Lee Morgan is still not fully appreciated for all of the music he left behind and how he changed the sound of the trumpet starting in the late 1950s. The glorious way he bent notes and tore into solos with economy and fervor became a singular sound and personality. He first stood out as a purposeful hard-bop player in Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers and then recorded a long string of superb albums as a leader for Blue Note. [Photo above of Lee Morgan by Francis Wolff (c)Mosaic Images]
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.
Here's the full film (just ignore the French subtitles)...
