The Brilliant Life and Ugly Death of Lee Morgan
'I Called Him Morgan' details the short career of the hard bop trumpeter who was gunned down at only 33 in 1972.
Leave it to a Swedish documentarian to unearth a nearly forgotten chapter in the history of American jazz: the brilliant life and ugly death of trumpeter Lee Morgan—shot by his common-law wife, Helen, between sets at Slug’s Saloon on Manhattan’s Lower East Side in 1972. (Apparently, she was enraged by his attentions to another woman.) Morgan
