Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder (Vinyl) Chch New The recording was done in

The recording was done in Neil Young's house in Topanga Canyon

Seminal tracks such as Michigan and Smiley’s ‘Nice Up The Dance’

making room for the internal monologues and imagined dialogues you might not otherwise dare to hear

and tones from an arsenal of analog synths

Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder (Vinyl) Chch New The recording was done inCarried by its almost impossibly infectious eponymous opening track, The Sidewinder helped foreshadow the sounds of boogaloo and soul jazz with its healthy R&B influence and Latin tinge. While the rest of the album retreats to a more conventional hard bop sound, Morgan's compositions are forward thinking and universally solid. Only 25 at the time of its release, Morgan was accomplished (and perhaps cocky) enough to speak of mentoring the great Joe