April 14, 1967 was the first of two dates at Rudy Van Gelder’s New Jersey recording studio for trumpeter Lee Morgan’s album “Sonic Boom.”  Although the sessions were on April 14th and 28th of 1967 the album was not released until twelve years later on the Blue Note label.

Morgan’s sidemen on the dates were tenor saxophonist David “Fathead” Newman, pianist Cedar Walton, bassist Ron Carter and drummer Billy Higgins. The record included five tracks of Morgan compositions including the title track along with the Malnneck, Signorelli and Kahn tune I’ll Never Be the Same.

A CD edition of the recording was released in 2003 and included the original material from those two 1967 sessions, as well as an additional seven tracks recorded by a different Lee Morgan group in 1969.

Reviewer Germein Linares described the album as “an underrated gem” and “vintage Morgan” while highlighting the “remarkable” pairing of Morgan and Newman in the session's frontline.

Here is a link to a cut from Lee Morgan’s “Sonic Boom:”

"SONIC BOOM"