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Lee Morgan - The Cooker - Blue Note Tone Poet Series - New Vinyl Record - Ships Fast!.
The Cooker is an album by jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan, released on the Blue Note label in January 1958. It was recorded on September 29, 1957, and features a quintet with Morgan, Pepper Adams, Bobby Timmons, Paul Chambers and Philly Joe Jones.
Recorded and released while Morgan was still just nineteen years old, The Cooker is the first album to feature his own original compositions, as well as the first without any compositions written by Benny Golson.
The Cooker is considered to demonstrate Morgan's early bebop virtuosity, with frequent double time improvisational lines. It is also noted for performance trademarks which would later come to typify Morgan's style, such as clipped notes, upward slurs, half-valving, and triple-tonguing.
On the bebop standard "A Night in Tunisia", Morgan avoids being compared with Charlie Parker's famous 4-bar break on the piece by not playing during it; he then plays a rapid solo that is mostly in double time.[5] The second track, Morgan's composition "Heavy Dipper," is "an infectious, medium-tempo swinger." "Just One of Those Things" is another up-tempo piece. "Lover Man" is a ballad.
Listening to Lee Morgan blow his molten solo on “A Night In Tunisia,” the opening track of The Cooker, it’s hard to fathom that he was only 19 years old at the time. Recorded just 2 weeks after Morgan’s dazzling performance on John Coltrane’s masterpiece Blue Train in September 1957, The Cooker was in fact Morgan’s 5th Blue Note album as a leader. Bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Philly Joe Jones (both of whom also played on Blue Train) are joined by baritone saxophone master Pepper Adams and the great Bobby Timmons on piano on this superbly swinging session.
The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow states: "Morgan plays remarkably well for his age (already ranking just below Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis), making this an essential acquisition."
Tracklist:
A1   A Night In Tunisia A2   Heavy Dipper B1   Just One Of Those Things B2   Lover Man B3   New-Ma
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