The Finest In Jazz [Digipak]

Performer: Lee Morgan (Trumpet)
Engineer: Rudy VanGelder
Producer: Alfred Lion; Francis Wolff; Michael Cuscuna (Compilation)
Distributor: EMI Music Distribution

Notes: Personnel: Lee Morgan (trumpet); Joe Henderson (tenor); Jackie McLean (alto saxophone); Hank Mobley, Wayne Shorter, Bennie Maupin (tenor saxophone); Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner, Barry Harris , Cedar Walton (piano); Larry Ridley, Paul Chambers, Reggie Workman, Bob Cranshaw (bass instrument); Billy Higgins (drums). Collecting material by the hard bop trumpeter Lee Morgan from between 1963 and 1970, this best-of features his signature soul jazz hit, 1963's "Sidewinder," as well as the similarly commercial "Sweet Honey Bee" and 1970's lyrical "Ceora," the latter of which also includes some delicately nuanced soloing by the pianist Harold Mabern.

Along with Freddie Hubbard, Lee Morgan was one of the leading trumpeter/composers of the 1960s hard-bop era. His composition "The Sidewinder" is perhaps THE signature piece of the genre, and is practically the textbook definition of the "boogaloo" groove that became popular in the mid-'60s. Influenced by Clifford Brown, Morgan possessed fleet fingers and a robust tone, and his enormously influential approach utilized blues-based harmony, simple melodic motives, and funky, groove-oriented rhythms. The jazz world was robbed of an innovator when Morgan was shot dead by a jealous girlfriend in 1972.

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