I Called Him Morgan
- 2016
- 1h 32m
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7.3/10
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An exploration of the relationship between jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan and his common-law wife Helen, who was implicated in his murder in 1972.An exploration of the relationship between jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan and his common-law wife Helen, who was implicated in his murder in 1972.An exploration of the relationship between jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan and his common-law wife Helen, who was implicated in his murder in 1972.
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- 1 win & 7 nominations
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- SoundtracksSearch For The New Land
written & performed by Lee Morgan
published by BMG Platinum Songs, A BMG Company and EMI Longitude Music, Courtesy of Sony/ATV Music publishing Scandinavia
(P) 1964 Blue Note Records
under license from Universal Music AB
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The Best Documentary about "Black Classical Music" and a Long-Ago New York City
If you love and understand real jazz--and especially if you love the long-ago New York City that gave birth to bebop and hard bop--there is nothing out there like this film. It is also fitting that a non-American made it, given that the United States has so turned its back on its greatest artistic creation and the musicians who created it. (Just compare this film with the shameful recent American documentary about Trane--with its pandering casting of Denzel Washington as narrator and utterly stupid and irrelevant choices of people to interview (Bill Clinton? Carlos Santana? Common? Cornell West? John Densmore?). From the late-night Larry Thomas jazz radio program and New York City snowfall and that opens I Called Him Morgan(and hey, whatever happened to that snow? It seems to have disappeared along with the jazz scene),the interviews with jazz musicians of Lee Morgan's time (one of whom who objects to the term "jazz," aptly preferring "black classical music"), and with it's beautifully paced rendering of acompelling American story of love and pain...for someone like me, who lived through all of that, it just could not have been better.
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- Gross US & Canada
- $128,986
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $12,902
- Mar 26, 2017
- Gross worldwide
- $128,986
- Runtime1 hour 32 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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