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‘I Called Him Morgan’: The Tragic Story of a Jazz Musician Murdered in His Heyday | Movies

2017-03-31
By: Margaret J. Faulkner
On: March 31, 2017
In: Jazz musician

Just as Lee Morgan seemed poised to break the cycle of drug addiction that had plagued him for years, the 33-year-old jazz trumpeter died in 1972, the victim not of an overdose, as so many similar stories have finished, but with a bullet. The documentary “I Called Him Morgan”, whichRead More →

Lee Morgan’s Jazz Tragedy, Beautifully Rendered

2017-03-30
By: Margaret J. Faulkner
On: March 30, 2017
In: Lee morgan

Artistic, obsessive and intoxicating, “I Called Him Morgan” is a documentary with a creative soul, and that makes all the difference. It’s not just that it’s a haunting and deeply moving jazz tragedy, dealing with the life and untimely death in 1972 of legendary trumpeter Lee Morgan, who was shotRead More →

‘I Called Him Morgan’: The Tragic Story of a Jazz Musician Murdered in His Heyday

2017-03-30
By: Margaret J. Faulkner
On: March 30, 2017
In: Jazz musician

A documentary traces the brief life, trumpet career and volatile romantic history of Lee Morgan. (Luxury Submarine) Just as Lee Morgan seemed poised to break the cycle of drug addiction that had plagued him for years, the 33-year-old jazz trumpeter died in 1972, the victim not of an overdose, asRead More →

Director Kasper Collin tells jazz great Lee Morgan’s tragic love story on the West Coast

2017-03-29
By: Margaret J. Faulkner
On: March 29, 2017
In: Lee morgan

One snowy night in February 1972, Helen Morgan reached into her bag and pulled out the gun her husband, Lee, had bought for her. Lee, a 33-year-old jazz trumpeter who rose to fame as a teenager, was about to perform at Slug’s Saloon, a nightclub in New York’s East Village.Read More →

Film sheds light on the brilliant life and ugly death of jazzman Lee Morgan

2017-03-18
By: Margaret J. Faulkner
On: March 18, 2017
In: Lee morgan

Leave it to a Swedish documentary filmmaker to uncover a nearly forgotten chapter in American jazz history: the brilliant life and ugly death of trumpeter Lee Morgan, shot by his common-law wife, Helen, between sets at Slug’s Saloon in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. in 1972. (Apparently she wasRead More →

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