Lee Morgan
Trumpet Solo on
The Way You Look Tonight

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Lee Morgan's trumpet solo is the second of 4 solos on this recording, following Johnny Griffin's tenor sax and followed by Hank Mobley on tenor sax. Spanning two choruses of the 64-bar AABA form at a brisk 334 BPM with a swing feel in F, the solo runs approximately 1:33. Lee Morgan follows with two trumpet choruses that display the remarkable facility and brash confidence of a musician still in his late teens. Lee Morgan was 18 to 19 years old at the time of this 1957 recording. "The Way You Look Tonight" is a popular standard with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Dorothy Fields, composed in 1936 for the RKO film Swing Time.

Lee Morgan was 18 to 19 years old at the time.