Lee Morgan--Search for the New Land

standup17 · #1 03-30-2005, 12:00 PM

Hello, I just dusted off an old cassette of this record, and am loving it (again).

What do you think of the record, compositions, bass work (Reggie Workman)?

I am not a jazz player, but I know what sounds good to me. It happens to be about the only jazz guitar (Grant Green) of the period that I know and really get in to.

And if I like that, do you have other recommendations? I have a few other Lee recordings (I love Tom Cat), and also some Jackie McLean ones that I really like.

Thanks for your time,
Z

Ed Fuqua · #2 03-30-2005, 12:18 PM

Check out Wayne's BLUE NOTES (JuJu etc), Hank Mobley (Soul Station, etc) also on BLUE NOTE. In fact, maybe just go through the whole BLUE NOTE catalog from the late 50s to the mid 60s.

Coupla things I been digging lately
BASRA - Pete LaRoca, Steve Kuhn, Steve Swallow (on upright) and Joe Henderson
MOTOR CITY SCENE - Donald Byrd, Pepper Adams, Al Grey, Tommy Flanagan, PC, Louis Hayes

Oh and Duke Pearson SWEET HONEY BEE - Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson, James Spaulding, Duke, Ron Carter and Mickey Roker.

Monte · #3 03-30-2005, 12:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Ed Fuqua

MOTOR CITY SCENE - Donald Byrd, Pepper Adams, Al Grey, Tommy Flanagan, PC, Louis Hayes

Ironic. Champian just gave me this last week when she was down here, and I've really been digging it. I would have never guessed it was Al Grey; never hearing him in such a bop oriented context before.

Ed Fuqua · #4 03-30-2005, 01:36 PM

That's some seriously bad PC on this.

Confucius · #5 03-30-2005, 02:16 PM

Motor City Scene must be in the air -- because I just got my hands on that one also. Haven't listened yet though.

standup17 · #6 03-30-2005, 02:33 PM

Thanks guys, so do all the players on "Motor City" hail from Detroit?

The McLean record I really like (and I only have a few) is "Here To Stay".

Z

standup17 · #7 03-30-2005, 02:34 PM

Whoops, I think that is a Freddie Hubbard record...

Z

Ed Fuqua · #8 03-30-2005, 02:36 PM

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Originally Posted by standup17

Thanks guys, so do all the players on "Motor City" hail from Detroit?Z

Hence the title.

Ed Fuqua · #9 04-04-2005, 12:37 PM

My teacher just hipped me to another record called MOTOR CITY SCENE that's
Thad Jones - trumpet
Billy Mitchell -tenor
Tommy Flanagan - piano
PC - bass
and Elvin Jones drums

4 tunes, all Thad originals. VERY profound.

Confucius · #10 04-04-2005, 02:11 PM

2 Lps but now they are on 1 Cd. Nice one.

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p...0:dev1z84a5yvn

Monte · #11 04-04-2005, 02:14 PM

By the way, Champian was playing with some of the older cats and I believe it was Jimmy Cobb who told her the track listings for Motor City Scene: Comlete recordings are wrong. If it wasn't Jimmy, it was someone who played with Thad Jones and got it from him.

Track 1 is reversed with Track 3. In other words, what they call Let's Play One is actually Like Old Times, and vice versa.

Apparently, it was released wrong the first time and never was corrected.

oliebrice · #12 04-05-2005, 04:22 AM

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Originally Posted by standup17

And if I like that, do you have other recommendations? I have a few other Lee recordings (I love Tom Cat), and also some Jackie McLean ones that I really like.

Early Coltrane stuff would be well worth checking out, Lee Morgan is on the great album Blue Train.
An obvious one, but The Sidewinder is a great Lee Morgan album.
Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers, and the Max Roach/Clifford Brown quintet as well...