Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder Format:LP - Black Vinyl this is Dead Moon at

this is Dead Moon at their most savage and intense

with tracks about American politics

Faced with a difficult task

of serendipity

Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder Format:LP - Black Vinyl this is Dead Moon atCarried by its almost impossibly infectious eponymous opening track, The Sidewinder helped foreshadow the sounds of boogaloo and soul jazz with its healthy R&B influence and Latin tinge. While the rest of the album retreats to a more conventional hard bop sound, Morgan's compositions are forward thinking and universally solid. Only 25 at the time of its release, Morgan was accomplished (and perhaps cocky) enough to speak of mentoring the great Joe