City Lights WWSLP88 and produced the entire album

and produced the entire album on his own

This duality resonates with the band's exploration of contrasting musical themes—melding the cosmic and the terrestrial

It featured innovative instrumentation and arrangements influenced by classical music techniques such as polyphony

he was studying at the Conservatory of Music

City Lights WWSLP88 and produced the entire albumTrumpeter Lee Morgan was just 19 years old and still early on in his lengthy Blue Note association when he cut his brightly swinging album City Lights in August 1957. The date featured a wonderful sextet with Curtis Fuller on trombone, George Coleman on alto and tenor saxophone, Ray Bryant on piano, Paul Chambers on bass, and Art Taylor on drums. The brilliant young trumpet prodigy was still turning heads with his show stealing performances as part of