Morris Lane - Tenor Saxsation (Re-up)

Side1:

01. Bobby's Boogie

02. Ghost Town

03. Luke The Spook

04. Down The Lane

05. Blue Jeans

06. BO Plenty's Return

07. Midnight Sun

08. Pale Moon (An Indian Love Song)

Side 2:

01. Moon Ray

02. I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire

03. It Ain't Necessarily So

04. Stairway To The Stars

05. Poinciana

06. Blues In The Night

07. Twilight Time

08. Everything I Have Is Yours

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Tenor Saxsation (Mega)

Original post (1st March, 2009) is here:

http://bebopwinorip.blogspot.co.uk/2009/03/morris-lane-tenor-saxsation.html

Good compilation of sides by ex-Lionel Hampton tenor sax player Morris Lane. Sides recorded 1947 - 1952. The first six tracks (recorded for Savoy, Apollo and Robin) are good rousing jump blues. In 1952 Lane changed style, recording a series of swing standards for Coral with a band featuring Bill Doggett on organ and Leroy Kirkland.  He recorded another four sides in the same vein for the small Scooter label. The Coral and Scooter sides are comparable to the sax stylings of Earl Bostic and Lynn Hope and obviously aimed at the same audience.

Not covered in this comp are sides Lane recorded in 1946 for Savoy with, inter alia, Sonny Stitt, Fats Navarro, Bud Powell and Kenny Clarke as part of a group billed as the "Be-Bop Boys." They may well be coming up in a future post.