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 an…
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