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DURING his rampant jazz life Lee Morgan, born in Philadelphia in 1938, was the firebrand of hard bop trumpeters. He joined the big band of his inspiration Dizzy Gillespie when he was a teenager and led his first sessions for the Blue Note Label in 1957-58 before spending three years with Art Blakey as a Jazz Messenger.
His stormy life ended at the age of 33 when he was shot by a girlfriend outside Slug’s Bar in New York City, where he had been performing.
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