[Pre Order] The Young Lions - The Young Lions - OJC LP *

Release Date: April 24, 2026

Released as part of the legendary Original Jazz Classics series
All-analog mastering from the original tapes at Cohearent Audio.
Features Wayne Shorter (tenor sax), Frank Strozier (alto sax), Lee Morgan (trumpet), Bobby Timmons (piano), Bob Cranshaw (bass), Albert Heath (drums) and Louis Hayes (drums)
Pressed on 180-gram vinyl at RTI
Presented in Stoughton Tip-On Jacket with Obi

The Young Lions was recorded at Bell Sound Studios in NYC in 1960 and released in 1961 on Vee-Jay Records. It includes four songs composed by Wayne Shorter, and one by Lee Morgan. The album title references Irwin Shaw's popular 1948 novel of the same name. In the album's liner notes, saxophonist Cannonball Adderley uses Shaw's novel to make an argument about jazz, claiming that there is a tension in modern jazz between tradition and the avant-garde. He suggests that conformity to either traditionalism or the avant-garde is stifling of "true genius."

Side A:
1. Seeds Of Sin
2. Scourn'
3. Fat Lady

Side B:
1. Peaches And Cream
2. That's Right