LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Bernstein: Mass Jubilant Sykes (baritone) / Morgan State University Choir / Peabody Children's Chorus / Baltimore Symphony Orchestra / Marin Alsop [ Naxos American Classics / 2 CD - released 15/Aug/2009 ] "It's all fabulously recorded with a glittering impact that never turns unduly aggressive. The multi-textural layering in the climactic Dona Nobis Pacem comes across as both musically and physically overwhelming." (10/10 ClassicsToday) |
Lee Morgan
Four Classic Albums (Dizzy Atmosphere / Here's Lee Morgan / Leeway / Expoobident) [ Avid Jazz / 2 CD - released 7/Jul/2017 ] For someone who died in such horrific circumstances and at such a tragically young age of 33, trumpeter Lee Morgan had an astonishingly prolific career! Most of his musical recording career was spent at Blue Note Records where he made 25 albums under... |
JANET JENNINGS / WITI IHIMAERA / TOM ROA
Flowing Water Voices New Zealand, Joel Amosa, James Ioelu, Ora Kihi, Amy Thomas, Anna Simmons, Angus Simmons, Morgan-Andrew King [ Performing Arts Community Trust / 2 CD - released 8/Apr/2022 ] This unique blend of kapa haka, opera, drama and music tells the histories of Aotearoa New Zealand through key events that took place from the emerging of this land from the waters, to the arrival of Māori, the arrival of British, to ensuing... |
Bill Frisell & Thomas Morgan
Epistrophy [ ECM / CD - released 12/Apr/2019 ] Like their acclaimed ECM release Small Town of 2017 - which The Guardian called "wistful and mesmerizing… tonally ingenious and haunting" - Epistrophy by guitarist Bill Frisell and bassist Thomas Morgan was recorded at New York City's Village... |
Bill Frisell & Thomas Morgan
Small Town [ ECM / CD - released 16/Jun/2017 ] Small Town presents guitarist Bill Frisell and bassist Thomas Morgan in a program of duets, the poetic chemistry of their playing captured live at New York's hallowed Village Vanguard. Frisell made his debut as a leader for ECM in 1983 with the... |
Charles Lloyd / Bill Frisell / Thomas Morgan
Trios: Chapel [ Blue Note / Verve Records / CD - released 24/Jun/2022 ] Charles Lloyd has long been a free spirit, master musician, and visionary. For more than 6 decades the legendary saxophonist and composer has loomed large over the music world, and at 84 years old he remains at the height of his powers and as... |
Lee Morgan
Caramba (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 18/Feb/2022 ] When Lee Morgan recorded his album Caramba, he was only months away from his 30th birthday, making the fact that this was his 23rd Blue Note recording even more astounding. A full-fledged master, his technical prowess on the horn matched by the... |
Lee Morgan
Four Classic Albums (Candy / City Lights / Indeed! / The Cooker) [ Avid Jazz / 2 CD - released 12/Dec/2019 ] AVID Jazz continues with its Four Classic Albums plus series with a re-mastered 2CD second set release from Lee Morgan complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details "Candy", "City Lights", "Indeed!" and "The Cooker" For someone... |
Lee Morgan
The Rumproller (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 20/Jan/2023 ] After trumpeter Lee Morgan set the music world on fire with the runaway success of his hit soul-jazz single "The Sidewinder" in 1964, many artists tried to duplicate his triumphant feat in search of another boogaloo sensation. Even Morgan himself... |
Lee Morgan
Search For The New Land (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 16/Feb/2024 ] Two months after recording what would become his hit record The Sidewinder, trumpeter Lee Morgan returned to Van Gelder Studio in February 1964 to create his masterful album Search for the New Land. For the session Morgan assembled a sextet... |