Lee Morgan: His Life, Music and Culture

by Tom Perchard

Book Overview

This is the first biography of the jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan (1938-72). He was a prodigy- recruited to Dizzy Gillespie's big band while still a teenager, he joined Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers not much after. By his early twenties Morgan had played on four continents and dozens of albums. The trumpeter would go on to cultivate a personal and highly influential style, and to make records - most notably The Sidewinder - which would sell numbers of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845533828
• ISBN13: 9781845533823
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Equinox Publishing (UK)
• Length: 297 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"