Album: Search For The New Land Year: 1964 Label: Blue Note Grant Green - guitar Herbie Hancock - piano Billy Higgins - drums Lee Morgan - trumpet Wayne Shorter - tenor sax Reggie Workman - bass
Jeremy McGuire I had no idea how Lee Morgan was until I saw the documentary, "I called him Morgan." It's like trying a new flavor in my ears. I'm glad you saw it and enjoyed it as much as I did too.
brandon poindexter, I had already known Lee's story but I was shocked with the documentary anyway. whatta beautiful soul and talent, whatta fate! to blow one's mind!
I just saw his documentary as well. I totally agree about this musical piece being the backdrop for the film. It’s eery and deep, and it affected me greatly. I was so moved. So sad that his life was cut short at such a young age.
can you believe it, Cal V Thomas, a while ago when I received the notification about your reply, I was with a friend on fb commenting exactly on Morgan's talent and death??? omg, I got goosebumps now! I'm reading his bio by Jeffrey S. McMillan, "DelightfuLee" and I get miserable reading it, I mean, Lee could have done so much more, he was so absurdly talented and full of life, oh gosh! I suffer with all that story, I do suffer. he was adorable. what a loss for us all! I suffer for Lee, for Wes, for Clifford, Bill, Chet, Bird, LaFaro, Desmond... all those cats oh Lord, I suffer. they were supposed to live much more than any mere mortal.
I was fortunate to be born & raised in Detroit & came of age celebrating the Motown sound & everything it symbolized. While in high school, 1968-1971, I came across a forward-thinking FM radio station out of Windsor, Canada (CJON?). Beginning at midnight, they played only pure jazz & blues (e.g., essential recordings by Lee Morgan). Discovering this music back then made an immediate & profound impact on me. It has shaped my worldview & my “search for the new land” ever since. The journey continues….
Bought this album last week and, though, it has only 5 songs on it, it literally took me the whole week to finish. And that's only b/c I kept going back again to this song, to Mr. Kenyatta and Melancholee - I didn't even listen to Melancholee until the 4th day. I loved every song. Morgan wrote all the compositions for this album and (I checked online) he was 26 years old at the time. This album is compelling material - it's my first Lee album and I immediately ranked it with Joe Henderson's Page One (another favorite of mine) and they sit together on my shelf. I bought 3 other albums by Lee. He was brilliant and I hate seeing people say things like "it's sad he passed away so young". That's bullshit! It's remarkable he accomplished so much, at such a young age, stood and shared a stage with Jazz Legends and stood as their equal. Fuck the pity and sadness. It's a life to be celebrated! He did more than most men do in an entire lifetime.
Lee Morgan didn't sit on the stage with kazz legends, he was a jazz legend! A virtuosic musician. One of the best, if not the best, jazz trumpeters of all time.
I mean the line up on this album, at the top of their game and all of them were really young, in their 20s, Herbie, Wayne Shorter, Grant Green (and I'm not a guitar fan, lol) are in rare form. Billy Higgins on the drums. All masters.
Man I was in high school went he was killed. My teacher would always have KBCA 105.1 on the FM dial in Los Angeles playing low in class. When I heard what had happen I just got up and walk out he just let me go with out a word. I know that I was outside the Light House in 1970 when he played so I was there with some of you on the Pier. Lee Morgan will always live on because I will never forget his music.
Tyrone, you really got to hear music well outside of The Lighthouse - I came there a little later on, but as long as you were cool they'd let you listen outside if you weren't old enough to get it.
I got a copy of 'The Gigolo' when I was 17, not long after he was killed. It completely changed my approach to the trumpet, which I have followed to this day. His lyricism, and his writing were incredible, and every time I pick up my horn I do what I can to channel Lee Morgan.
haunted haunted haunted by this opening number of documentary :I called him Morgan...watched 5 times in one week..will again...he resurrected jazz from death in the sixties...and made it new and relevant again...lives on....and on...
Well, jazz was not dead in the 1960s! It was going through an evolution, granted. But dead, no way! Duke Ellington and Count Basie were still alive. John Coltrane created a tidal shift in the art form, while Charles Mingus was creating music and dealing with some serious housing issues. Less McCann and Eddie Harris were stirring up crowds at home and abroad. Miles Davis was leading one of his great ensembles, one that included both Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter. I do remember Lee Morgan being concerned about the fact that jazz was not receiving the public acclaim it deserved. I recall reading something about him and a few other musicians (the still-living tenor saxophonist Billy Harper could have been one of them) crashing the studio of WNET, the public broadcasting station in New York City, and demanding airtime. It was like the early ACT-UP people with the AIDS movement demanding airtime, but 10 or so years earlier. I also remember Dr. Billy Taylor creating Jazzmobile in the 1960s to bring jazz to public school children in New York City. I was in the third grade when he performed with Frank Wess and other musicians. Some of us would grow to enjoy hard bop, modal jazz, avant garde jazz, Latin jazz, and the big band era.
This song is so genius the way it holds and keeps you warm like a blanket at the same time gives your spirit wings allowing it to fly. Well atleast that's how it makes me feel.
I feel like that every black man women and child around the globe sailing back to Africa being welcome back home listen to the end of the song as we embrace to watch the sun rise.everytime i close my eyes hearing the greatness of this masterpiece.
Hard to believe I once had this in vinyl and my mom wanted me to throw it away! Thankfully one of my brothers kept it and a bunch of other Atlantic, Blue Note, Impulse, Milestone, and Prestige records! A collection that hopefully one day will end up at LIncoln Center, the Schomberg Center, or some part of the Smithsonian.
I put this album, with its lineup of MASTERS, in my top 10 Jazz albums of all time. Lee Morgan distinguished himself from great players like Hubbard by compositions like Search For The New Land. This was the clean Lee Morgan, recovered from his drug addiction(s). This is one magnificent album, start through finish!
Blue Note doesn't get any better than this shining example of the dynamic 1960's in Jazz. It all changed in 1969 with Miles Davis. 1964 is a vintage year for the Jazz world!
Yes, and while my peers of that time were crazy for the Beatles, I was heavy into jazz. I never missed an issue of Downbeat magazine. Loved to do the blindfold test!
You've got me there! A little before my time for Jazz, which I only discovered in 1971-72. I missed so much, but did get to know and spend time with Hank Mobley before he passed. Sweet man who died too soon.
Curt Rayvis, Better late than never! :-) How cool that you knew Hank Mobley! He was another jazz great. I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area in the mid-70's to early 80's, so I had the pleasure of catching quite a few jazz masters including Art Blakey, Kenny Burrell, Jimmy Smith and others. There was a club in San Francisco's North Beach, Keystone Korner where all the artists would headline for at least 3 or 4 nights. It was such an exciting time. Was very sad when Keystone closed and the 24 hour jazz station KJAZ changed ownership and its format. Great memories though.
It's so interesting to hear Grant Green on here, he seems to add a crystal chillness to the whole thing. I love when his solo comes in, it kind of slows it all down. Also Reggie Workman is slaying.
Awesome work by Lee Morgan, Grant Green, Herbie Hancock, and Wayne Shorter! Reggie Workman and Smiling Billy Higgins underneath like a heartbeat and pulse! I love Herbie Hancock's solo on this; it always makes me think beautiful thoughts.
In 1972 Doug Carn's band featuring his wife Jean Carn were the first artists to play live at Slugs since Lee Morgan's tragic killing...they played a vocal version of 'Search for the New Land' when suddenly the lights dimmed and all present felt touched by the benevolent spirit of Edward Lee. The entire band saw this as a vindication of their performance by the late great Trumpet maestro. Doug said he was energised through this experience for the remainder of his career True story !
When you watch the documentary I Called him Morgan for the second time or more this track is the immediate opening and it takes you right to the last session or the part about the night at Slugs for a moment. Undoubtedly would have been the GOAT My personal favorite trumpet player
This is such beauty and grace. Lee Morgan's honesty and truth are prevalent in this composition. The beginning feels like a maze and then there are steady parts that feel like a triumphant trumpet; then, there are 'lows' in the song that feel like 'overwhelming phases of melancholy,' those transitions feel like a 'troubled trumpet;' Lee Morgan wanted sobriety and peace; and was happiest when he was playing and composing. Yet, to be that brilliant; and to be so young....whew whee....and to feel so 'unloved...' Wow! How he tells the story of brilliance in the midst of contradiction and adversity. His habits, likely, formed from boredom; and frustration that so many people were so lacking and shallow. There is not too much known about his family; and his energy on a certain level reminds of DMX; Malik B......Hip Hop and Jazz are clearly the rawest and 'realest' musical genres and to me....the finest genres on the planet. Yet, there would be no other genres to pull from had it not been for Blues; and the spirituals.... I watch the film repeatedly; and discover something new about humanity every time. Lee Morgan was so talented....Incrediby talented; And...so was Helen....so brilliant and so bright!
I like this tune very much. For me it is very reminiscent of Coltrane's Alabama, recorded a year earlier. I was honestly surprised no one else mentioned that in the comments.
There was undoubtedly a political and social undercurrent to many compositions by jazz musicians during the 1960s. "Alabama" was Coltrane's statement on the September 15, 1963 terrorist attack on the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. It is a reminder that out of despair can come hope and change. "Search for the New Land" may be in its own way be a call for hope and change as well. There were many African nations that were securing political independence during this time. Somewhat similarly there was the social upheaval in this country that led many to search for a new way of thinking and living. "Mr. Kenyatta" is not so subtle. It's a direct reference to the Kenyan leader of that time, as was Morgan's "Angela" a reference to Angela Davis. "In What Direction Are You Headed?" is also a politically-laced title.
I totally agree...the chord progression is very similar. But Alabama was the current commentary....Search For New Land was the solution.....the mood, the title....the complete composition points solely towards forward movement. -- Even the solos of each of those giants imply the part we all must play -- if were to get out of "Alabama" so to speak!
Want to get away? Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage Lee Morgan - Search For The New Land Bobby Hutcherson - Verse (especially Joe Henderson's brief, soaring solo)
This composition must be unique - or almost - in jazz history. Stating the theme rubato, playing it once in triple meter, and repeating it rubato after each solo is a very unusual procedure. The solos and the groove are wonderful, but it is the structure of the whole performance that sets this tune apart.
@@edwardsmith8814 Rubato Is A Musical Term Meaning Not In Any Particular Set Tempo Or Rhythm Like For Example In The Introduction To "Behind The Rain" By Herb Alpert And Tijuana Brass.
Lee Morgan's music found my soul by accident. I turned on a show call SOUL on ch.13 in NYC and Lee Morgan played "Angela" on flugelhorn that night. Blew my head wide open. He is ( I don't say was) the pinnacle pf jazz trumpet. I rate no one higher and I'm crazy about Miles. He speaks to us today through our ears and from our souls we connect with his soul and will do so forever though his music just like all the Dieties of Jazz!!!
I bow to this master. I have been following jazz for a while and know all the masters - Coltrane, Miles et al. Heard of Lee Morgan, but also got to know more about him from the netflix "I called him Morgan". America, why don't you appreciate these your greats? Shame.
Just think. The musicians on this date moved in and out of each other's sessions. Add guys like Jackie McLean, Bobby Hutcherson, Joe Henderson and many others. An amazing collection of musicians at Blue Note.
Thank you Lee Morgan for all the great music you left behind. You are my favorite trumpeter player. No one can top you! Gone 47 years now. It is still hard to believe. I hope you are happy where you are.
Miles was the more important musical figure because he was at the vanguard of so many movements, but, as a trumpet player, both Lee and, certainly Clifford surpassed him
so original, when I first heard search for the new land it sounded in my mind just like this',what a great tine, not like most jazz tune this on is very special,I also really like this combination very much. one of the best from lee morgan!!
people keep going back and listening to all the great jazz of the past it will keep your mind busy for years and i mean back to 1930's ,treat your mind.
the first time I heard this tune I was with my band mate and he was showing me this tune. we were both tripping on LSD just sitting/laying analysing this song and taking it all in. the moment I was having while listening to this was so profound I could even say that it was a spiritual experience. Thank you Lee Morgan and all the amazing Jazz performers in this tune for such a beautiful composition
esquibelle oh trust me I didn't need it to enjoy this piece whatsoever. I'm just,saying that when i first heard it I happened to be under that influence hahaha
Great L.P from a great period in Jazz history.Well I am going to be a little biased and say every period in Jazz history is very special in its own right.Have a blessed and wonderful life to all
The Blue Note era from the mid to late 1950s through the mid to late 1960s was special. An effort should be made to put the recordings in the Smithsonian because they are part of the American national treasure. The Van Gelder studio should be made part of the Smithsonian also. It is the source of these recordings that are the essence of modern American history.
Lee and Wayne - can it get better?! Shorter brought tears to my eyes with Weather Report; sadly, I wasn't born when this was recorded...but with Herbie on piano, the deal is sealed...this is how grown men play music.
Great music by 6 brilliant musicians. Belated thanks for posting. And here's to Blue Note and Rudy Gelder for preserving this precious and beloved kind of music for us.
Always liked the way Jazz musicians were photographed. After seeing so many album covers and sleeves during the 70's, I made it my mission in life to be photographed at times in similar veins. Up to and including my military ID cards. Those guys are probably still wondering to this day "what in the world is he trying to do?"
That is insane, I can only hope that if I look between the cracks of modern music I might find a musician/group as breathtaking as this and than do my best to see them in the flesh....copious...copious amounts envy
The beauty of this music is its ability to tell the story without uttering a word. The musical conversation is a form of kinesis that requires mastery of the instrument and one's own imagination!
Could you imagine if Rock n Roll had as much fluidity in band line ups for its records. Grant Green - guitar, Herbie Hancock - piano, Billy Higgins - drums, Lee Morgan - trumpet, Wayne Shorter - tenor sax Reggie Workman - bass. Every Lee M record is a collection of masters pushing the music forward to New Lands.
This piece is the embodiment of black classical music. A stunning masterpiece.
I just saw " I Called Him Morgan" and loved it. This song perfectly serves as the theme for the movie. Go see it!
Jeremy McGuire
I had no idea how Lee Morgan was until I saw the documentary, "I called him Morgan." It's like trying a new flavor in my ears. I'm glad you saw it and enjoyed it as much as I did too.
I heard this song on the documentary as well, I had to search for it on TH-cam. Truly an inspiring song.
brandon poindexter, I had already known Lee's story but I was shocked with the documentary anyway. whatta beautiful soul and talent, whatta fate! to blow one's mind!
I just saw his documentary as well. I totally agree about this musical piece being the backdrop for the film. It’s eery and deep, and it affected me greatly. I was so moved. So sad that his life was cut short at such a young age.
can you believe it, Cal V Thomas, a while ago when I received the notification about your reply, I was with a friend on fb commenting exactly on Morgan's talent and death??? omg, I got goosebumps now!
I'm reading his bio by Jeffrey S. McMillan, "DelightfuLee" and I get miserable reading it, I mean, Lee could have done so much more, he was so absurdly talented and full of life, oh gosh! I suffer with all that story, I do suffer. he was adorable. what a loss for us all! I suffer for Lee, for Wes, for Clifford, Bill, Chet, Bird, LaFaro, Desmond... all those cats oh Lord, I suffer. they were supposed to live much more than any mere mortal.
I was fortunate to be born & raised in Detroit & came of age celebrating the Motown sound & everything it symbolized. While in high school, 1968-1971, I came across a forward-thinking FM radio station out of Windsor, Canada (CJON?). Beginning at midnight, they played only pure jazz & blues (e.g., essential recordings by Lee Morgan). Discovering this music back then made an immediate & profound impact on me. It has shaped my worldview & my “search for the new land” ever since. The journey continues….
That's beautiful ❤
Bought this album last week and, though, it has only 5 songs on it, it literally took me the whole week to finish. And that's only b/c I kept going back again to this song, to Mr. Kenyatta and Melancholee - I didn't even listen to Melancholee until the 4th day. I loved every song.
Morgan wrote all the compositions for this album and (I checked online) he was 26 years old at the time. This album is compelling material - it's my first Lee album and I immediately ranked it with Joe Henderson's Page One (another favorite of mine) and they sit together on my shelf.
I bought 3 other albums by Lee. He was brilliant and I hate seeing people say things like "it's sad he passed away so young". That's bullshit! It's remarkable he accomplished so much, at such a young age, stood and shared a stage with Jazz Legends and stood as their equal. Fuck the pity and sadness. It's a life to be celebrated! He did more than most men do in an entire lifetime.
amen!
Lee Morgan didn't sit on the stage with kazz legends, he was a jazz legend! A virtuosic musician. One of the best, if not the best, jazz trumpeters of all time.
I mean the line up on this album, at the top of their game and all of them were really young, in their 20s, Herbie, Wayne Shorter, Grant Green (and I'm not a guitar fan, lol) are in rare form. Billy Higgins on the drums. All masters.
@@gailgentry1963 Billy Higgins one of the few musicians to bridge the gap among bebop, bop, and free.
This is Blue Notes A List... Dream Team
I pity the 66 and counting soulless choads who have disliked this masterpiece. Sad.
Man I was in high school went he was killed. My teacher would always have KBCA 105.1 on the FM dial in Los Angeles playing low in class. When I heard what had happen I just got up and walk out he just let me go with out a word. I know that I was outside the Light House in 1970 when he played so I was there with some of you on the Pier. Lee Morgan will always live on because I will never forget his music.
Tyrone, you really got to hear music well outside of The Lighthouse - I came there a little later on, but as long as you were cool they'd let you listen outside if you weren't old enough to get it.
..tragic story..however when his lady finally spoke after many years of silence..you understand
I got a copy of 'The Gigolo' when I was 17, not long after he was killed. It completely changed my approach to the trumpet, which I have followed to this day. His lyricism, and his writing were incredible, and every time I pick up my horn I do what I can to channel Lee Morgan.
@@wel722 lee in 66..67 and his last one with bobby humphrey on flute .. billy harper sax. mabern piano ..merritt bass roker drums
Had the same type of teacher at Centennial, same time frame!
One of the greatest jazz trumpeters ever. Left this world way too soon.
I started listening to Lee Morgan in 1971. Ironically enough his “Last Session” album is what got me hooked. I’ve been listening to him ever since.
haunted haunted haunted by this opening number of documentary :I called him Morgan...watched 5 times in one week..will again...he resurrected jazz from death in the sixties...and made it new and relevant again...lives on....and on...
Well, jazz was not dead in the 1960s! It was going through an evolution, granted. But dead, no way! Duke Ellington and Count Basie were still alive. John Coltrane created a tidal shift in the art form, while Charles Mingus was creating music and dealing with some serious housing issues. Less McCann and Eddie Harris were stirring up crowds at home and abroad. Miles Davis was leading one of his great ensembles, one that included both Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter.
I do remember Lee Morgan being concerned about the fact that jazz was not receiving the public acclaim it deserved. I recall reading something about him and a few other musicians (the still-living tenor saxophonist Billy Harper could have been one of them) crashing the studio of WNET, the public broadcasting station in New York City, and demanding airtime. It was like the early ACT-UP people with the AIDS movement demanding airtime, but 10 or so years earlier.
I also remember Dr. Billy Taylor creating Jazzmobile in the 1960s to bring jazz to public school children in New York City. I was in the third grade when he performed with Frank Wess and other musicians. Some of us would grow to enjoy hard bop, modal jazz, avant garde jazz, Latin jazz, and the big band era.
Can music move mountains?Perhaps.Can music move souls? Absolutely!
Lee Morgan was one of the best for this genre of jazz!
Great song and album. 38 people need to search for a new land.
This song is so genius the way it holds and keeps you warm like a blanket at the same time gives your spirit wings allowing it to fly. Well atleast that's how it makes me feel.
I called him Morgan... brought me here 😍😢
My goodness, Lee is outstanding. His approach to music is out there.
I feel like that every black man women and child around the globe sailing back to Africa being welcome back home listen to the end of the song as we embrace to watch the sun rise.everytime i close my eyes hearing the greatness of this masterpiece.
We were the Aboriginals of North America btw
How could anyone give this a thumbs down? They must have tin ears.
😂tin ears indeed
People who don't like this aren't true Jazz music lovers. They are the ones who think Kenny G. is jazz.
Tin ears and perhap no soul.
Remember, there are people on TH-cam so depressed all they do is that, so dont mind those, vibe with the music.
@@nysaxman Lmao
Greg Lewis-Lee Morgan's best album. Search for the New Land is one of those "once in a lifetime" compositions that one never tires of listening to.
Marry me Shelby Lewis! I couldn't agree more.
Hard to believe I once had this in vinyl and my mom wanted me to throw it away! Thankfully one of my brothers kept it and a bunch of other Atlantic, Blue Note, Impulse, Milestone, and Prestige records! A collection that hopefully one day will end up at LIncoln Center, the Schomberg Center, or some part of the Smithsonian.
agree
The true meaning of jazz, runs chills up your back. Great, thats all i can say.
they called it black classical music...they never liked the word jazz.
Black classical indeed
@@michellewind8097Who is this “they”?
This might be the pinnacle of Jazz.
Gorgeous piece of music. Lee Morgan left us some great tunes
Another great tune he did is: "You Go to My Head". . . (IMO)
I put this album, with its lineup of MASTERS, in my top 10 Jazz albums of all time. Lee Morgan distinguished himself from great players like Hubbard by compositions like Search For The New Land. This was the clean Lee Morgan, recovered from his drug addiction(s). This is one magnificent album, start through finish!
Blue Note doesn't get any better than this shining example of the dynamic 1960's in Jazz. It all changed in 1969 with Miles Davis. 1964 is a vintage year for the Jazz world!
Yes, and while my peers of that time were crazy for the Beatles, I was heavy into jazz. I never missed an issue of Downbeat magazine. Loved to do the blindfold test!
You've got me there! A little before my time for Jazz, which I only discovered in 1971-72. I missed so much, but did get to know and spend time with Hank Mobley before he passed. Sweet man who died too soon.
Curt Rayvis, Better late than never! :-) How cool that you knew Hank Mobley! He was another jazz great. I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area in the mid-70's to early 80's, so I had the pleasure of catching quite a few jazz masters including Art Blakey, Kenny Burrell, Jimmy Smith and others. There was a club in San Francisco's North Beach, Keystone Korner where all the artists would headline for at least 3 or 4 nights. It was such an exciting time. Was very sad when Keystone closed and the 24 hour jazz station KJAZ changed ownership and its format. Great memories though.
Gwen Lorenz
Happy Happy 81st Birthday Baby Boy! You were the best!!!!
14 ppl who disliked are miserable. Lee Morgan is everything
Nikita Thomas yes indeed
It's up to 57 now, and they are all pathetic.
There may be the people who don't like the album for whatever reason, but take at a positive angle and look at the people who do.
EVERYTHING!
They don't know or understand real Jazz, forgive them for they are confused !!!!!!!!
It's hard to believe this was recorded in 1964, it sounds a decade ahead of it's time, and marvelous at that!
Made for your soul; transpires emotion; into the spiritual.
Well said sir.
So true
This is an epic journey
all I can say this is a Classic by any standards I play this when Im driving all the time !
" I Called Him Morgan" Great music and documentary
Heard this song when I was 14. FOURTEEN!!! I was entranced. Loved it and went looking to buy the album the next day. (Still have it!)
I'm not here because "i called him Morgan". That being said this is a masterpiece.
North Buster ...Thank God!!! However, many of them are.
Damn!!! Is 2021 And We Are Still " In Search Of A New Land " Since 1972.
Speechless...........
It's so interesting to hear Grant Green on here, he seems to add a crystal chillness to the whole thing. I love when his solo comes in, it kind of slows it all down. Also Reggie Workman is slaying.
Two words...COLD BLOODED. I love this song.
Awesome work by Lee Morgan, Grant Green, Herbie Hancock, and Wayne Shorter! Reggie Workman and Smiling Billy Higgins underneath like a heartbeat and pulse! I love Herbie Hancock's solo on this; it always makes me think beautiful thoughts.
One of Herbies greatest solos if you ask me! Pretty surprised I even was of what he demonstrates here.
I'm going to get and send it to my son 🙂😅
Omg man this might be herbies most amazing solo i think its just out lf this world, litterally sounds other worldly
smiling Billy Mr Blue Note
In 1972 Doug Carn's band featuring his wife Jean Carn were the first artists to play live at Slugs since Lee Morgan's tragic killing...they played a vocal version of 'Search for the New Land' when suddenly the lights dimmed and all present felt touched by the benevolent spirit of Edward Lee.
The entire band saw this as a vindication of their performance by the late great Trumpet maestro.
Doug said he was energised through this experience for the remainder of his career
True story !
Parts of this piece reminds me of Coltrane's Love Supreme. It's kind of got that feel. Great job by Mr. Morgan and company.
Wayne Shorter, RIP.
Killer piece of jazz
When you watch the documentary I Called him Morgan for the second time or more this track is the immediate opening and it takes you right to the last session or the part about the night at Slugs for a moment. Undoubtedly would have been the GOAT My personal favorite trumpet player
This is such beauty and grace. Lee Morgan's honesty and truth are prevalent in this composition. The beginning feels like a maze and then there are steady parts that feel like a triumphant trumpet; then, there are 'lows' in the song that feel like 'overwhelming phases of melancholy,' those transitions feel like a 'troubled trumpet;' Lee Morgan wanted sobriety and peace; and was happiest when he was playing and composing. Yet, to be that brilliant; and to be so young....whew whee....and to feel so 'unloved...' Wow! How he tells the story of brilliance in the midst of contradiction and adversity. His habits, likely, formed from boredom; and frustration that so many people were so lacking and shallow. There is not too much known about his family; and his energy on a certain level reminds of DMX; Malik B......Hip Hop and Jazz are clearly the rawest and 'realest' musical genres and to me....the finest genres on the planet. Yet, there would be no other genres to pull from had it not been for Blues; and the spirituals.... I watch the film repeatedly; and discover something new about humanity every time. Lee Morgan was so talented....Incrediby talented; And...so was Helen....so brilliant and so bright!
..simply put..one of the greatest compositions ever recorded
Great documentary.
Diffinitely a Masterpiece !
Every time I listen to his music, I never want to stop. It’s very thinkable!
I like this tune very much. For me it is very reminiscent of Coltrane's Alabama, recorded a year earlier. I was honestly surprised no one else mentioned that in the comments.
There was undoubtedly a political and social undercurrent to many compositions by jazz musicians during the 1960s. "Alabama" was Coltrane's statement on the September 15, 1963 terrorist attack on the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. It is a reminder that out of despair can come hope and change.
"Search for the New Land" may be in its own way be a call for hope and change as well. There were many African nations that were securing political independence during this time. Somewhat similarly there was the social upheaval in this country that led many to search for a new way of thinking and living.
"Mr. Kenyatta" is not so subtle. It's a direct reference to the Kenyan leader of that time, as was Morgan's "Angela" a reference to Angela Davis. "In What Direction Are You Headed?" is also a politically-laced title.
Alabama is my favorite track on Live at Birdland. This does have a very similar structure.
I totally agree...the chord progression is very similar. But Alabama was the current commentary....Search For New Land was the solution.....the mood, the title....the complete composition points solely towards forward movement. -- Even the solos of each of those giants imply the part we all must play -- if were to get out of "Alabama" so to speak!
Wonderful music, puts today's so called jazz musicians to shame.
Search For The New Land is as important as Kind of Blue!
for real! It's too bad Blue Note needed to make money (boogaloo) because this was years ahead of Miles
I agree, it is inspirational and spiritual
God this is beauty personified
Want to get away?
Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
Lee Morgan - Search For The New Land
Bobby Hutcherson - Verse (especially Joe Henderson's brief, soaring solo)
a very sensitive way to tell a story
This composition must be unique - or almost - in jazz history. Stating the theme rubato, playing it once in triple meter, and repeating it rubato after each solo is a very unusual procedure. The solos and the groove are wonderful, but it is the structure of the whole performance that sets this tune apart.
I like Herbie Hancock's solo. It's one of the most pensive and yet searing piano solos I've ever heard.
yes it is unique, read my post and tell me what you think of my intepretation.
Question what is rubato?
I don't know what you just said, but I like the song.
@@edwardsmith8814 Rubato Is A Musical Term Meaning Not In Any Particular Set Tempo Or Rhythm Like For Example In The Introduction To "Behind The Rain" By Herb Alpert And Tijuana Brass.
My fav song ever
Lee Morgan's music found my soul by accident. I turned on a show call SOUL on ch.13 in NYC and Lee Morgan played "Angela" on flugelhorn that night. Blew my head wide open. He is ( I don't say was) the pinnacle pf jazz trumpet. I rate no one higher and I'm crazy about Miles. He speaks to us today through our ears and from our souls we connect with his soul and will do so forever though his music just like all the Dieties of Jazz!!!
I bow to this master. I have been following jazz for a while and know all the masters - Coltrane, Miles et al. Heard of Lee Morgan, but also got to know more about him from the netflix "I called him Morgan". America, why don't you appreciate these your greats? Shame.
The genius of this piece...
This man was everything ❤️
Share the Love , Lee Morgan.. Search for the new land..
Tears.
Just think. The musicians on this date moved in and out of each other's sessions. Add guys like Jackie McLean, Bobby Hutcherson, Joe Henderson and many others. An amazing collection of musicians at Blue Note.
Grant Green makes this to set the mood. Pre-the boogaloo
Taking me to a new land, oh baby!
I recently found out about this guy through his documentary an I love it!
This just made me want to listen to this again.
Thank you Lee Morgan for all the great music you left behind. You are my favorite trumpeter player. No one can top you! Gone 47 years now. It is still hard to believe. I hope you are happy where you are.
Jazz is the lover of my heart and soul now and forever more oh how I truly love her so.
What a fun love to share...
simply the greatest trumpet player ever Morgan rocks R.I.P
Jon-Paul Ellis
I've got lee at #2 behind only Clifford Brown.
Dr. Kevin Moore Hard to tell, but it's between them two.
+Aviv Schifrin, if they both hadn't died so young do you think one of them would of over shadowed Miles??
Miles was the more important musical figure because he was at the vanguard of so many movements, but, as a trumpet player, both Lee and, certainly Clifford surpassed him
+Dr. Kevin Moore Excellent take on these trumpet players. Miles was such a visionary.
so original, when I first heard search for the new land it sounded in my mind just like this',what a great tine, not like most jazz tune this on is very special,I also really like this combination very much.
one of the best from lee morgan!!
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I could just listen to the intro for Herbie's solo all day on loop. so raw. 12:08-12:18
Damn right! It is so beautiful. That chordal vibe takes me outside of the solar system every time.
people keep going back and listening to all the great jazz of the past it will keep your mind busy for years and i mean back to 1930's ,treat your mind.
Lee Morgan Awesome!!
the first time I heard this tune I was with my band mate and he was showing me this tune. we were both tripping on LSD just sitting/laying analysing this song and taking it all in. the moment I was having while listening to this was so profound I could even say that it was a spiritual experience. Thank you Lee Morgan and all the amazing Jazz performers in this tune for such a beautiful composition
Lee is eternal in the morning sunshine ~ no chemicals required
esquibelle oh trust me I didn't need it to enjoy this piece whatsoever. I'm just,saying that when i first heard it I happened to be under that influence hahaha
esquibelle Listen to this on LSD and let me know how it goes.
One of my favorite Blue Note albums!
Great L.P from a great period in Jazz history.Well I am going to be a little biased and say every period in Jazz history is very special in its own right.Have a blessed and wonderful life to all
The Blue Note era from the mid to late 1950s through the mid to late 1960s was special. An effort should be made to put the recordings in the Smithsonian because they are part of the American national treasure. The Van Gelder studio should be made part of the Smithsonian also. It is the source of these recordings that are the essence of modern American history.
Lee and Wayne - can it get better?! Shorter brought tears to my eyes with Weather Report; sadly, I wasn't born when this was recorded...but with Herbie on piano, the deal is sealed...this is how grown men play music.
Wicked cool
I've found music/love again.
Love Grant's solo but Herbie wins for me, soars away with a beautiful piece of musicality. 16 minutes with my eyes closed!
Yes, Herbie Hancock's solo is awesome!
*15
I’m great at parties.
Hear, hear. Hancock's solo wins hands down
Yes. Like Tyner here. Crisp, energetic, smooth, 'soaring'.
Now,this is what i call jazz,i like it,thank you!
Great music by 6 brilliant musicians. Belated thanks for posting. And here's to Blue Note and Rudy Gelder for preserving this precious and beloved kind of music for us.
Man this is really good sound!
je ne connaissais pas, dieu, que c'est beau, merci !
Always liked the way Jazz musicians were photographed. After seeing so many album covers and sleeves during the 70's,
I made it my mission in life to be photographed at times in similar veins. Up to and including my military ID cards. Those guys are probably still wondering to this day "what in the world is he trying to do?"
Fell in love with this the first time I heard it, 10, 20...well, a long time ago. Real jazz.
I was young,WE were. Like 66, What an impact this music had, We were born 47,and the postbop(as I name it)grabbed me. Høvisk hilsen fra Dag
JazzTuna:
Thanks for the share - what a joy to listen to!
So it's '63... February and we have electric guitar in a Jazz ensemble.
This must be ground breaking?
Great stuff!!!
Lee Morgan... just finished watching documentary on his life, and crazy death. Truly the End of a Beginning.
were can I see this doc. on Lee?
@@flgmusicproductions it was on Netflix not sure if still on there tho. Just google it
@@porterhall27 I gotta check that out! This & several other of his albums were mine while he was still alive (yes, I still have them)
This is an awesome lineup karma Legends all
One word. Awesome!
Fantastic, swings so hard! Grant Green awesome!!
That is insane, I can only hope that if I look between the cracks of modern music I might find a musician/group as breathtaking as this and than do my best to see them in the flesh....copious...copious amounts envy
I remember this masterpiece when father played this many years ago and great memories its all coming back. I know greatness and this is it 👍🏿✊🏿
The beauty of this music is its ability to tell the story without uttering a word. The musical conversation is a form of kinesis that requires mastery of the instrument and one's own imagination!
Listen Philly had a serious musical spirit than... and now...retrace the steps
Never knew Lee Morgan was also from our city. Always respect people even more when I find out Philly birthed them.
Some many it's crazy! John Gilmore Benny Golson Jimmy Heath Michael Brecker and so many more...
Unbelievable group, just look at the lineup
Timeless!
wonderful build
Could you imagine if Rock n Roll had as much fluidity in band line ups for its records. Grant Green - guitar, Herbie Hancock - piano, Billy Higgins - drums, Lee Morgan - trumpet, Wayne Shorter - tenor sax Reggie Workman - bass. Every Lee M record is a collection of masters pushing the music forward to New Lands.
Basically everyone on the lineup is a musical genius
Basically everyone on the lineup is a musical genius
Thank you so much for this masterpeice
Thank for posting the complete composition. I've been hoping someone would.