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Apr 18, 2024 · Lee Morgan 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. A prolific composer, he used half-modal, half-chord-based harmonic structures.
Sep 29, 2023 · Recorded when Lee Morgan was just 19, ‘The Cooker’ sees the young Blue Note trumpet star transcend his influences to find his own voice.
Mar 14, 2023 · Legendary Hard Bop trumpeter Lee Morgan appeared on some of the best jazz records of the late-50s and 1960s before his tragic death aged just 33. In this article, we take a look (and a listen) at some of the career highlights of one of the true jazz trumpet greats.
In his short but eventful life, trumpeter Lee Morgan rocketed to the highest echelons of jazz in double-quick time – playing with Art Blakey as a teenager and recording with John...
Dec 4, 2020 · From dwelling in the depths of despairing obscurity to being the celebrated champion of a new style of jazz, trumpeter Lee Morgan paved the way for the popularity of the 60s soul-jazz phenomenon with his catchy 10-minute gem, “The Sidewinder.”
Aug 26, 2021 · A little over a year after the initial release of “Lighthouse,” Lee Morgan was shot and killed by Helen Morgan outside of Slugs’ Saloon in Manhattan on Feb. 19, 1972. He was...
Apr 26, 2024 · Lee Morgan, the incandescent hard-bop trumpeter, played his last Philadelphia engagement at the Aqua Lounge, in late October of 1971. He’d just released an exceptional album, Live at the Lighthouse, and was leading a band with Billy Harper on saxophone, Harold Mabern on piano, Jymie Merritt on bass and Billy Higgins on drums.
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