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Live at the Lighthouse (Lee Morgan album)

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Recorded
  
July 10-12, 1970

Release date
  
1970

Label
  
Blue Note Records

Artist
  
Lee Morgan

Producer
  
Francis Wolff

Genre
  
Jazz

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Length
  
73:08 (original album release) 183:47 (CD and digital version)

Live at the Lighthouse (1970)
  
The Last Session (1972)

Similar
  
Lee Morgan albums, Jazz albums

Live at the Lighthouse is a live album by jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan, released on the Blue Note label. The album features a quintet of Morgan, Bennie Maupin, Harold Mabern, Jymie Merritt, and Mickey Roker, recorded at the Lighthouse Café in Hermosa Beach, California in July of 1970. (Jack DeJohnette replaces Roker on drums on "Speedball.")

Contents

Recording of the album began on Morgan's 32nd birthday (July 10, 1970). This would be the final album released by Morgan during his lifetime; his final album, the studio recording The Last Session, would be released in May of 1972, several months after his death in February of that same year.

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Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4.5 stars, stating: "Stimulating and frequently exciting music from late in Lee Morgan's short life."

Track listings

The original 1971 release on vinyl consisted of four sides, one track per side:

  1. "Absolutions" (Merritt) - 19:40
  2. "The Beehive" (Mabern) - 16:23
  3. "Neophilia" (Maupin) - 19:05
  4. "Nommo" (Merritt) - 18:00

The 1996 CD release was expanded to include 13 tracks, which are also all available as part of the current download package:

  1. "Introduction by Lee Morgan" - 2:00
  2. "The Beehive" (Mabern) - 15:17
  3. "Absolutions" (Merritt) - 22:43
  4. "Peyote" (Maupin) - 11:23
  5. "Speedball" (Morgan) - 11:54
  6. "Nommo" (Merritt) - 17:50
  7. "Neophilia" (Maupin) - 18:59
  8. "Something Like This" (Maupin) - 13:01
  9. "I Remember Britt" (Mabern) - 14:55
  10. "Aon" (Mabern) - 13:47
  11. "Yunjanna" (Maupin) - 16:07
  12. "416 East 10th Street" (Maupin) - 12:11
  13. "The Sidewinder" (Morgan) - 13:40

Personnel

  • Lee Morgan - trumpet, flugelhorn
  • Bennie Maupin - tenor saxophone, flute, bass clarinet
  • Harold Mabern - piano
  • Jymie Merritt - electric upright bass
  • Mickey Roker - drums (except on track 5)
  • Jack DeJohnette - drums (track 5 only)

    • Songs

    1Absolutions19:40
    2The Beehive16:23
    3Neophilia19:05

    References

    Live at the Lighthouse (Lee Morgan album) Wikipedia
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