three.

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Night Dreamer

By Wayne Shorter

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Night Dreamer; Oriental Folk Song; Virgo; Black Nile; Charcoal Blues; Armageddon; Virgo (alt. tk.)

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Those Dizzy Days

By Lee Morgan

Label: Blue Note
Released: 2004

Article: Profile

All About Jazz contributing writer C. Andrew Hovan said it best: “Those of you that are longtime jazz fans, take a few minutes and see how many jazz trumpeters you can name in the next minute. All done? I'm sure many of you remember Miles Davis, Lee Morgan, Louis Armstrong, and Buck Clayton, just to name ...

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Lee Morgan: Sonic Boom

Read "Sonic Boom" reviewed by Germein Linares

by Germein Linares
January 20, 2004

A quick inspection of the Lee Morgan discography unearths an obscure album sandwiched between 1966's The Rajah and 1967's The Procrastinator. The album, Sonic Boom, was recorded in 1967 yet remained silent in the Blue Note vaults for twelve years, resurfacing only twice, as an LP in 1979 and eleven years later as a CD. Both ...

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The Sermon!

By Jimmy Smith

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: The Sermon; ".O.S.; "Flamingo.

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Article: Album Review

Lee Morgan, Donald Byrd, Hank Mobley: The Birth Of Hard Bop

Read "The Birth Of Hard Bop" reviewed by Jim Santella

by Jim Santella
September 1, 2000

This 2-CD set, introducing the Savoy Jazz Rare Sessions series, contains the reissue of four 1956 Savoy albums: The Jazz Message Of Hank Mobley, Hard Bop, The Jazz Message Of Hank Mobley, Volume 2 and A-1: The Savoy Sessions. It includes alternate takes and previously unissued tracks that serve an important purpose. Here, “Cattin’," for example, ...

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Article: Album Review

Lee Morgan: Taru

by Jim Santella
March 1, 2000

Just look at that rhythm section. One of the best in the business. The personnel on Lee Morgan’s 1980 album make this one valuable right from its opening bars. George Benson only appears on three tracks, but Morgan’s regular sidekick Bennie Maupin was in his prime. As was Morgan and the rhythm section. John Hicks, Reggie ...

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Lee Morgan: The Sixth Sense

Read "The Sixth Sense" reviewed by Jim Santella

by Jim Santella
February 1, 2000

Lee Morgan wrote music that is both enjoyable and intriguing. Hits such as “The Sidewinder" and “Ceora" contain catchy melodies that bounce and sway. It’s the kind of music that stays popular through many generations. Five of his originals appear on this reissue of the trumpeter’s 1968 album; three previously unissued tracks from another recording session ...

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Lee Morgan: The Sixth Sense

Read "The Sixth Sense" reviewed by C. Andrew Hovan

by C. Andrew Hovan
January 1, 2000

The integrity and consistency of trumpeter Lee Morgan’s work for the Blue Note label starting in the mid-‘50s and running through to the early ‘70s was such that in some ways it must have been taken for granted at the time. Even taking into consideration the commercial pressures that had to be present following the success ...