Lee Morgan
- MatchLee Morgan
- 100%Hank Mobley
- 82%Freddie Hubbard
- 79%Dexter Gordon
- 73%Jackie McLean
- 73%Wayne Shorter
- 72%Joe Henderson
- 69%Cole Porter
- 69%Duke Ellington
- 69%Horace Silver
- 69%Sonny Clark
Biography
10 July 1938, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, d. 19 February 1972, New York City, New York, USA. Prodigiously talented, Morgan played trumpet professionally at the age of 15 and three years later joined Dizzy Gillespies big band. During this same period he recorded with John Coltrane, Hank Mobley and others. In 1958 the Gillespie band folded and Morgan joined Art Blakeys Jazz Messengers where he made a tremendous impact not only nationally but around the world, thanks to the... Read more