LEE MORGAN - CITY LIGHTS (200g MONO LP)

Signed to the label when he only eighteen years old, this jazz prodigy, who cut his teeth as a Jazz Messengers with the great Art Blakey, proceeded to record a stream of impressive records as a leader for Blue Note. At the ripe old age nineteen, Morgan helmed the City Lights sessions in August of 1957 at Rudy Van Gelder’s Hackensack site. The all-star sextet tackles arrangements provided by the likes of Benny Golson and Gigi Gryce that are a perfect fit to their collective playing. Curtis Fuller on trombone, George Coleman blowing both alto and tenor, Ray Bryant at the piano, Paul Chambers on bass and Art Taylor’s drumming add to Morgan’s trumpet that produced a classic of 50’s modern jazz. Cut on Classic's all tube pure mono cutting system by Bernie 'be-bop' Grundman from the original full track mono master tapes and pressed on Classic's proprietary 200g Super Vinyl Profile. Another 'must have' installment in Classic Blue Note Signature Mono LP Series.

  1.    City Lights 
  2.    Tempo De Waltz 
  3.    You're Mine You 
  4.    Just By Myself 
  5.    Kin Folks