Infinity [Limited]

構成数 : 1枚
合計収録時間 : 00:41:08
Personnel: Lee Morgan (trumpet); Jackie McLean (alto saxophone); Larry Willis (piano); Reggie Workman (bass); Billy Higgins (drums). Producer: Alfred Lion. Reissue producer: Michael Cuscuna. Recorded at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on November 16, 1965. Originally released on Blue Note (1091). Includes liner notes by Roy Chernus. Digitally remastered using 20-bit technology by Ron McMaster. This is part of Blue Note's Limited Edition Connoisseur series. Personnel: Lee Morgan (trumpet); Jackie McLean (alto saxophone); Larry McLean, Larry Willis (piano); Billy Higgins (drums). Liner Note Author: Roy Chernus. Recording information: New York, NY (11/16/1965); Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, NJ (11/16/1965). Photographer: Francis Wolff. Unlike some labels, Blue Note doesn't need to cobble together alternate takes, false starts or second-rate sessions to put out previously unheard material. With prolific artists like Morgan, the label recorded more than they could ever practically issue in any given year. As a result, over thirty years later, sessions like INFINITY surface. Like many other Morgan albums from the same period, it features Jackie McLean on alto and Billy Higgins on drums, compositions by Morgan (and one by McLean), and was recorded in one day at Van Gelder studios. In other words, it was conceived as a real release from the outset. In addition to Reggie Workman on bass, INFINITY also features the lesser-known Larry Willis on piano, who injects a healthy dose of down-home stylings into the alternately funky and cerebral writing. There are no forced efforts at another radio hit here: "Miss Nettie B." is the blues as drifting summer wind and "Infinity" provides room to stretch out, freed, in the words of Roy Chernus' liner notes, "from the fearsome melodic saturation and often maze-like harmonic complexity epitomized by Charlie Parker..."
録音 : ステレオ (Studio)