Lee Morgan Sextet

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Serving as the sophomore release for the phenomenal eighteen-year-old trumpet prodigy, this blistering sextet date is firmly anchored by the remarkably complex compositions of Benny Golson. The exceptionally dense, three-horn arrangements push the rapidly maturing soloist into fiercely technical, heavily blues-inflected improvisations alongside Hank Mobley and Kenny Rodgers. The deeply swinging, impeccably organized session immediately cemented the young leader as a profound, primary architect of the evolving hard bop idiom.