SH Forums 45 RPM Music Matters test pressing giveaway LEE MORGAN Search For New Land!

The Music Matters Blue Note Project is generously donating one of the super rare 45 RPM test pressing two-album sets of our new mastering of the 1964 Rudy Van Gelder recording of LEE MORGAN "Search For The New Land" to our SH Forums Giveaway.

Per Joe and Ron:

Catalog Number MMBST-84169
Release Date: March 2010

Renowned in jazz ever since he emerged in the Dizzy Gillespie big band of 1956, and crowned early on as the late Clifford Brown's successor among promising young trumpeters, Lee Morgan packed a lot of living into the next 16 years. A member of arguably the finest versions of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers (playing alongside Benny Golson or Wayne Shorter), Morgan recorded regularly for Blue Note as both a leader and a sideman for virtually his entire career. He had a major hit recording with "The Sidewinder" in 1963 and was on a countless number of significant Blue Note recordings, stretching his hard bop style while being open to the influences of the avant-garde, post bop and late 1960s r&b. Only his untimely death in 1972 kept him from challenging Freddie Hubbard as the top jazz trumpeter of the 1970s. While Morgan's boogaloo recordings were very popular, Search For The New Land has one of his finest hours. Recorded right after The Sidewinder, Search For The New Land introduces five of Morgan's most challenging compositions, has him leading an all-star sextet (with Shorter, Grant Green and Herbie Hancock) and features him playing stirring and intense solos that rank not only with his greatest work but the most creative trumpet solos of the mid-1960s.

As Ron sez: "This album is a KILLA!"

You can win this upcoming test pressing set of one of the most amazing jazz albums ever recorded just by posting in this thread. SH Forums Moderators (Gorts) are welcome to enter as well.

A winner will be picked at random in a week or two.

Thanks to Ron, Joe and Michael at Music Matters for this generous gift to a lucky SH Forums member!

http://www.musicmattersjazz.com/


By the way, you lucky winners of the BLUE NOTE Music Matters test pressings will notice something unusual on your TPs in that instead of an RTI label they have a “Plastylite” label. Blue Note aficionados will recognize this as the pressing plant (long gone now) that used to press the Blue Note LPs. We of the Music Matters Blue Note team wanted to tip our hat to the heritage of Blue Note by using the original Plastylite labels on our test pressings same as Blue Note used back in the day. Collectors of rare original pressing Blue Note LPs from the 50’s and 60s look in the dead wax at the end of the side for a mark that has come to be known as the "ear." This mark is actually a capital cursive "P" for "Plastylite”.

Best of luck to you all from Joe, Ron and our Music Matters Team.