Search for the New Land

Artist: Lee Morgan
Label: Blue Note Records
Category: Music

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Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 724358091021
EAN: 0724358091021
ASIN: B0000BV210

Release Date: 2003-09-02

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Tracks:

Search For New Land
The Joker
Mr. Kenyatta
Melancholee
Morgan The Pirate

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Customer Reviews:

more straightforward than its reputation.......2006-12-10

Lee Morgan had a hit with "The Sidewinder", and then tried to recreate the success of that song with a bunch of funky tunes. Before "The Sidewinder" came out, Lee recorded "Search For A New Land". This CD thus has the reputation of being untainted by his soon-to-come commercial success. The title track is the most notable song. It's long, and has a more progressive song structure than the typical theme-solo-theme structure. It's a good song, and you can hear Lee stretching his legs in a salutory fashion. Lee chose a great group of sidemen: Wayne Shorter, Grant Green, Herbie Hancock, Reggie Workman, and Billy Higgins. The rest of the album is more like tracks 2-5 from "The Sidewinder" -- standard Lee Morgan. Of course, that's hardly a criticism, the remainder of the CD is very good. Very good!

MORGAN THE PIRATE is my favorite Lee Morgan track.......2005-07-20

SEARCH FOR THE NEW LAND: Featuring Grant's 2-note oscillating nautical motif. Wayne angles in in an obligatorily Coltranesque manner. His opening note has an interval in relation to the tonic that makes him sound like Coltrane. But I still haven't gotten around to ascertaining the intervalic number so sue me. My favorite solo is Herbie's. I love those gothadelic arpeggios.

THE JOKER: It's sorta bland but I still like it. During Herbie's solo, the others do that 6-note intro motif. One after the other with each one in a different key. What a fab gimmick.

MR. KENYATTA: In fast sextuple time and it's my favorite track. Grant really acquitted himself well in this thing.

MORGAN THE PIRATE: Another sextuple-time track. I really enjoy Wayne's fast blur-phrases. He executed them very accurately.

What Lee can be !.......2004-09-30

This album is just full of great music. On one hand there is the familiar Morgan sound and phrasing, but there are longer and more daring compositions, that bring out other, more contemplative qualities in Lee's playing. Morgan and Shorter are a good combination (see The Gigolo) and the examine new frontiers here. Billy Higgins is great as usual, and Grant Green adds to the ensemble sound.
This is one CD that is recommended to any Jazz fan, as its creativeness deifies definition, and crosses stylistics boundaries.

The search is over for some new inspiration.......2004-07-09

Just listen to Billy Higgins lay it down! I love the sound on Search for the New Land, it's the quickest fifteen minutes ever! Lee Morgan wrote some great tunes for this one, Morgan the Pirate has such a warm sound. Dig Grant Green hanging with Morgan and Shorter on the front line. If you don't have this and you are getting tired of Sidewinder, Blue Train, etc. pick this up NOW!!

Add this masterpiece to your collection !.......2003-10-07

This album is fantastic on several levels, musically groundbreaking, yet firmly in the tradition it will please more avant garde listeners and mainstream fans alike. It`s not as sunny as The Sidewinder (Morgan`s other masterpiece), it`s a different shade of Morgan, shining as a composer of great talent. Special mentions go to the leader`s trumpet playing, as well as Herbie Hancock and the great Billy Higgins. The title track is a tour de force of great finesse, Mr. Kenyatta is a standout track, but the rest of the album is just as enjoyable.

Highly recommended.

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