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Context
Composition by Lee Morgan that became a jazz standard, released on the album Cornbread. The sextet includes Jackie McLean, Hank Mobley, Herbie Hancock, Larry Ridley, and Billy Higgins; the album confirms Morgan as a composer, in the shadow of the success of The Sidewinder.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Hard bop. Among the origins and influences of Hard bop: Blues, spirituals, work songs, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).