{"id":8769,"date":"2017-10-30T17:20:38","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T00:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=8769"},"modified":"2017-10-30T17:43:06","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T00:43:06","slug":"monday-recommendation-superb-lee-morgan-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2017\/10\/monday-recommendation-superb-lee-morgan-film\/","title":{"rendered":"MONDAY RECOMMENDATION: SUPERB LEE MORGAN FILM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2yhRx5d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I Called Him Morgan<\/a>, A Film by Kasper Collin (FilmRise)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8770\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Morgan-film.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"230\" \/>Swedish filmmaker Kasper Collin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s documentary recounts the exhilaration and tragedy in trumpeter Lee Morgan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s short life. He tells the story of Morgan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rapid rise, his wife Helen rescuing him from the ravages of addiction, and his death at 33 when she shot him. Collin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s melding of rare film clips, audiotape and minimal narration is an ingenious use of slight source material. Before she died in 1996, Helen recorded essential parts of the Morgan story for a friend in her hometown of Wilmington, Delaware. New interviews with Wayne Shorter, Paul West, Bennie Maupin and other Morgan colleagues fill out the tale. Bassist West credits Helen with \u00e2\u20ac\u0153making it possible for Morgan to function as a human being.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d As the film winds down, performance sequences include, to heartbreaking effect, Morgan soloing with Art Blakey\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sextet on pianist Bobby Timmons\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Dat Dere\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and his own \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Angela.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I Called Him Morgan, A Film by Kasper Collin (FilmRise) Swedish filmmaker Kasper Collin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s documentary recounts the exhilaration and tragedy in trumpeter Lee Morgan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s short life. He tells the story of Morgan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rapid rise, his wife Helen rescuing him from the ravages of addiction, and his death at 33 when she shot him. Collin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s melding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-recommendations","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}