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Favoriting July 10, 2013: LEE MORGAN 75th Birthday Salute

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Further study:
The Lady Who Shot Lee Morgan (1996 interview with Helen Morgan)
Delightfulee: The Life and Music of Lee Morgan, by Jeff McMillan
Lee Morgan: His Life, Music and Culture, by Tom Perchard
Hard Bop: Jazz & Black Music 1955-1965, by David H. Rosenthal
Lee Morgan: Incandescent, Incendiary & Insouciant
Jeff Helgesen's Lee Morgan Tribute site

Artist Track Album Approx. start time
Lee Morgan  Yes I Can, No You Can't (Morgan, 1965)   Favoriting The Gigolo  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Lee Morgan  Psychedelic (Morgan, 1967)   Favoriting The Sixth Sense  0:06:58 (Pop-up)
reading from David Rosenthal book  excerpt #1 from "Hard Bop: Jazz & Black Music 1955-1965"   Favoriting   0:12:49 (Pop-up)
Lee Morgan  Portrait of Doll (Jackie McLean, 1965)   Favoriting Infinity  0:18:23 (Pop-up)
Lee Morgan  Speedball (Morgan, 1965)   Favoriting The Gigolo  0:23:25 (Pop-up)
reading from David Rosenthal book  excerpt #2 from "Hard Bop: Jazz & Black Music 1955-1965"   Favoriting   0:28:28 (Pop-up)
Lee Morgan  Dee Lawd (Morgan, 1968)   Favoriting Taru  0:34:36 (Pop-up)
Lee Morgan  Soulita (Morgan, 1968)   Favoriting Caramba  0:40:09 (Pop-up)
Hank Mobley (Lee Morgan: trumpet)  Carolyn (Morgan, 1963)   Favoriting No Room for Squares  0:46:13 (Pop-up)
reading from David Rosenthal book  excerpt #3 from "Hard Bop: Jazz & Black Music 1955-1965"   Favoriting   0:51:19 (Pop-up)
Lee Morgan  Zip Code (Morgan, 1965)   Favoriting Infinity  0:56:58 (Pop-up)
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers (Lee Morgan, trumpet)  Petty Larceny (Morgan, 1962)   Favoriting The Freedom Rider  1:02:56 (Pop-up)
reading from David Rosenthal book  excerpt #4 from "Hard Bop: Jazz & Black Music 1955-1965"   Favoriting   1:09:40 (Pop-up)
Joe Henderson (Lee Morgan, trumpet)  Caribbean Fire Dance (Henderson, 1966)   Favoriting Mode for Joe  1:13:41 (Pop-up)
Lee Morgan  You Go to My Head (Coots/Gillespie, 1965)   Favoriting The Gigolo  1:19:59 (Pop-up)
reading from David Rosenthal book  excerpt #5 from "Hard Bop: Jazz & Black Music 1955-1965"   Favoriting   1:27:16 (Pop-up)
Lee Morgan  Kenyatta (Morgan, 1964)   Favoriting Search for the New Land  1:33:11 (Pop-up)
 
Coco O  Where the Wind Blows   Favoriting The Great Gatsby (soundtrack)  1:45:21 (Pop-up)
Melody's Echo Chamber  Some Time Alone, Alone   Favoriting Melody's Echo Chamber  1:49:06 (Pop-up)
Sun Ra  Island in the Sun   Favoriting Janus  1:52:25 (Pop-up)
 
George Harrison  Devil's Radio   Favoriting Cloud Nine  1:59:20 (Pop-up)
Bruno Lawrence Electric Revelation and Traveling Apparition (a.k.a. Blerta)  Bankman   Favoriting Blerta  2:02:45 (Pop-up)
Danielson Familie  Animal in Every Corner   Favoriting Trying Hartz (First Fruits '94-'04)  2:06:23 (Pop-up)
George Strait  Here for a Good Time   Favoriting Here for a Good Time  2:10:09 (Pop-up)
The 1900s  Acutiplantar Dude   Favoriting Cold & Kind  2:12:54 (Pop-up)
The Shins  Girl Sailor   Favoriting Wincing the Night Away  2:17:40 (Pop-up)
Winfield Parker  Shake That Thing   Favoriting Arctic 45 (1967)  2:21:15 (Pop-up)
 
Doug Carn  Mighty Mighty   Favoriting Adam's Apple  2:29:30 (Pop-up)
Dorothy Hindman (composer); Atlas Saxophone Quartet (performer)  Drift (for saxophone quartet)   Favoriting Tapping the Furnace  2:34:55 (Pop-up)
Tine Thing Helseth  Je Ne T'aime Pas   Favoriting Storyteller  2:40:32 (Pop-up)
Detektivbyrån  Dygnet Runt   Favoriting Wermland  2:44:33 (Pop-up)
Brian Dewan  Where They Belong / Solomon Grundy   Favoriting The Operating Theater  2:45:57 (Pop-up)
Pascal Pinon  Somewhere   Favoriting Twosomeness  2:50:57 (Pop-up)
Lane Steinberg (as Wall of Orchids)  No One's Looking at the Rain   Favoriting Wall of Orchids  2:54:20 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:01pm
rrg:

Well, hi there.
Avatar 3:02pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- ready to be Schooled!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:02pm
rrg:

Ooh, the LONG version.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:05pm
Tome:

..holds the totem pole way up high!!
Avatar 3:10pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...12 years younger than Miles & 'Trane...
Avatar 3:14pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Sixth Sense album wiki:
en.wikipedia.org...
  3:21pm
Chico:

This guys story is so metaphorical to my life right now its slightly chilling im hearing what I am at this moment...
Avatar 3:23pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Infinity :
en.wikipedia.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:26pm
Irwin:

Discog if anyone wants to know personnel, session dates, etc.:
en.wikipedia.org...
Avatar 3:28pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Better!
...because one does want to know...
Avatar 3:29pm
Droll:

Sorry to hear about The Good Doctor, but if it means a show reprise, so be it.

Nothing played so far sounds like 50-year old recording. The lack of production is what makes it so timeless. If they played live in front of you, it would sound just like this.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:29pm
Mike Sin:

Really enjoying this Lee Morgan special, Irwin! Not to take focus away from the fine music, but was Slug's Saloon a venue of note back in the day? Or just an later hours-type jamming joint?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:31pm
Jeff Golick:

Just quickly checking in with a quick "thanks for doing this show, Irwin!"
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:32pm
rrg:

Holy cow, that's a huge discography. I had no idea (because I never really looked).

A Lee Morgan completist would have to get a lot of stuff.
Avatar 3:32pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Droll: Exactly. No Remastering - no Mastering! Just Musicians & Microphones.
...That's why Miles getting Electric & Editing & Mixing was seen (& indeed felt) as such a departure in Jazz.
Avatar 3:36pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

rrg: These Jazz guys! Just playing all the time.
- Just nuts - productive as hell.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:38pm
rrg:

A lot of people do their jobs as enthusiastically but not everyone has someone there to record it all for posterity.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:38pm
Irwin:

He did his first Blue Note session as a leader at age 18. He led 25 sessions under his own name in 15 years. A deep catalog for a guy who died young.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:39pm
Irwin:

@Mike:: Don't know much about Slug's. Check link to "The Lady Who Shot Lee Morgan." She talks about the club.
Avatar 3:41pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- some people are under-recorded - good point.
...18!! Earnest about the Music - not foolin' around.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:42pm
Tome:

Slug's in that day you had to dodge the bullets, pretty much,, E3 between B & C,, now you're lucky to rent say a closet over there for under $1,000 a month ,,,
Avatar 3:44pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- we owe a lot to the Producers & Labels who believed in these guys
- & to a market that existed for it @ one time.
...I'm old enuff to remember some Fusion on the radio - but that's about it - & even that's long long gone...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:48pm
Tome:

WRVR 106.7 > bit.ly...
  3:53pm
Laura L:

Thanks for this set of perfection, Irwin.
Avatar 3:55pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...'Carolyn' (Lee as sideman) was happening in another world when the Beatles were inbetween 1st two albums & JFK was Pres. ...
Avatar 3:57pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- there was just a literal thunderclap here...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:59pm
Uncle Michael:

I'm late for class!
Avatar 3:59pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Kerouac: 'Kicks, Joy, Darkness'...
Avatar 4:00pm
Droll:

Irwin, Nearly his entire discography is Blue Note, was he under a long-term contract foolishly signed at 18, or did he stay with them by choice?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:03pm
Irwin:

@Droll: Blue Note had the monopoly on hard boppers--and they had the best. I get the sense that in a business in which musicians were (and are) routinely taken advantage of by labels, Blue Note was a cut above. Just an incredible catalog. You don't consistently attract that caliber of musician unless your reputation warrants it. They were the Tiffany of jazz labels in the '50s and '60s.
  4:06pm
steve whitehouse:

thanks for the great show Irwin!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:08pm
Irwin:

Blue Note history:
en.wikipedia.org...
Avatar 4:08pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- lost power - may again...
...compared to Atlantic (earlier for Jazz?) & Impulse? Blue Note *stills* carries remnants of these connotations...
...portrait of Lee being painted suggests he wouldn't stand for mess...
  4:08pm
Listening Out There:

...remember, critics later on called the music "bebop." It was an onomatopoeic term. To most musicians, it was simply "the new music." There's always something new...
Avatar 4:11pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- from BlueNote wiki - this a very useful sentence:
...'Historically, Blue Note has principally been associated with the "hard bop" style of jazz (mixing bebop with other forms of music including soul, blues, rhythm and blues and gospel)'...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:17pm
rsj:

where's mr franks at?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:18pm
Irwin:

@rsj: Ray?
Avatar 4:19pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

No Joe Frank this week because of Lee Morgan tribute.
Avatar 4:20pm
Droll:

. o O ( Yep, this solo is all that )
[clap clap clap -- studio jazz always sounds naked at the end of a solo]
Avatar 4:30pm
Michael:

A bit late but delightful show Irwin!
Avatar 4:36pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- really good writing (dif.s opinion noted) painting the times & answering a lotta questions I had right now...
  4:39pm
as:

really wonderful tribute to the great lee morgan, thanks Irwin! and cannot say how much I love hearing hard bop on wfmu!!!
  4:39pm
Listening Out There:

Irwin...is it Wes Montgomery on guitar in "Kenyatta"? Sure sounds like it t'me...
Avatar 4:42pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

g. Grant Green:
en.wikipedia.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:42pm
Irwin:

@LOT: Grant Green on gtr. Album recorded '64, I think Wes died in '63.
  4:45pm
Listening Out There:

Ah. ==Thx to you both for clarifying==
Avatar 4:46pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

en.wikipedia.org...
John Leslie "Wes" Montgomery (March 6, 1923 – June 15, 1968)
- Outstanding stuff Irwin even were it not winged !
  4:46pm
as:

speaking of the morgan/green combo, for something a bit different I'd recommend checking out Reuben Wilson's Love Bug (also blue note) which features both Morgan and green playing on a very funky Hammond organ session. was also cool to hear the track off Taru with the young George benson
  4:46pm
as:

speaking of the morgan/green combo, for something a bit different I'd recommend checking out Reuben Wilson's Love Bug (also blue note) which features both Morgan and green playing on a very funky Hammond organ session. was also cool to hear the track off Taru with the young George benson
Avatar 4:47pm
spodiodi:

The Lee Morgan Tribute was boss.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:48pm
Irwin:

@RRN63: Thanks for correcting on Wes's demise date. Knew it was a "round" number.
Avatar 4:50pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...try WesWiki link again...:
en.wikipedia.org...
Avatar 5:03pm
hamburger:

electromagnetic field around a radio www.wired.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:11pm
Irwin:

@as: Thanks for the tip. I'll track down the Reuben Wilson album.
Avatar 5:15pm
Droll:

Lee Morgan to George Straight in less than an hour. Well played!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:23pm
Irwin:

@Droll: Like the sign says: genre-surfing tokenism.
  5:29pm
Laura L:

Who knew?

acu·ti·plan·tar adjective \ə-¦kyü-tə-¦plan-tər, -ˌtär\
of certain birds: having the hinder part of the tarsus sharp angled —opposed to latiplantar
Origin of ACUTIPLANTAR
acuti- + plantar

First Known Use: 1902
Avatar 5:29pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- George Harrison's last was 'Brainwashed' - or is that considered 'posthumous'?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:32pm
Irwin:

@LL: Who knew indeed? Not I.
@RRN63: I defer to anyone else's better knowledge of Beatle afterlives.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 5:33pm
Matt from Springfield:

Oh well, just have to wait for The Good Doctor to come in then. The good news: TWO Lee Morgan tributes to listen to!!

Afternoon! Glad to toke with you all!
Avatar 5:38pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...I think 'Brainwashed' was mostly finished - & I like it!...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:40pm
Irwin:

@LL: So what is an acutiplantar "dude"?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:41pm
Rick from SC:

some kind of birdman, I guess
  5:43pm
@:

^-(*=0%#
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:44pm
Irwin:

A guy with sharp-angled tarsals?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 5:47pm
Matt from Springfield:

"Harvey Acutiplantar"..has a good ring to it.
  5:48pm
Laura L:

Dunno--but I would not get near his tarsals! Run away fast from the Acutiplantar dude!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 5:49pm
Matt from Springfield:

Dewan's Scotch, the best kind. Can't wait for the "Solomon Grundy" part!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 5:50pm
chris:

Glad to know the art of court jestering is not dead.
Avatar 5:51pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...brave ♪ Sir Robin ♫ ran away...
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 5:52pm
Matt from Springfield:

All right, Wall of Sound folk style!

@RRN63: The brave, the brave, Sir Robin...
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 5:54pm
Matt from Springfield:

Star for Pascal Pinon!
  6:00pm
Listening Out There:

Another great program stumbles to an end... :)
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 6:00pm
Matt from Springfield:

Great way to end it Irwin, thanks!
See you listeners @7SD, otherwise, have a good night!
Avatar 6:01pm
Droll:

Thanks, Irwin. See yinz later!
  5:57pm
Michael K:

Just saw the question about Slug's among the comments and also the answer that said something about having to dodge bullets there. That's an exaggeration, although the world would be a better place today if Lee Morgan had been able to dodge a bullet. I felt no less safe at Slug's than at the Vanguard or other venues, such as the Five Spot and Half Note. (If memory serves--and mine doesn't serve as well as it used to--I saw Pharaoh Sanders at Slug's about a week or so before the Lee Morgan shooting.)
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