if this album didn't have ceora. i never would of bought it.
Posted by Anonymous, on 2005-09-20
youth, summer, and other lost necessities
5
I've rocked and bopped and classicalled, but if the third track on this album doesn't fan the embers, then you had better see your doctor because your fire has gone all the way out.
This is jazz at its best. Nice job Mr. Morgan.
Posted by Anonymous, on 2003-06-21
Five stars is right!
5
Any jazz fan who thinks they don't like bebop (such as my 82 year-old Dad, a veteran of the swing era) should be given this CD. I've listen to dozens of Blue Note and Verve reissues from the 50's and 60's and I can't think of an album that better captures the inventiveness, beauty, and sheer joy of this musicmaking. Every musician here is among the greats; the solos are magnificent and the ensemble work makes one disappointed that this group didn't do more recording together. Morgan is an underrated composer (as is tenor sax man Hank Mobley, an all-but-unknown genius and amazing on this album); if "Ceora" were Morgan's only composition, we'd still be in his debt. I've listened to this CD again and again, and it just gets better (I did send it to my Dad, by the way, and he's now a big Morgan/Mobley fan.) I agree 100% with the reviewer who pleaded for a five-star rating; this album is a classic!
