Lee Morgan (tp) Wayne Shorter (ts) Bobby Timmons (p) Jymie Merritt (b) Art Blakey (d) - "Theatre De Beaulieu", Lausanne, Switzerland, December 8, 1960 - There is really something strange going on. The TCB version od this album is no longer available for the US but the bootleg version is. Seems strange that this type of merchandising is going on!?
This appears to be the first half of the Lausanne December 1960 concert with the Shorter, Morgan, Timmons, Merritt lineup.
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