Cornbread

by Lee Morgan

Cornbread cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1967
  • Label: Blue Note
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 39:00
  • Community rating: 4.07/5 from 6 ratings

Artists on this release: Jackie McLean, Larry Ridley, Herbie Hancock, Hank Mobley, Billy Higgins

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A stellar mid-60s session from Lee Morgan, featuring an incredible lineup of Blue Note regulars. The album is best known for the beautiful and lyrical ballad 'Ceora,' a perfectly crafted piece with a gentle bossa nova inflection that has become a timeless jazz standard. It stands as a testament to the enduring power of melody and elegant form within the post-bop tradition.

Genres

Descriptors: high-energy, soulful, piercing, grooves, bluesy

Tracklist

  1. Cornbread (9:02)
  2. Our Man Higgins (8:52)
  3. Ceora (6:20)
  4. Ill Wind (7:56)
  5. Most Like Lee (6:50)

Credits

  • Lee Morgan - primary artist, trumpet, written-by
  • Jackie McLean - alto saxophone
  • Larry Ridley - bass
  • Reid Miles - design [cover], design/illustration
  • Billy Higgins - drums
  • Ira Gitler - liner notes
  • Francis Wolff - photography by [cover photo], photography
  • Herbie Hancock - piano
  • Rudy Van Gelder - recorded by [recording by]
  • Hank Mobley - tenor saxophone
  • Harold Arlen - written-by
  • Ted Koehler - written-by

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