Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder (Vinyl) Chch New Skin Alley– Sun Music 5:20

Skin Alley– Sun Music 5:20

Seminal tracks such as Michigan and Smiley’s ‘Nice Up The Dance’

and tones from an arsenal of analog synths

Megatone is the third studio album by Klaus Schulze's side project

Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder (Vinyl) Chch New Skin Alley– Sun Music 5:20Carried by its almost impossibly infectious eponymous opening track, The Sidewinder helped foreshadow the sounds of boogaloo and soul jazz with its healthy R&B influence and Latin tinge. While the rest of the album retreats to a more conventional hard bop sound, Morgan's compositions are forward thinking and universally solid. Only 25 at the time of its release, Morgan was accomplished (and perhaps cocky) enough to speak of mentoring the great Joe