Lee Morgan's Volume III is a fantastic record pure and simple, one of my personal favorites.
Unfortunately it's one of the few I've never owned on vinyl in any form.
You can get some fine recent reissues, but the original vinyl in top condition can bring in $3000 plus for its seller. Just a little out of my price range, ouch!
Benny Golson, who also was by in large responsible for Blue Note 4003, delivers another hard bop masterpiece here .
Golson composed every single tune on the album, and yes, they are all worth repeated listens. Recorded on March 24th 1957, the record also is astounding for another reason: Lee Morgan's lyrical and powerful trumpet playing. Morgan, out of the Clifford Brown vein... plays an assured well rounded style, and Morgan did this at the young age of 18 years old!