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The Sidewinder is a 1964 album by the jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan, recorded at the Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, U.S. It was released on the Blue Note label as BLP 4157 (mono) and BST 84157 (stereo).

The Sidewinder
Studio album by Lee Morgan
Released	July 1964 (1964-07)[1]
Recorded	December 21, 1963
Studio	Van Gelder Studio Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Genre	Jazz, hard bop
Length	40:59
Label	Blue Note
Producer	Alfred Lion
Lee Morgan chronology
Take Twelve (1962) The Sidewinder (1964) Search for the New Land (1964)
Singles from The Sidewinder
"The Sidewinder, Parts 1 & 2" Released: mid-to-late 1964

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
Penguin Guide to Jazz	👑 [3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[4]

The title track is perhaps Morgan's all-around best-known composition; it would go on to become a jazz standard,[5] and was additionally released as a single,[6] reaching number 81 on the Billboard Hot 100 in January 1965.[7]

The album became Blue Note's best-selling record ever, breaking the previous sales record and saving the label from near bankruptcy.[8] Record producer Michael Cuscuna recalls the unexpected success: "the company issued only 4,000 copies upon release. Needless to say, they ran out of stock in three or four days. And 'The Sidewinder' became a runaway smash making the pop 100 charts." By January 1965, the album had reached No. 25 on the Billboard chart.[9] The title track was used as the music in a Chrysler television advertisement and as a theme for television shows.[10][11] At the insistence of Blue Note executives, several of Morgan's intended follow-up albums either had their release postponed or were shelved entirely so that Blue Note "could score another Sidewinder".[12] Morgan's subsequent albums would therefore attempt to approximate the format and appeal of The Sidewinder by opening with a soul-jazz boogaloo inspired composition while also attempting to capture a hard bop aesthetic.[13] This approach is said to be most noticeable on Morgan's immediate follow-up albums, including The Rumproller,[14] The Gigolo[15] and Cornbread.[16]

Reception

The Penguin Guide to Jazz selected this album as part of its suggested "Core Collection" (with a crown), calling the title track "a glorious 24-bar theme as sinuous and stinging as the beast of the title. It was both the best and worst thing that was ever to happen to Morgan before the awful events of 19 February 1972," referring to Morgan's killing at the hand of his common-law wife, Helen Moore.[17] The album was identified by Scott Yanow in his AllMusic essay "Hard Bop" as one of the 17 Essential Hard Bop Recordings.[18]

Track listing

All songs composed by Lee Morgan.

1. "The Sidewinder" – 10:25
2. "Totem Pole" – 10:11
3. "Gary's Notebook" – 6:03
4. "Boy, What a Night" – 7:30
5. "Hocus Pocus" – 6:21
6. "Totem Pole" [Alternative take] – 9:57 Bonus track on CD reissue

Personnel

• Lee Morgan – trumpet
• Joe Henderson – tenor saxophone
• Barry Harris – piano
• Bob Cranshaw – double bass
• Billy Higgins – drums

References

External links

• Helgeson, Jeff. Lee Morgan: Biography. Accessed August 13, 2007
• Leonard Feather on The Sidewinder
• NPR: Basic Jazz Record Library

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[de] The Sidewinder

The Sidewinder ist ein Jazz-Album von Lee Morgan, das am 21. Dezember 1963 aufgenommen und im folgenden Jahr auf Blue Note Records veröffentlicht wurde.

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- [en] The Sidewinder

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[es] The Sidewinder

The Sidewinder es un álbum de jazz de 1964 del trompetista Lee Morgan. El tema que da nombre al álbum es uno de los temas que dio forma al género del soul jazz, convirtiéndose en un estándar jazz. Se publicó una versión editada como sencillo. El álbum se convirtió en un éxito comercial, y una gran influencia - muchos álbumes posteriores de Lee Morgan, y otros discos de Blue Note, reprodujeron el formato de este álbum, comenzando con un blues funky seguido por varios temas hard bop.

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[ru] The Sidewinder

The Sidewinder — альбом джазового трубача Ли Моргана, записанный на студии Van Gelder Studio Энглвуд, Нью-Джерси, США. Он был выпущен на лейбле Blue Note как BLP 4157 и BST 84157.

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