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Lee Morgan, five albums.

Absolutely no liner notes, albums are housed in cardboard sleeves sporting the original front cover, on the reverse there is a typed list of the tracks and notes on the remastering.

Four CDs are the 21st century RVG remasters, while Search For The New Land is the eighties Ron McMaster edition.

Of course, all liner notes are available on Discogs, both original and remaster commentaries.

Currently £12.99

https://www.amazon.co.uk/5-Original-Alb ... 379&sr=1-4

Playing Lee-Way, the very pinnacle of a Blue Note blowing session - Art Blakey, Jackie McLean, Bobby Timmons, Paul Chambers.

And Lee, like Kenny Dorham one of the underappreciated jazz trumpeters languishing in Miles's long shadow.

Pure bliss.

I love Lee Morgan - I have all these albums separately plus loads more

A nice addition would be Peckin’ Time, from 1958, with the great Hank Mobley on sax

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Hank Mobley – tenor saxophone
Lee Morgan – trumpet
Wynton Kelly – piano
Paul Chambers – bass
Charlie Persip – tubs


[usually billed as a Hank album but they are joint-leaders- essential]




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Lee Morgan, like Kenny Dorham one of the underappreciated jazz trumpeters languishing in Miles's long shadow.

Pure bliss.

Agreed. Booker Little was another great who sadly died young at an age of 23 after a long painful illness

Given time he would have been up there with the giants




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Despite the brilliance of The Köln Concert I reckon this even better

I can play all six sides one after the other - as I am doing now

Masterful - a masterpiece





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Recorded at The Jazz Workshop in San Francisco in 1961



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I love a drop of Hank me




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Sonny's playing is wonderful.

I have to say I am more impressed by the lesser known jazz pianists. Monk, Hancock, McCoy Tyner, Horace SIlver - I respect these guys.

But for sheer enjoyment it is Sonny Clark, Bill Evans, Brubeck, Bobby Timmons.

I realise this may be a fault on my part. I may not appreciate innovation on piano in jazz.

I'm listening to an outstanding Joe Henderson album, as I type, that features McCoy and his playing is astonishing and incredibly distinctive.

I can recognise his playing and style a mile off like Hendrix's guitar or Winwood's voice or Bruford's tubs.

I take Chris's point but for me McCoy and Monk take some beating - almost just for their uniqueness let alone their genius

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Piano players came/come with so many styles, one of the great joys of jazz for me has been learning to appreciate all the different ways they can play.

Take Monk, for instance - such an IMMEDIATELY recognizable style that you can just immerse yourself in it and marvel at how perfectly he can complement the music around him while always having his own sound. Another who had his style and was instantly recognizable was Horace Silver - his sound was the pure essence of hard bop and latin-flavoured jazz piano, capturing the swing of it. Or some like Art Tatum of Bud Powell, who could play the bop styles with the most insane speed and technique.

But then you have the all-around masters, the ones who could seamlessly play ANY of the styles from the late-40s on and simply kill it - Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner, Jackie Byard, Chick Corea, Andrew Hill, Cedar Walton, Joe Zawinul...

A smorgasbord!

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Tina only made four albums and this, his second, is the only one that Alfred Lion released at the time the other three saw the light of day in the 80s/90s

God knows why

Tina Brooks - tenor saxophone
Freddie Hubbard - trumpet
Duke Jordan - piano
Sam Jones - bass
Art Taylor - tubs




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Been immersed in the Sonny Rollins albums the past few days.

I went away in a caravan for my hols and was permitted five CDs. Three were Grateful Dead in honour of Phil Lesh, one was half of Pink Floyd's Echoes comp, leaving one jazz CD to play in the car and over the caravan's hi-fi.

Went with, Saxophone Colossus, which just happened to be to hand in the 'to listen again' pile.

Man, we played this album a dozen time or more on our hols.

I tried to get a copy for my companion in the record shops that we happened upon in our travels, but all they had was a compilation of his stuff which included half the album. I got it anyway - the rest of the stuff is amazing as well, going right back to his days with Miles and visiting in the classic albums The Bridge, Alfie, Way Out West for more gold

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Complete NIght At The Village Vanguard.

Man, what a player! I love Sonny, but on reflection, when I reach for an album with a sax player's name on it this is most likely to be one by Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, Art Pepper, Dexter Gordon, Hank Crawford, even Paul Desmond or Gerry Mulligan.

I respect Sonny's albums but ignore how playable and rewarding they are.

No More!

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Been immersed in the Sonny Rollins albums the past few days.

I went away in a caravan for my hols and was permitted five CDs. Three were Grateful Dead in honour of Phil Lesh, one was half of Pink Floyd's Echoes comp, leaving one jazz CD to play in the car and over the caravan's hi-fi.

Went with, Saxophone Colossus, which just happened to be to hand in the 'to listen again' pile.

Man, we played this album a dozen time or more on our hols.

I tried to get a copy for my companion in the record shops that we happened upon in our travels, but all they had was a compilation of his stuff which included half the album. I got it anyway - the rest of the stuff is amazing as well, going right back to his days with Miles and visiting in the classic albums The Bridge, Alfie, Way Out West for more gold

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Complete NIght At The Village Vanguard.

Man, what a player! I love Sonny, but on reflection, when I reach for an album with a sax player's name on it this is most likely to be one by Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, Art Pepper, Dexter Gordon, Hank Crawford, even Paul Desmond or Gerry Mulligan.

I respect Sonny's albums but ignore how playable and rewarding they are.

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Nice post Chris.

Complete Night at The Village Vanguard is a corker - a three piece on both afternoon and evening sets and interestingly with different rhythm sections.

I had a spare new/sealed copy which was part of a batch of CDs my dear friend Mr Jung was selling for me on eBay.

It was advertised for a few weeks and we kept dropping the price, eventually to £5.99 I think. Still no luck. So I told the lad to give it to the charity shop. On the day he went to remove it amazingly the album was sold!!

One can never have too much Sonny!

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A quartet of Sonny Rollins, Wynton Kelly (piano), Doug Watkins (bass), and Philly Joe Jones (tubs)




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Still top of my hit parade......

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Still top of my hit parade......

Nice

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The third album (out of only four) not released by Alf at the time

God knows why....

Philly Joe on tubs




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Sonny Rollins Work Time. A mid-50s set anchored by Max Roach. Sprightly and cheerful.

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Our Man In Jazz, also includes all live tracks from the album 3 In Jazz, itself compiled from three unrelated sessions.

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Sonny Rollins Work Time. A mid-50s set anchored by Max Roach. Sprightly and cheerful.

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Our Man In Jazz, also includes all live tracks from the album 3 In Jazz, itself compiled from three unrelated sessions.

Nice

Very nice.

I have a few albums featuring the great vibes player Gary Burton - solo and otherwise.





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The great McCoy in action.

Trane on soprano sax



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I’m very lucky to have a jazz club just a few miles up the road from me. Watermill Jazz are a group of enthusiastic amateurs who hire out the function room of a golf club and host a weekly gig, generally from the UK scene but we do get some European or American acts. I go two or three times a month.

Last night was a trio of Pete Roth on guitar, Mike Pratt on bass and Bill Bruford on drums, mostly fusion but with some collective free improv thrown in. I thought Bill had retired from music a few years ago but apparently not. They were pretty good by the way.

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I’m very lucky to have a jazz club just a few miles up the road from me. Watermill Jazz are a group of enthusiastic amateurs who hire out the function room of a golf club and host a weekly gig, generally from the UK scene but we do get some European or American acts. I go two or three times a month.

Last night was a trio of Pete Roth on guitar, Mike Pratt on bass and Bill Bruford on drums, mostly fusion but with some collective free improv thrown in. I thought Bill had retired from music a few years ago but apparently not. They were pretty good by the way.

Yes Gez, Bruford has been a member of the Peter Roth Trio since 2022




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