1938
Lee Morgan, American trumpet player and composer (died 1972)
Lee Morgan, American trumpet player and composer (died 1972)
Lee Morgan, American trumpet player and composer (died 1972)
Lee Morgan
American jazz trumpeter (1938–1972)
- Born
- 1938
Edward Lee Morgan 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.