The Young Lions The Young Lions: OJC Series

Original Jazz Classic Series Reissue of The Young Lions on 180g LP. Cut from the Original Master Tapes (AAA) by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio and Pressed at RTI.

The Young Lions was originally released in 1961 on Vee-Jay Records and features Wayne Shorter, Frank Strozier, Lee Morgan, Bobby Timmons, Bob Cranshaw, Albert Heath and Louis Hayes. The album contains 5 original cuts by Shorter, Timmons and Morgan.

The album title references Irwin Shaw's popular 1948 novel of the same name. In the album's liner notes, saxophonist Cannonball Adderley uses Shaw's novel to make an argument about jazz, claiming that there is a tension in modern jazz between tradition and the avant-garde. He suggests that conformity to either traditionalism or the avant-garde is stifling of "true genius."

This new edition of the album is released as part of the Original Jazz Classics Series on 180-gram vinyl pressed at RTI with all-analog mastering from the original tapes at Cohearent Audio and a Stoughton Tip-On Jacket.

Musicians:
Wayne Shorter - Tenor Saxophone
Frank Strozier - Alto Saxophone
Lee Morgan - Trumpet
Bobby Timmons - Piano
Bob Cranshaw - Bass
Albert Heath - Drums
Louis Hayes - Drums