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Lee Morgan: ‘Lee-Way,’ 1960

This LP has just four tracks, but it’s all hard-bop prime

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Marc Myers
Aug 26, 2026
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Yesterday, I posted about an exemplary quintet fronted by Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk that recorded bebop at its peak in 1950. Ten years later, another superlative quintet, this time led by trumpeter Lee Morgan, recorded a hard-bop masterpiece: Lee-Way (Blue Note). It’s one of my favorite records by Morgan and recently was remastered on 180-gram vinyl as part of Blue Note’s Classic Vinyl series.

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