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One of the key hard bop musicians of the 1960s and a cornerstone of the Blue Note label, Morgan came to prominence in his late teens, recording with bandleaders like John Coltrane, Curtis Fuller, Dizzy Gillespie, Hank Mobley and Wayne Shorter, and playing in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers.
Oct 11, 2021 · At age of 15 he was challenging Sonny Stitt in a jam session and in the summer of 1956 he played for two weeks in Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers when the band played Morgan’s home town of Philadelphia.
Apr 18, 2024 · Lee Morgan (born July 10, 1938, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died February 19, 1972, New York City, New York) was an American jazz improviser-songwriter, a lyric artist, who was the most expressive trumpet virtuoso of the bop idiom and one of its most popular performers.
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Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers (1959–64) In 1958 Blakey formed a new lineup with four Philadelphia natives: Lee Morgan, Benny Golson, Bobby Timmons, and Jymie Merritt. This marked the beginning of perhaps the most fruitful period of the Jazz Messengers.
Apr 27, 2022 · Lee Morgan, one of the brighter trumpet lights of the 1950s, became yet another victim of the violent times in which we live when he was murdered during an engagement at Slug’s, a New York jazz club, on February 19.
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Apr 23, 2024 · In 2016, Kasper Collin, a Swedish documentary film writer and director, released I Called Him Morgan. The film looks at the life of Lee Morgan and his relationship with his common-law wife, Helen Morgan, who killed him in New York in February 1972.
Mar 18, 2017 · Leave it to a Swedish documentarian to unearth a nearly forgotten chapter in the history of American jazz: the brilliant life and ugly death of trumpeter Lee Morgan—shot by his common-law...
