(Jazz / Hard Bop) [LP][24/96] Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder (1964) - 2009, FLAC (tracks)

Nitty Gritty 1.5 RCM
Music Hall MMF 9.1
sticky hand stylus cleaning
Grado Master Reference 1 cartridge
Graham Slee Era Gold Reflex phono preamp
Mytek Stereo192 ADC (analog to digital converter)
cork platter mat, Blue Jean LC-1 interconnects, KAB super record grip Mk2
software used: Soundforge 9.0, ClickRepair 3.0.1 (in manual mode), Flac frontend 1.7.1
transferred February 2010

The Sidewinder is a 1964 album by jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan, recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood, New Jersey. It was released on Blue Note label as BLP 4157 and BST 84157. The title track was one of the defining recordings of the soul jazz genre, becoming a jazz standard. An edited version was released as a single. The album was to become a huge seller, and highly influential - many subsequent Lee Morgan albums, and other Blue Note discs, would duplicate (or approximate) this album's format, by following a long, funky opening blues with a handful of conventional hard bop tunes.
The original album's five tracks feature tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson, then 26, whom Morgan (then 25) claimed at the time to be mentoring. Also present are the noted jazz drummer Billy Higgins, and double bassist Bob Cranshaw, who would soon switch to electric bass and begin a decades-long association with Sonny Rollins.
originally released in 1964
Blue Note Records BST-84157

Lee Morgan - trumpet
Joe Henderson - tenor sax
Billy Higgins - drums
Bob Cranshaw - bass
Barry Harris - piano
mastered by Kevin Gray & Steve Hoffman at Acoustech Mastering
all compositions by Lee Morgan
produced by Alfred Lion
recorded by Rudy Van Gelder, on December 21, 1963, in Englewood Cliffs, NJ