Lee Morgan
Trumpet Solo on
Boy, What A Night

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Lee Morgan's trumpet solo is the 2nd of 3 on this recording, following Joe Henderson's tenor sax and followed by Barry Harris on piano. Spanning two choruses of the 12-bar Blues form at an up-tempo 218 BPM with a swing feel in B♭, the solo runs approximately 1:20. Written as a 12-bar blues in B-flat at approximately 220 bpm, the tune strips away the Latin and funk influences heard elsewhere on the album to present Morgan's group in a pure hard bop blues setting. Lee Morgan was 24 to 25 years old at the time of this 1963 recording.

Lee Morgan was 24 to 25 years old at the time.