Out on January 2, Blue Notice Overview, Quantity Three: Really, Madly, Deeplee is a limited-edition field set curated by Blue Notice President Don Was – and this time the seminal jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan is within the highlight.
On this third quantity, the guts of the Blue Notice Overview stays the music—The Most interesting In Jazz Since 1939—and there’s much more than earlier than in Quantity Three with an unique assortment of recent recordings, an unique beforehand unreleased discovery, and timeless treasures from the Blue Notice vaults. To make all of it sound nice the “Tone Poet” Joe Harley supervised the vinyl mastering and manufacturing with mastering by Kevin Grey.
Really, Madly, Deeplee features a new album on 2-LP, 180g 12” vinyl (CD model additionally included) of recent jazz luminaries together with Joel Ross, Invoice Frisell, Derrick Hodge, ARTEMIS, Chris Botti, Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah, and Keyon Harrold performing items from Lee Morgan’s traditional Blue Notice albums plus a beforehand unreleased alternate model of “Morgan the Pirate” from Search For The New Land.
As well as, the boxset features a 10” vinyl launch of a never-before-issued jam session on the Gate of Horn in Chicago, most likely in 1959. Found by Zev Feldman, the session was led by Philly Joe Jones, and options Lee Morgan, Ira Sullivan, Nicky Hill, Bobby Timmons, and Spanky DeBrest.
Additionally included in Really, Madly, Deeplee is an all-analog 180g 12” vinyl reissue of Lee Morgan’s 1967 album Sonic Growth that includes David Newman, Cedar Walton, Ron Carter, and Billy Higgins. There’s additionally an all-analog 45rpm 7” vinyl reissue of Lee Morgan’s 1966 singles “Sweet Honey Bee” and “Hey Chico” from his Charisma session that includes Jackie McLean, Hank Mobley, Cedar Walton, Paul Chambers, and Billy Higgins.
Lastly, there’s additionally some implausible memorabilia, together with a Blue Notice 45rpm Document Adaptor; two 12”x12” lithographs of Lee Morgan by photographer and Blue Notice co-founder Francis Wolff and the zine Out Of The Blue that includes a group of essays, photographs, and extra.
One of many key onerous bop musicians of the Nineteen Sixties and a cornerstone of the Blue Notice label, the influential Lee Morgan got here to prominence in his late teenagers, recording with bandleaders like John Coltrane, Curtis Fuller, Dizzy Gillespie, Hank Mobley and Wayne Shorter, and enjoying in Artwork Blakey’s Jazz Messengers.
Morgan’s signature composition “The Sidewinder”, on the album of the identical identify, grew to become a shock crossover hit on the pop and R&B charts in 1964. After a second stint in Blakey’s band, he continued to work prolifically as each a frontrunner and a sideman till his demise in 1972.
Pre-order the Really, Madly, Deeplee boxset.
