" data-original-title="" title="">Lee Morgan is still not fully appreciated for all of the music he left behind and how he changed the sound of the trumpet. The glorious way he bent notes and tore into solos with economy and fervor became a fingerprint of sorts. He first stood out as a purposeful hard-bop player in Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers and then recorded a long string of superb albums as a leader for Blue Note.

In 2016, Kasper Collin, a Swedish documentary film writer and director, released I Called Him Morgan. The film looks at the life of Lee Morgan and his relationship with his common-law wife, Helen Morgan, who killed him in New York in February 1972. 

Here's the full film (just ignore the French subtitles)...

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