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Lee Morgan - Introducing Lee Morgan With Hank Mobley Quintet (1956) Genre: Jazz

Recorded for Savoy in November, 1956 -- featuring a quintet with a very young Lee Morgan on trumpet, plus Hank Mobley on tenor, Hank Jones on piano, Doug Watkins on bass, and Art Taylor on drums. Tracks are long, and possibly a bit unstructured -- but they also have a raw quality that sets them apart from the Blue Note late 50s work of Mobley and Morgan. Titles include "Hank's Shout", "Bet", "PS I Love You", and "Nostalgia".

Amazon.com reviewer:

Morgan plays beautifully on this early occasion, maiden voyage on record or not. In fact, the recording vindicates the good judgement of those who saw him as potentially the next Diz or Clifford. And much of his no-nonsense, purely melodic approach can be credited to his supporting cast, from a rhythm section with the distinctive touch and sound of Hank Jones and Doug Watkins to the simply unmatched musicality of Hank Mobley, the champion soloist in any division (it was Leonard Feather who dubbed him the "middleweight champ" of the tenor).

I love Mobley's unforced sound, his striking melodic invention eschewing all formulae and learned patterns, his it's-all-about-the-music example in evidence on all of his fifties sessions. But I'd have to disagree that any of those exemplary qualities had been diminished whatsoever in his Blue Note sessions from the early sixties. There's certainly no "Sidewinder," "Rumproller," or other time -wasting, inferior nonsense on "Soul Station" and his other recordings before 1965, the year when the pressures from the studio, the public, and even some of his "hipper" fellow musicians apparently got to him and led to a precipitous decline in his playing.

With musicians of this caliber, the word "jam session" means no more than it does on the hasty four albums Miles made for Prestige to finish his contractual obligations with the company. Today, each is regarded as a masterpiece. The only disappointment I find with this album is its brevity and somewhat deceptive labeling. Numbers 4-7 aren't four separate tracks but a single ballad medley. The date sorely needed one additional tune, preferably an up-tempo closer for the album to have satisfying completeness. Like his life, the featured player checked out too early.



Reviewer:

Despite this album's claim, Lee Morgan's debut recording was actually made for Blue Note on November 4, 1956. In the rush to record "the next Clifford Brown," Savoy then brought Lee into the studio with Hank Mobley, Hank Jones, Doug Watkins and Art Taylor on November 5th and 7th to cut the material on this CD. Savoy was able to utilize the catch phrase "Introducing Lee Morgan" because they got their product to market first.

Personnel:

Lee Morgan (trp)

Hank Mobley (ts)

Hank Jones (p)

Doug Watkins (b)

Arthur Taylor (d)

Tracks:

01. Hank's Shout

02. Nostalgia

03. Bet

04. Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise

05. P.S. I Love You

06. Easy Living

07. That's All

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