{"id":41664,"date":"2009-09-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/the-sidewinder\/"},"modified":"2009-09-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T00:00:00","slug":"the-sidewinder","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/the-sidewinder\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sidewinder"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trumpet virtuoso Lee Morgan didn\u2019t live a long life. His girlfriend shot him at the young age of 33. In his short life, Lee Morgan did do a lot of recording, both leading and as a sideman. The Sidewinder<\/i> was perhaps his biggest commercial success. The title track was such a chart-buster that it got featured in Chrysler car commercials. Nowadays that wouldn\u2019t be very special, but a jazz song entering the Billboard Top 100 and being used in commercials in 1964 was quite an achievement.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

It isn\u2019t hard to tell why \u201cThe Sidewinder\u201d was such a hit. The track is catchy like a virus.\u00a0 Morgan draws a lot of the attention to himself (whether on purpose or not), but the interplay between the musicians is absolutely brilliant. Drummer Billy Higgins and pianist Barry Harris give the track a slight Latin feel. Tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson plays remarkably well on \u201cThe Sidewinder,\u201d but is eventually overshadowed when Morgan\u2019s amazing solo kicks in. Pianist Barry Harris has a more important role in album\u2019s second track, but also has a noteworthy solo on the aforementioned title cut. \u201cThe Sidewinder\u201d is an amazing tune which, quite understandably, became a jazz standard.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

The second track, \u201cTotem Pole,\u201d features some of the best solos I\u2019ve ever heard on a jazz record. Listen to Henderson\u2019s soloing on this song and you know what I\u2019m talking about. On \u201cGary\u2019s Notebook,\u201d the interplay between Morgan and Henderson is again astonishing. Though \u201cGary\u2019s Notebook\u201d is a bit more sophisticated than \u201cThe Sidewinder,\u201d it\u2019s just as catchy!<\/o:p><\/p>\n

These three tracks make The Sidewinder<\/i> one of my favorite jazz records. If you think you don\u2019t like jazz, please give this disc a try! It might just be the cure. If you like jazz but have never heard The Sidewinder<\/i>, buy it right now because you\u2019re really missing something.<\/o:p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":30033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[8452],"rating":[5646],"class_list":["post-41664","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-lee-morgan","rating-rating-a"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=41664"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=41664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}