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ALBUMLate Night Lee MorganLee Morgan
Albums by Lee Morgan
ALBUMLate Night Lee MorganLee Morgan
ALBUMOn Vee-Jay: Lee MorganLee Morgan
ALBUM1960 SessionsLee Morgan & Clifford Jordan
ALBUMLee Morgan plays Lee MorganLee Morgan
ALBUMDouble or Nothin' (feat. Benny Golson, Wynton Kelly, Bob Cooper, Frank Rosolino, Red Mitchell, Stan Levey & Charlie Persip)Conte Candoli & Lee Morgan
ALBUMDelightfulee (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition Remastered)Lee Morgan
ALBUMLee Morgan Sextet, Vol. 2 (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition) [Remastered]Lee Morgan
ALBUMInfinityLee Morgan
ALBUMStandardsLee Morgan
ALBUMTaruLee Morgan
Artist Playlists
Lee Morgan Essentials
Funky soul-jazz compositions and fiery hard-bop solos on trumpet.
Lee Morgan: The Session Musicians
In the span of his few short years, he became a legend.
Lee Morgan: Deep Cuts
The furthest reaches of his vast catalog contained greatness.
Artist Biography
Trumpet hero Lee Morgan was one of the key figures of the hard-grooving, R&B-informed jazz subgenre known as hard bop. Born in Philadelphia in 1938, the precocious Morgan was only 18 when he started playing with Dizzy Gillespie, and he recorded his first album under his own name at the same age. The following year, he played on John Coltrane’s classic Blue Train, and at age 20 he joined Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, contributing to some of the band’s most beloved recordings. The butt-shaking groove and earworm melody of “The Sidewinder” (from Morgan’s album of the same name) made the song a surprise pop crossover success in 1964, helping to cement hard bop’s profile and Morgan’s career path. He recorded a slew of top-tier albums for Blue Note through the rest of the decade, working with Jackie McLean, Freddie Hubbard, Stanley Turrentine, and many others. It all came to a tragically early end when Morgan was shot to death by his girlfriend after an argument in 1972, but the trumpeter’s trailblazing work paved the way for neo-bop work trumpeters such as Wallace Roney and Nicholas Payton.
Hometown
Shreveport, LA, United States
Genre
Jazz