Lee Morgan: City Lights (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) 1LP ETJS-32 Almost Like being In Love

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That same year Parlan made his first Blue Note appearance on Lou Donaldson’s album The Time Is Right and in early-1960 he began leading his own sessions for the label with a run of six quintessential hard bop dates recorded over a prolific 16-month period

Lee Morgan: City Lights (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) 1LP ETJS-32 Almost Like being In LoveBlue Note, 1958 Trumpeter Lee Morgan was just 19 years old and still early on in his lengthy Blue Note association when he cut his brightly swinging album City Lights in August 1957. The date featured a wonderful sextet with Curtis Fuller on trombone, George Coleman on alto and tenor saxophone, Ray Bryant on piano, Paul Chambers on bass, and Art Taylor on drums. The brilliant young trumpet prodigy was still turning heads with his show stealing