Lee Morgan: Search For The New Land (Reissue – Vinyl Edition 180g)

Contents

1. Search for the new land
2. The joker
3. Mr. Kenyatta
4. Melancholee
5. Morgan the pirate

Just two months after recording his album “The Sidewinder” (which would soon prove to be a surprising hit), trumpeter Lee Morgan returned to Rudy Van Gelder’s studio to record “Search For The New Land” with an all-star sextet in February 1964. When the album, which featured five new originals by Morgan, was released in 1966, it also placed in both the then “Black Album” (today: Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums) and Billboard’s “Pop Album” charts.

Lee Morgan (trumpet); Wayne Shorter (tenor saxophone); Herbie Hancock (piano); Grant Green (guitar); Reggie Workman (bass); Billy Higgins (drums)

BLUE NOTE CLASSIC VINYL EDITION: Stereo, completely analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, pressed on 180g vinyl by Optimal.