Vol. 2: Sextet

Performer: Lee Morgan
Producer: Alfred Lion
Distributor: EMI Music Distribution

Notes: Personnel: Lee Morgan (trumpet); Kenny Rodgers (alto saxophone); Hank Mobley (tenor saxophone); Horace Silver (piano); Paul Chambers (bass guitar); Charlie Persip (drums). Audio Remasterer: Rudy Van Gelder. Recorded in 1956, LEE MORGAN VOL. 2 was one of the trumpeter's first dates for Blue Note, and shows off plenty of the musician's chops (which were especially formidable given Morgan's tender age at the time). The hard-swinging personnel includes Horace Silver on piano, Paul Chambers on bass, Hank Mobley on tenor, Charlie Persip on drums, and Kenny Rodgers on alto, and the compositions, penned primarily by Benny Golson, are engaging, accessible post-bop of the first rank. The Rudy Van Gelder remastering on the CD reissue makes it especially sweet.

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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