The Quarantined Jazz Voyager

Remaining vigilant, being healthy, social distancing as those in our nation who continue to navigate positively and negatively through this pandemic.

This week the album I’m recommending for listening is The Young Lions by Lee Morgan leading an ad hoc group of musicians who made up the septet for this recording. It was recorded on April 25, 1960 at the Bell Sound Studios in New York City and was produced by Sid McCoy. The album was released in 1961 on Vee~Jay Records.

The album title echoes that of a popular 1948 novel by Irwin Shaw which had been made into a feature film shortly before the album was recorded. The young lions who made the music on this album have varied musical philosophies and sundry jazz backgrounds.

The young lions phrase was revived in jazz in the 1980s when, as in 1960, there was a tension between the modern jazz traditionalists and the avant-garde.

1. Seeds of Sin (Shorter) ~ 5:44
2. Scourn’ (Shorter) ~ 5:58
3. Fat Lady (Shorter) ~ 5:03
4. Peaches and Cream (Shorter) ~ 6:52
5. That’s Right (Morgan) ~ 11:37

• Lee Morgan – trumpet
• Wayne Shorter – tenor sax
• Frank Strozier – alto sax
• Bobby Timmons – piano
• Bob Cranshaw – bass
• Albert “Tootie” Heath (3-5, 8) drums
• Louis Hayes (1, 2, 6, 7) – drums

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