Lee Morgan

Artist:  Lee Morgan
Birth Name:  Edward Lee Morgan
Born:  July 10, 1938.  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Died:  February 19, 1972 (Aged 33).  New York City, New York, USA
Genre:  Jazz, Bebop, Hard Bop, Modal Jazz, Soul Jazz, Jazz Instrument, Progressive Jazz, Trumpet Jazz
Occupation:  Trumpeter, Composer
Instruments:  Trumpet, Flugelhorn

Lee Morgan was an American Hard Bop Trumpeter.  His idol and influenced Clifford Brown.  He played with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, Dizzy Gillespie.  In 1957, he performed as a sideman on John Coltrane's Classic Blue Train as well as with Jimmy Smith.

Title:  The Sidewinder (RVG Edition) (1999)
Genre:  Jazz, Bebop, Hard Bop, Modal Jazz, Soul Jazz, Jazz Instrument, Progressive Jazz, Trumpet Jazz
Label:  Blue Note Records
Rating:  *****

Tracks:

 1.  The Sidewinder  (10:25)
 2.  Totem Pole  (10:15)
 3.  Gar's Notebook  (6:10)
 4.  Boy, What A Night  (7:35)
 5.  Hocus-Pocus  (6:26)

Bonus Track:  On CD Reissue:

 6.  Totem Pole (Alternate Take)  (10:00)

Format:   LP

Tracks:

Side 1:

 1.  The Sidewinder  (10:25)
 2.  Totem Pole  (10:15)

Side 2:

 1.  Gar's Notebook  (6:10)
 2.  Boy, What A Night  (7:35)
 3.  Hocus-Pocus  (6:26)

Personnel:

Lee Morgan:  Trumpet
Joe Henderson:  Tenor Saxophone
Barry Harris:  Piano
Bob Cranshaw:  Double Bass
Billy Higgins:  Drums

The Sidewinder is a 1964 album by Lee Morgan, original released on July 1964, by Blue Note Records, and remastered and reissued on June 14, 1999 by Blue Note Records, featuring Joe Henderson.  The albu had reached No. 25 on the Billboard Chart.