Hear Morgan’s trumpet player Eddie Henderson November 3-4 at Lewers Lounge, then watch the Hawaii International Film Festival documentary “I Called Him Morgan” on November 5. Video and photos: Courtesy of the Honolulu International Film Festival ADirectors and directors make regular appearances at film festivals, but it’s rare to hearRead More →
Background photo courtesy of the Afro-American Newspaper Archives and Research Center Lee Morgan’s story as a promising and extraordinarily gifted trumpet player who was also a junkie seems like your typical piece of jazz tragedy, but his untimely death at age thirty-three did not come from an overdose. I calledRead More →
Kasper Collins’ film recently played as part of IDA’s documentary screening series. Jazz musician Lee Morgan was shot and killed in a jazz club in 1972 aged just 33 – by his wife, Helen Morgan. Kasper Collin brings the trumpet prodigy to life in the documentary ‘I Called Him Morgan’,Read More →