I Called Him Morgan

Murdered at the age of 33 by his common-law wife Helen, legendary jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan is the subject of I Called Him Morgan (2016), the second film by Swedish director Kasper Collin. Carefully guiding viewers through the years, months, and days leading to Lee’s death on February 19, 1972, I Called Him Morgan is half biopic and half retrospective: combining recent video interviews with Lee’s contemporaries and a lengthy 1996 audio interview with Helen (who, eerily enough, died just one month later), it paints a detailed picture of Lee’s short but extremely prolific career.

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