Lee Morgan
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Edward Lee Morgan was an American jazz trumpeter and composer. One of the key hard bop musicians of the 1960s and a cornerstone of the Blue Note label, Morgan came to prominence in his late teens, rec
Morgan in 1959
From left: Morgan, Jymie Merritt, and Wayne Shorter, 1959
Blue Train (album)
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Blue Train is a studio album by the jazz saxophonist and composer John Coltrane. It was released in January 1958 through Blue Note Records, and is Coltrane's only session as leader for the label. The
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…its short-lived Jazzland subsidiary. He was a featured sideman on several early Hank Mobley records, and intermittently thereafter. On John Coltrane's Blue Train (1958), Morgan played a trumpet with an angled bell given to him by Gillespie. Joining Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers in 1958, Morgan further developed…
John Coltrane Blue Train