The Procrastinator, an album from jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan, will be a part of the Blue Be aware Basic Vinyl collection. The reissue, which sees Morgan alongside different jazz greats like Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter, will probably be launched on August 15.
Between 1963 and 1968, Morgan skilled a very prolific interval, recording over a dozen albums for Blue Be aware. Nevertheless, many of those wouldn’t be launched till years later, and The Procrastinator was considered one of them. Although principally recorded in 1967, it wasn’t launched till 1978, some six years after Morgan died. By the point Morgan recorded The Procrastinator in 1967, he had already achieved crossover success together with his 1964 album The Sidewinder, with the title monitor even charting on the Billboard Sizzling 100.
The Procrastinator is comprised of six items, all of which had been composed by Morgan and Shorter. Morgan leads a sextet of some really inimitable musicians, together with Shorter on tenor saxophone, Bobby Hutcherson on vibraphone, Herbie Hancock on piano, Ron Carter on bass, and Billy Higgins on drums. Whereas The Procrastinator will not be Morgan’s best-known launch—that may be The Sidewinder—it however has develop into a favourite amongst Morgan’s followers.
All through his life, Morgan was not shy about talking on the significance of jazz music and the way he felt it deserved extra respect and a spotlight than it acquired from in style tradition. “If it wasn’t for music, this country would have blown up a long time ago, in fact, the whole world,” the musician bluntly stated in his last interview earlier than his demise, printed in Down Beat. “Music is the only thing that spans across all ethnic groups and all languages. Music is the only thing that awakens the dead man and charms the savage beast. Without it, this would be a hell of a world!”
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