LEE MORGAN The Sidewinder BLUE NOTE BLP 4157 Mono 1964 w/ Joe Henderson RVG EAR
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Description
OK copy, plays well. Cover has fair amount of wear, ring wear visible, bottom half of front and somewhat on back. Top seam split has been clear-taped. Spine has wear, lettering barely visible. Vinyl looks, plays better. Has visible swoosh, Side two, cuts and and two, but doesn't seem to be audible. Name written in back, top right, "M. Nicolet." Has original Blue Note inner sleeve. Graded conservatively.
Lee Morgan ?– The Sidewinder
Label: Blue Note – BLP 4157 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, MonoCountry: US Released: 1963 Genre: Jazz Style: Hard Bop
Tracklist?
A1 The Sidewinder A2 Totem Pole B1 Gary's Notebook B2 Boy, What A Night B3 Hocus-PocusCredits?
- Bass – Bob Cranshaw
- Cover [Design] – Reid Miles
- Drums – Billy Higgins
- Liner Notes – Leonard Feather
- Photography By [Cover Photograph] – Francis Wolff
- Piano – Barry Harris (2)
- Producer – Alfred Lion
- Recorded By – Rudy Van Gelder
- Tenor Saxophone – Joe Henderson
- Trumpet – Lee Morgan
The Sidewinder is a 1964 album by jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan, recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood, New Jersey. It was released on Blue Note label as BLP 4157 and BST 84157. The title track was one of the defining recordings of the soul jazz genre, becoming a jazz standard. An edited version was released as a single. The album was to become a huge seller, and highly influential - many subsequent Lee Morgan albums, and other Blue Note discs, would duplicate (or approximate) this album's format, by following a long, funky opening blues with a handful of conventional hard bop tunes. Record producer Michael Cuscuna recalls the unexpected success: "the company issued only 4,000 copies upon release. Needless to say, they ran out of stock in three or four days. And 'The Sidewinder' became a runaway smash making the pop 100 charts." Said piece would be even used as the music of a Chrysler TV ad as well as a theme for television shows.[1][2] It was also used by Noir Désir, in the song "Lolita Nie En Bloc" (from the album One Trip, One Noise).
The original album's five tracks, all written by Morgan but the Cole Porter-like "Hocus Pocus", are heavily blues-based, and feature tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson, then 26, whom Morgan (then 25) claimed at the time to be mentoring. Also present are the noted jazz drummer Billy Higgins, and double bassist Bob Cranshaw, who would soon switch toelectric bass and begin a decades-long association with Sonny Rollins.
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