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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1938
- Active to
- 1972
Discography
- Candy1957
- City Lights1957
- Dizzy Atmosphere1957
- Indeed!1957
- Introducing Lee Morgan1957
- Vol. 31957
- Volume 2, Sextet1957
- The Cooker1958
- Expoobident1960
- Here's Lee Morgan1960
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- 546,054
- Total plays
- 4,488,994
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Edward Lee Morgan (July 10, 1938 – February 19, 1972) was an American jazz trumpeter and composer. One of the key hard bop musicians of the 1960s and a cornerstone of the Blue Note label, Morgan came to prominence in his late teens, recording with bandleaders like John Coltrane, Curtis Fuller, Dizzy Gillespie, Hank Mobley, Wayne Shorter and Art Blakey. Morgan stayed with Blakey until 1961 and started to record as leader in the late '50s. Morgan's <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Lee+Morgan">R
Key facts
- Born
- Edward Lee Morgan , ( 1938-07-10 ) July 10, 1938, Philadelphia , Pennsylvania, U.S.
- Died
- February 19, 1972 (1972-02-19) (aged 33), New York City , U.S.
- Genres
- Jazz hard bop post-bop
- Occupation
- Musician
- Instruments
- Trumpet flugelhorn
- Works
- Lee Morgan discography
- Years active
- 1956–1972
- Labels
- Blue Note Vee-Jay
- Formerly of
- The Jazz Messengers
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Lee
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Philadelphia
- Place of death
- New York City
- Occupation
- jazz musician
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- jazz
- Movement
- hard bop
- Instrument
- trumpet
- Record label
- Blue Note
- Image
- Lee Morgan (1959).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1938-07-10
- date of death
- 1972-02-19
- manner of death
- homicide
- Commons category
- Lee Morgan
- start of work period
- 1956-00-00
- end of work period
- 1972-00-00
- name in native language
- Lee Morgan
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Encyclopedic overview
Edward Lee Morgan (July 10, 1938 – February 19, 1972) was an American jazz trumpeter and composer. One of the key hard bop musicians of the 1960s and a cornerstone of the Blue Note label, Morgan came to prominence in his late teens, recording with bandleaders like John Coltrane, Curtis Fuller, Dizzy Gillespie, Hank Mobley, and Wayne Shorter, and playing in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers.
Morgan stayed with Blakey until 1961 and started to record as leader in the late '50s. Morgan's solo recordings often alternated between conventional hard bop sessions and more adventurous post-bop and avant-garde experiments, many of which did not see release during his lifetime. His composition "The Sidewinder", on the album of the same name, became a surprise crossover hit on the pop and R&B charts in 1964. After a second stint in Blakey's band, Morgan continued to work prolifically as both a leader and a sideman until his death in 1972.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lee Morgan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.