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Two months after recording his hit album “The Sidewinder”, trumpeter Lee Morgan returned to Van Gelder Studio in February 1964 to record his masterpiece “Search For The New Land”. For this session, Morgan assembled a sextet consisting of several young stars from Blue Note, including Herbie Hancock on piano, Grant Green on guitar and Wayne Shorter on tenor saxophone, as well as the dynamic rhythm team of bassist Reggie Workman and drummer Billy Higgins. The album opens with the 16-minute title track, a musical odyssey that alternates a shimmering rubato theme with a galloping exploration by each soloist. This is followed by four more unforgettable originals by Morgan, including “The Joker” and “Morgan The Pirate”, as well as the movingly plaintive ballad “Melancholee”.
As part of the extremely popular “Blue Note 85th Anniversary Reissue Series” Universal Music Japan presents the sonically impressive remastering of this jazz classic by the legendary Kevin Gray, who is also responsible for Blue Note US's analog reissues such as “Tone Poet” and “Classic Vinyl” – as a limited Japan only UHQCD with OBI stripe. The original recording session for “Search For The New Land” took place on February 15, 1964 at Rudy Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
UHQCD
1. Search For The New Land
2. The Joker
3. Mr. Kenyatta
4. Melancholee
5. Morgan The Pirate