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Lee Morgan
Toggle the cite modalThis 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, joining Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers not much after, by his early-20s Morgan had played on four continents and dozens of albums. The trumpeter wou... Read more
Published: 2006
Pages: 308
eBook: 9781845532055
Tom Perchard is Professor of Music, Director of Research in Music and Co-director of the Popular Music Research Unit. His other works include After Django: Making Jazz in Postwar France (University of Michigan Press, 2015). His work is concerned with the historical and cultural situation of music-making and listening.