In 1970, Morgan recorded three shows at the Lighthouse jazz club in Hermosa Beach, Calif. A new box set captures Morgan and his band putting their own spin on Coltrane's trance-like repetitions. This ...

Lee Morgan: trumpet, fluegelhorn; Grachan Moncur III: trombone; Bobbi Humphrey: flute; Billy Harper: tenor saxophone, alto flute; Harold Mabern: piano, electric piano ...

Kasper Collins' film recently played as part of the IDA Documentary Screening Series. Jazz musician Lee Morgan was shot and killed at a jazz club in 1972 at just 33 years old — by his wife, Helen ...

This is FRESH AIR. Our jazz critic Kevin Whitehead has a review of a new album by trumpet player Terell Stafford. Stafford leads his own groups and has recorded with Bobby Watson, Matt Wilson and The ...

This is an excellent, well-written, abundantly researched, scholarly book on the life and music of one of the great, unheralded heroes of jazz—the trumpeter Lee Morgan—who was shot and killed at ...

How big a fan is acclaimed San Diego trumpeter Gilbert Castellanos of jazz giants John Coltrane and Lee Morgan? So big that he estimates owning at least 50 vinyl albums by each of them. So big that he ...

In 1970, Morgan recorded three shows at the Lighthouse jazz club in Hermosa Beach, Calif. A new box set captures Morgan and his band putting their... Trumpeter Lee Morgan channels Coltrane's splashy ...

Jazz musician Lee Morgan was shot and killed at a jazz club in 1972 at just 33 years old — by his wife, Helen Morgan. Kasper Collin brings the trumpet prodigy to life in the documentary “I Called Him ...

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This is FRESH AIR. In July 1970, jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan recorded for three nights at the Lighthouse jazz club in Hermosa Beach, Calif. Some of that music has been issued before. Now there's a box ...