Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder

[dennismenace01]

Saw Lee Morgan at Finsbury Park Empire in 1966...I can't remember much of the show ?

[TraianusImperator]

This is just the best Jazz there is..

[kewlfonz]

This is very hard tune to play right: Why's that? Answer=syncopation... It sounds as though it's shuffle and in fact, it is. However the shuffled notes are not played with an evenly spaced triplet feel. It's a very loose triplet which almost sounds as though it's not a triplet—The whole groove/band, is playing this feel.

I've yet to hear an amateur jazz band play this tune right. Very hard syncopation (new orleans/swamp style) to master. Try some Gumbo Stew...

[abrahamsbryan]

Brings back memories ! This was my music in my teens ! I am old now but still loves my Jazz. Joe Henderson makes this whole tune feel complete complimenting the great Lee Morgan. Barry Harris carries those chords right through the tune and Bob Cranshaw works his magic on his Bass ! Billy Higgins carries the beat so well ! I thank them all for their contribution to Jazz and music of today ! These are some of the Giants of Jazz ! Bless them ! Bryan Lou Abrahams

[Scathe8000]

just picked up this album today from my local record spot - my first Blue Note record!

[bentradotto]

fantastic piece - but i can't help thinking that the bass player would have preferred to keep it shorter - seems to be running seriously out of juice by the end of the first - rather out of tune - head... but the contrast between the highhat rhythm and the horns is priceless. and to my wife's dismay i can sing the whole of lee's solo by heart in the shower...

[TheEpicTrolling]

4chan brought me here,

[speeps84]

@TheEpicTrolling good shit man

whoever posted this was definitely a bro

[Netspin1]

Just happened to be tooling eastbound at 2:00 AM on the Jackie Robinson Parkway in my '66 425 hp Corvette when this came on.

You get to know what it's like to live inside a bass solo.

[Stanojevic115]

the funny thing is this was so famous back then in the 60s and now not that many enjoy jazz.

[oldoldschoolme]

can you imagine miles and lee morgan on the same stage? it happened in chicago at the regal theater along with art blakey.

[davidnz04]

Perfect, move all day and night on this, simple, humble, great.

[abstractbrainscans]

that bass solo is badass!

[fiervahl]

The is the quintessential "steppin' out" music.

[wynn52tube]

It was this album and Song For My Father that introduced me to Joe Henderson. His solo on both sides are very lyrical. (R.I.P Joe, I love you man!!)

It seems that people have lost the desire to play musical instruments. It's the best thing I've ever done. Music opens a whole new world of possibilities and thought.

[MrTheSeide]

2:03

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3:45



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1:53

[Cthulhuized]

Jazz is Art and colours, like a canvas full of shapes and tonalities!

[mussman717word]

Love the false stop around 8:48 or so.

[cb0123]

these solos are great, how about the solo of Cannonabll Adderley on 'Im on my Way' oh yeah

[patrickduis]

Super record, in my top 5 of favorite Jazz records.....

[illusionstateofmind]

great!

[GuthaxeTheReaper]

This is my Favorite song we played in jazz band i was da bass player it twas epic

[natureandchaos]

First time I heard this one.... pretty damn good!

[MegaBanne]

I swear this is the coolest bag ever, i swear!

[RFGArt]

my fav LP when i was 18... still give me chills...... ;)

[conchuchu64]

I still get chills whenever I hear this song...it's great!!

[callonthesly]

Great piece.!..Jazz was created and advanced in the US but oddly you have to go beyond these shores,like Europe and other places around the Globe to find a real appreciation for It.

[YellowinWhite]

@callonthesly That may seem to be the case, but, as a resident of Atlanta, I assure you that there is a huge amount of appreciation of jazz in the United States. It just may not seem apparent to an outsider because jazz is not a noticeable part of popular culture here, but you don't have to dive too deep to find a lively jazz scene with excellent homegrown jazz musicians.

[clever072004]

@YellowinWhite What you said here is so right there is a army for Jazz, waiting for a moment to support our true art, I am ashame the pop culture will not notice us...!

[smithlasha]

who is that stupied idiot who dislikes this?

[WhereAmazingHappends]

i hear this song since i was 4...

[FrancescoGuardi]

@WhereAmazingHappens Same to me !

This was one of few jazz records of my parents and brought me to Jazz . I know every note by heart.

(Other were Time out/Brubeck and Mahalia Jackson...)

Love the bass-solo - pitch little too high, but that's it !

[WhereAmazingHappends]

@FrancescoGuardi..we have around 200 CDs and i know every song of them by heart! every kind of music...from miles davis to pink floyd..but i allways loved this song...

[FrancescoGuardi]

@WhereAmazingHappends Saw you're 21yo.What a joy to see that this old stuff can be a favorite to the youth. This was hip, when my parents were young. When I was young I have been an outsider cause of hearing this.

Times change, but the good stuff will ever come back !

[WhereAmazingHappends]

@FrancescoGuardi actualy this music never dies!there s allways few people keeping it alive..(and im actualy 15) hahah kinda hironic isn't it?

[FrancescoGuardi]

@WhereAmazingHappends 15??? Wow,this let me believe again in the upcoming Generation ! :))

Did you see the interview of Bob Cranshaw (b) talking about the sidewinder? He tells they needed only one title to finish the record but didn't have it. Morgan spended 20min on toilet, came back and presented some notes to the fellows. Cranshaw was requested to play some notes for intro. He did - and that's it ! I ever thought this is a perfect construction, like a diamond. But the truth: born on toilet!

[WhereAmazingHappends]

@FrancescoGuardi wherever its born its a masterpiece so i just look at the funny side of it :)

[handymandan100]

@FrancescoGuardi my buddy used to say "I eat precious stones, 'cause sometimes in my shit you'll find a diamond." Not quite the case here, but a funny quip none-the-less!

[anghmho]

I still have the 33 that I bought in '64 while in was still in the Army. The black guys in my outfit were amazed that I listened to this stuff. Went a long way toward breaking down racial barriers, which were pretty formidable at that time. And are again, sadly.

[boazmoss]

Barry Harris-down home funky.

[EdTracey347]

As Terry Gross (of NPR's "Fresh Air" radio program) noted on the day that Billy Higgens died: listen to how his drums power this song.

[MultiMrgun]

Go sax

[clever07]

ONe of the best trumpet of all time, I would sit and listen to this LP all day & night...What great memories...!

[musicalgamingathlete]

This was the first song I ever played in my 6th grade jazz band :) Great song!

[billroue]

@musicalgamingathlete Well put!

[goodtimesatoremhigh]

The only thing better than Lee Morgan is...nothing.

[theotherbabies]

tune

[sdcfan3000]

nice

[dscfab]

Straight up Jazz, Lee Morgan swingin' out there is nothing finer!

[djayjenk]

I remember when my dad bought this album home! Bebop was king in my house lol

[krocronos]

track o licious!!!!

[dolmanf]

killer tune!!!