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Jazz Film Fest: I Called Him Morgan

Fri & Sat, Jun 16 & 17 / 9 pm
Sun, June 18 / 7 pm
Directed by Kasper Collin
2016, Sweden / USA, 91 min

On a snowy night in February 1972, celebrated jazz bop trumpeter Lee Morgan was shot dead by his wife Helen during a gig at a club in New York City. The murder sent shockwaves through the jazz community, and the memory of the event still haunts those who knew the Morgans. This documentary by Swedish filmmaker Kasper Collin (My Name Is Albert Ayler) is a love letter to two unique personalities and the music that brought them together. A film about love, jazz and America with cinematography by Bradford Young

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Reviews

Kasper Collin's I Called Him Morgan isn't just the greatest jazz documentary since Let's Get Lost, it's a documentary-as-jazz. That’s Lee beside John Coltrane on the legendary 1957 album Blue Train. And that’s Lee as part of the Jazz Messengers, the super group led by drummer Art Blakey. Spellbinding, hallucinatory, exuberant, tragic.
- The Guardian
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