Lee Morgan | Sidewinder – [Blue Note Records, 1963]
Lee Morgan, Sidewinder
The Philadelphia-born trumpeter and superb bop stylist
Lee Morgan apprenticed with Dizzy Gillespie and Art Blakey before emerging as a leader in his own right in the early ’60s for Blue Note Records. Although Morgan owed a stylistic debt to both
Gillespie and
Clifford Brown, he quickly developed a voice of his own that combined half-valve effects, Latin inflections, and full, fluid melodies. While many of Morgan’s later sessions for
Blue Note would find him paired with saxophonist
Hank Mobley, The Sidewinder features then up-and-coming tenor player
Joe Henderson, plus Detroit pianist
Barry Harris, bassist
Bob Cranshaw, and drummer
Billy Higgins. Along with the title track, an unconventional 24-bar blues, the album’s compositional standout is “
Totem Pole,” a minor Latin groove featuring an outstanding solo by
Henderson.
This is the kind of relaxed blowing date, invigorated by thoughtful performances, that forms the backbone of the Blue Note catalog. —Fred Goodman/Amazon
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