Film Premiere Weekend Of Jazz Doc I Called Him Morgan at Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center At Lincoln Center

The new jazz documentary I CALLED HIM MORGAN premieres at Lincoln Center on March 24 and runs throughout that weekend. (It will run the following weekend at Metrograph, in downtown NYC, the following weekend.) The film is about the acclaimed hard bop trumpeter Lee Morgan, who recorded 25 albums on Blue Note Records. Morgan was a member of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers until his descent into drug addiction debilitated him. Helen Morgan revived the man and his career, but eventually shot him to death during a gig at the legendary Lower East Side club Slug's in 1972. This award-winning film chronicles their tragic love story and the amazing jazz that surrounded it, in beautiful cinematography...

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The new jazz documentary I CALLED HIM MORGAN premieres at Lincoln Center on March 24 and runs throughout that weekend. (It will run the following weekend at Metrograph, in downtown NYC, the following weekend.) The film is about the acclaimed hard bop trumpeter Lee Morgan, who recorded 25 albums on Blue Note Records. Morgan was a member of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers until his descent into drug addiction debilitated him. Helen Morgan revived the man and his career, but eventually shot him to death during a gig at the legendary Lower East Side club Slug's in 1972. This award-winning film chronicles their tragic love story and the amazing jazz that surrounded it, in beautiful cinematography. Discounted tickets to the premier weekend screening are available via social media platforms for them film, or through its website.

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