Lee Morgan

Art Blakey’s ‘A Night in Tunisia’ is an album recorded on August 7 and 14, 1960 with the Jazz Messengers featuring Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter, Bobby Timmons and Jymie Merritt in 1960 and released the same year by Blue Note. Track listing : . 1.A Night in Tunisia (Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Paparelli) – 11:11 . […]

Lee Morgan’s ‘Live at the Lighthouse’ is a live album recorded on July 10, 11 & 12 1970 with Bennie Maupin, Harold Mabern, Jymie Merritt and Mickey Roker and released in 1971 by Blue Note. Track Listing : 1.Absolutions (Jymie Merritt) – 19:40 . 2.The Beehive (Harold Mabern) – 16:23 . 3.Neophilia (Bennie Maupin) – […]

‘Dizzy Gillespie at Newport’ is a live album recorded with a big band on July 6, 1957 and released the same year by Verve. Track Listing : 1.Dizzy’S Blues (Ahmad Kharab Salim) – 11:51 . 2.School Days (Will D. Cobb, Gus Edwards) – 05:47 . 3.Doodlin’ (Horace Silver) – 07:56 . 4.Manteca (Gil Fuller, Dizzy […]

Lee Morgan’s ‘The Gigolo’ is an album recorded on June 25 & July 1, 1965 with a quintet featuring Wayne Shorter, Harold Mabern, Bob Cranshaw and Billy Higgins and released in 1966 by Blue Note. Track Listing : 1.Yes I Can, No You Can’T (Lee Morgan) – 07:26 . 2.Trapped (Lee Morgan) – 05:59 . […]

‘The Eternal Triangle’ by Freddie Hubbard & Woody Shaw is an album recorded on June 11, 1987 with Ray Drummond, Carl Allen, Mulgrew Miller and Kenny Garrett and released the same year by Blue Note. Track Listing : 1.Down Under (Freddie Hubbard) – 07:35 . 2.The Eternal Triangle (Sonny Stitt) – 07:49 . 3.The Moontrane […]

Wayne Shorter’s ‘Night Dreamer’ is his fourth album recorded on April 29, 1964, with a quintet including Lee Morgan, McCoy Tyner, Reggie Workman and Elvin Jones and released the same year by Blue Note. Track Listing : 1.Night Dreamer (Wayne Shorter) – 07:18 . 2.Oriental Folk Song (Wayne Shorter) – 06:54 . 3.Virgo (Wayne Shorter) […]

‘The Young Lions’ is the first and last album (recorded on April 25, 1960) by a supergroup featuring Wayne Shorter, Frank Strozier, Lee Morgan, Bobby Timmons, Bob Cranshaw, Albert Heath and Louis Hayes and released in 1960 by Vee-Jay. Track Listing : 1.Seeds Of Sin (Wayne Shorter) – 05:44 . 2.Scourn’ (Wayne Shorter) – 05:58 […]

Lee Morgan’s ‘Delightfulee Morgan’ is an album, recorded on April 8 & May 27, 1966, with Joe Henderson, McCoy Tyner, Bob Cranshaw and Billy Higgins plus a big band and released in 1967 by Blue Note. Track Listing : 1.Ca-Lee-So (Lee Morgan) – 05:34 . 2.Zambia (Lee Morgan) – 06:33 . 3.Yesterday (John Lennon, Paul […]

Dizzy Gillespie’s ‘Birks’ Works’ is an album recorded on April 7 & 8, 1957 at a New York City Studio.and released the same year by Verve. Track Listing : 1.Jordu (Duke Jordan) – 04:13 . 2.Birks’ Works (Dizzy Gillespie) – 04:56 . 3.Umbrella Man (Vincent Rose, Larry Stock, James Cavanaugh) – 03:02 . 4.Autumn Leaves […]

Art Blakey’s ‘The Big Beat’ is an album recorded on March 6, 1960, with the Jazz Messengers featuring Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter, Bobby Timmons and Jymie Merritt and released the same year by Blue Note. Track Listing : 1.Enlightenment (Hobart Dotson, Sun Ra) – 05:02 . 2.Saturn (Sun Ra) – 03:37 . 3.Velvet (Sun Ra) […]

This day (February 19, 1972), in New York, died Edward Lee Morgan, an American hard bop trumpeter.

Lee Morgan’s ‘Search for the New Land’ is an album recorded on February 15, 1964 with Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Grant Green,. Reggie Workman & Billy Higgins and released in 1966 by Blue Note. Track Listing : 1.Search For The New Land (Lee Morgan) – 15:45 . 2.The Joker (Lee Morgan) – 05:04 . 3.Mr. […]

From ‘Body And Soul’ to ‘Truth And Lies’ , we have mixed 15 tunes around the theme of ‘Oppositions‘. It has Chick Corea, Morgana King, Lee Morgan & Wayne Shorter, Peruchin and many more.

Joe Henderson’s ‘Mode for Joe’ is his fifth studio album recorded on January 27, 1966 with Lee Morgan, Curtis Fuller, Bobby Hutcherson & more and released the same year by Blue Note. Track Listing : 1.A Shade Of Jade (Joe Henderson) – 07:08 . 2.Mode For Joe (Cedar Walton) – 08:00 . 3.Black (Cedar Walton) […]

Lee Morgan’s ‘The Sidewinder’ is an album recorded on December 21, 1963 and released in 1964 by Blue Note. Track Listing : 1.The Sidewinder (Lee Morgan) – 10:25 . 2.Totem Pole (Lee Morgan) – 10:11 . 3.Gary’S Notebook (Lee Morgan) – 06:03 . 4.Boy, What A Night (Lee Morgan) – 07:30 . 5.Hocus Pocus (Lee […]

November 15, 1959 – Art Blakey and his Jazz Messengers – that is (newcomer) Wayne Shorter (ts), Lee Morgan (tpt), Walter Davis, Jr. (p) and Jymie Merrit (b) – perform at Theatre des Champs Elysees in Paris, France

Art Blakey’s ‘Moanin” is an album he recorded on October 30, 1958 with the Jazz Messengers and released in January 1959 by Blue Note. Track Listing : 1.Moanin’ (Bobby Timmons) – 09:35 . 2.Are You Real (Benny Golson) – 04:50 . 3.Along Came Betty (Benny Golson) – 06:12 . 4.The Drum Thunder (Miniature) Suite (Benny […]

On October 9, 1989, two days before his 70th birthday, Art Blakey took hisl Jazz Messengers to the Leverkusen Jazz festival in Germany. The concert turned out to be a special event when ex Messengers joined the party. From the Fifties / Sixties line-ups : Benny Golson, Wayne Shorter, Freddie Hubbard, Curtis Fuller, Jackie McLean. […]

Lee Morgan’s ‘Cornbread’ is an album recorded on September 18, 1965 with Herbie Hancock, Billy Higgins, Jackie McLean, Hank Mobley and Larry Ridley. Track Listing : 1.Cornbread (Lee Morgan) – 09:03 . 2.Our Man Higgins (Lee Morgan) – 08:54 . 3.Ceora (Lee Morgan) – 06:23 . 4.Ill Wind (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 07:59 . […]

John Coltrane’s ‘Blue Train’ is his second studio album recorded on September 15, 1957 by Blue Note Records. Track Listing : 1.Blue Train (John Coltrane) – 10:43 . 2.Moment’S Notice (John Coltrane) – 09:10 . 4.Locomotion (John Coltrane) – 07:14 . 5.I’M Old Fashioned (Johnny Mercer, Jerome Kern) – 07:58 . 6.Lazy Bird (John Coltrane) […]