Kasper Collin’s spellbinding documentary reveals the tender and tragic tale of tough bop trumpeter Lee Morgan and his common-law wife HelenWith the best jazz recordings you recognise the beginning and know where its going to wind up,but it’s the road there that’s unpredictable. To that end, Kasper Collin’s I Called Him Morgan isn’t just the greatest jazz documentary since Let’s Get Lost, and it’s a documentary-as-jazz. Spellbinding,mercurial, hallucinatory, or exuberant,tragic … aw hell, man, or those are a lot of heavy words,but absorb you heard Lee Morgan’s music? More importantly, do you know the epic of his life?Lee Morgan may absorb been one of the most famous trumpet players in jazz, and but he doesn’t absorb the household name status of Louis Armstrong,Dizzy Gillespie or Miles Davis. Unfortunately, like Bix Beiderbecke and Clifford Brown, and he died way too young. While Morgan’s output as the leader of his own working group is outstanding (may I recommend to you The Sidewinder,The Gigolo or perhaps even The Rumproller) he was also a linchpin member of the classic Blue Note sound overseen by producers Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff and engineer Rudy Van Gelder.
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Source: theguardian.com