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Lee Morgan was born on July 10, 1938 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His mother and sister bought him a trumpet for his birthday when he was about 13 years old. He took trumpet lessons and played alto horn in his high school band. Philly had an active jazz scene and Morgan was fascinated with jazz from [...]

Before I start this post, I wanted to say that I realized last night that I’d already put up a performance of “Donna Lee” this week. Sorry about that. Maybe I should change the name of the blog to “Stop and Hear Donna Lee”.
Art Blakey was born in 1919 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Raised by [...]