19 Original Albums on 10 CDs. CD 1: Indeed, Introducing Lee Morgan with Hank Mobley's Quintet; CD 2: Hank Mobley with Donald Byrd and Lee Morgan, Lee Morgan Sextet; CD 3: Volume III, A Blowing Session; CD 4: City Lights, Bleu Train; CD 5: Candy, Lee Morgan Peckin'Time; CD 6: The Cooker, Leeway; CD 7: The Young Lions, Take Twelve; CD 8: Here's Lee Morgan, Expoobident; CD 9: Jimmy Smith's House Party, Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers – Moanin, Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers - A Night In Tunisia
The trumpeter Lee Morgan (1938-1972) will always be associated with his hit "The Sidewinder." As a wonderful musician, he had already made a remarkable debut in Dizzy Gillespie's Big Band at the age of 18, and the Blue Note label had immediately signed him. Remarkably, he had his first session with Hank Mobley at the Savoy and one day later with Rudy van Gelder. From the sometimes rather routine recording sessions with a typical quintet formation in this crucial and difficult era of hard bop, Morgan's albums stood out from the beginning, not only because of his phenomenal technique, which he always put at the service of the music, but also in the selection of his musicians and instruments. He then began to write his own music, but initially relied on composers like Benny Golson, who played with him for a long time with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers.