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Remembering the great Lee Morgan who was born this week in 1938. A prodigy known as the most expressive trumpet virtuoso of the bop idiom and one of its most popular performers, Morgan was a professional musician at age 15, and at 18 he was a featured soloist with the Dizzy Gillespie big band. His attack was aggressive; half-valved, slurred, and stuttered notes lent expressive character to his lines. Emotional complexities, from exuberance to dark moods, were typical of his improvising, as evidenced by his melodic intricacy and great rhythmic poise. He began leading his own recording sessions in the late 1950s, at first exhibiting a style modeled on Clifford Brown’s trumpeting. Even then, however, idiosyncratic elements of phrasing and expression appeared in his playing, elements that were integrated into a personal style during his first tenure with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. Morgan was also part of multi-instrumentalist Rahsaan Roland Kirk’s Jazz and People’s Movement where they organized protests and pickets, specifically targeting major television networks to demand better representation, fair broadcasting opportunities for Black artists, and an end to racist practices in show business. The black liberation movement of the late-60s gave the musician a new, political impulse, and he returned to the jazz scene to become a vociferous campaigner for black musicians’ rights and representation. Here, he is performing “Angela” with Billy Harper on tenor saxophone, Harold Mabern on piano, Jymie Merritt on bass and Freddie Waits on drums live on Soul! in 1972. The tune was composed by bassist Jymie Merritt and is dedicated to Marxist feminist activist and author Angela Davis.
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Originais do Samba performing “Tenha Fé” live in 1972. The Brazilian samba group was formed in Rio de Janeiro in the 1960s and they enjoyed great success in a time that saw samba music have a revival. Just like their peers at the time, the group blended the traditional samba percussion with up-beat newer sounds.
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