Mother Ship
Larry Young
Lee Morgan
Engineer: Rudy Van Gelder,
Producer: Francis Wolff
Blue Note Records (USA), 2003
1 CD
Catalogue #: 90415
EAN: 0724359041520
UPC: 724359041520
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Personnel: Larry Young (organ); Herbert Morgan (tenor saxophone); Lee Morgan (trumpet); Eddie Gladden (drums).
Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Edgewood Cliffs, New Jersey on February 7, 1969. Originally released as Blue Note (1038). Includes liner notes by Michael Cuscuna.
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Lee Morgan
Along with Freddie Hubbard, Lee Morgan was one of the leading trumpeter/composers of the 1960s hard-bop era. His composition "The Sidewinder" is perhaps THE signature piece of the genre, and is practically the textbook definition of the "boogaloo" groove that became popular in the mid-'60s. Influenced by Clifford Brown, Morgan possessed fleet fingers and a robust tone, and his enormously influential approach utilized blues-based harmony, simple melodic motives, and funky, groove-oriented rhythms. The jazz world was robbed of an innovator when Morgan was shot dead by a jealous girlfriend in 1972.
