Delightfulee The Life and Music of Lee Morgan

Name: Delightfulee The Life and Music of Lee Morgan
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ISBN: 9780472032815

ISBN-10: 047203281X

ISBN-13: 9780472032815

Edition: 2008

Authors: Jeff McMillan

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"McMillan's enthusiasm for his subject is obvious; fans of Lee Morgan should welcome this book." ---Tom Owens, author ofBebop: The Music and Its Players Lee Morgan began his professional career in Philadelphia at age fifteen. At eighteen, after a short stint with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, Morgan went to New York to join Dizzy Gillespie's orchestra, where he stayed until 1958, when the group disbanded. A return to Blakey brought Morgan new opportunities, including his first attempts at composition. But however much his time with Blakey helped to advance his playing and writing, his boss and his bandmates' destructive drug habits exerted just as strong an influence. Within two years,…

Book details

List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 7/21/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English



Preface



Beginnings



The Student



Breaking into the Big Time



Many Nights in Tunisia: On Tour with the Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra



Gigging and Recording



Freelancing and Becoming a Jazz Messenger



Life as a Messenger



The Summit



Collapse



Comeback and The Sidewinder



Blue Note Classics



Studio Man



Left Bank Jazz Society and Another Comeback



Working Man



New Beginning



Slugs'


Epilogue


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index


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