LEE MORGAN "SEARCH FOR THE NEW LAND" MM, 2LP, 45RPM,. RVG, LE, SO, NEW/SEALED

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                                                                                       LEE MORGAN "SEARCH FOR THE NEW LAND"
2009 MUSIC MATTERS "BLUE NOTE THE DEFINITIVE 45 RPM REISSUE SERIES", 2LP, 45RPM, 180G VINYL, SOLD-OUT LIMITED EDITION OF 2,500 COPIES, CATALOG NUMBER MMBST-84169, RECORDED BY RUDY VAN GELDER, MASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL ANALOG BLUE NOTE TAPE AND PRESSED AT RTI, CAMARILLO, CA. HIGHEST QUALITY GATEFOLD COVER FEATURES ORIGINAL SESSION PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE INSIDE.
"RENOWNED IN JAZZ EVER SINCE HE EMERGED IN THE DIZZY GILLESPIE BIG BAND OF 1956, AND CROWNED EARLY ON AS THE LATE CLIFFORD BROWN'S SUCCESSOR AMONG PROMISING YOUNG TRUMPETERS, LEE MORGAN PACKED A LOT OF LIVING INTO THE NEXT 16 YEARS. A MEMBER OF ARGUABLY THE FINEST VERSIONS OF ART BLAKEY'S JAZZ MESSENGERS (PLAYING ALONGSIDE BENNY GOLSON AND WAYNE SHORTER), MORGAN RECORDED REGULARLY FOR BLUE NOTE AS BOTH A LEADER AND A SIDEMAN FOR VIRTUALLY HIS ENTIRE CAREER. HE HAD A MAJOR HIT RECORDING WITH "THE SIDEWINDER" IN 1963 AND WAS ON A COUNTLESS NUMBER OF SIGNIFICANT BLUE NOTE RECORDINGS, STRETCHING HIS HARD BOP STYLE WHILE BEING OPEN TO THE INFLUENCES OF THE AVANT-GARDE, POST BOP AND LATE 1960'S R & B."
"ONLY HIS UNTIMELY DEATH IN 1972 KEPT HIM FROM CHALLENGING FREDDIE HUBBARD AS THE TOP JAZZ TRUMPETER OF THE 1970'S. WHILE MORGAN'S BOOGALOO RECORDINGS WERE VERY  POPULAR, "SEARCH FOR THE NEW LAND" HAS ONE OF HIS FINEST HOURS. RECORDED RIGHT AFTER "THE SIDEWINDER", "SEARCH FOR THE NEW LAND" INTRODUCES FIVE OF MORGAN'S MOST CHALLENGING COMPOSITIONS, HAS HIM LEADING AN ALL-STAR SEXTET (WITH SHOTER, GRANT GREEN AND HERBIE HANCOCK) AND FEATURES HIM PLAYING STIRRING AND INTENSE SOLOS THAT RANK NOT ONLY WITH HIS GREATEST WORK BUT THE MOST CREATIVE TRUMPET SOLOS OF THE MID-1960'S."
                                                                                                   1) SEARCH FOR THE NEW LAND                                                                                                    2) THE JOKER                                                                                                    3) MR. KENYATTA                                                                                                    4) MELANCHOLEE                                                                                                    5) MORGAN THE PIRATE
                                            RECORDED ON FEBRUARY 15, 1964 AT THE VAN GELDER STUDIO, ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, NJ.