The Sidewinder

Occupation

The Sidewinder is a jazz album by Lee Morgan, recorded on 21 December 1963, published the following year on Blue Note Records.

The album

The album The Sidewinder is now one of the classic recordings of the soul jazz. Especially the title track was one of the final pieces of this genre and became a frequently played jazz standard. In addition to the solos there is Harris accompanying work emphasized because it uses a very well thought -writing, in contrast to the other pieces on the album, and a very insistent appears in the accompaniment -like tremolo slowly over the harmonies slightly modified deep trill duration. It appeared in the 1960s as a single release. The album was a great success for Blue Note and one of today's most influential jazz labels of the plates. The other title of the album follow stylistically rather the hard bop. With his following albums on Blue Note Lee Morgan tried to repeat the success of " The Sidewinder ," which he was not able.

The most important musician was with Morgan the then 26 -year-old tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson, who had come back just from Philadelphia to New York. All tracks were written by Lee Morgan. The album was recorded by Rudy Van Gelder; the liner notes were by Leonard Feather.

The title

Effect story

The decoupled single was in 1964 in the pop charts a successful " sleeper hit ". "With the polynuclear Pops " Morgan gave " the already vague floating in the air funk-jazz finally on the way ." Richard Cook and Brian Morton draw in their Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD from the album with the highest rating of four stars with the addition of the "crown" for an extraordinary album.

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