MUSICIAN

Lee Morgan

1938 - 1972

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Edward Lee Morgan (July 10, 1938 – February 19, 1972) was an American jazz trumpeter and composer. One of the key hard bop musicians of the 1960s and a cornerstone of the Blue Note label, Morgan came to prominence in his late teens, recording with bandleaders like John Coltrane, Curtis Fuller, Dizzy Gillespie, Hank Mobley and Wayne Shorter, and playing in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. Morgan stayed with Blakey until 1961 and started to record as leader in the late '50s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lee Morgan has received more than 1,372,979 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Lee Morgan is the 694th most popular musician (down from 584th in 2019), the 3,511th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,049th in 2019) and the 211th most popular American Musician.

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  • 59.94

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.39

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Lee Morgan ranks 694 out of 3,175. Before him are The Edge, Scotty Moore, Yoshiki, Richard Galliano, Ricardo Viñes, and Âşık Veysel. After him are Rufus Wainwright, Steve Lukather, Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, Louis Prima, Hide, and Rick Davies.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Lee Morgan ranks 210. Before him are Ove Andersson, Tatsuya Shiji, Ralph Bakshi, Perry Anderson, Rauno Aaltonen, and Chuan Leekpai. After him are Jim Simons, Larry Niven, Richard Beymer, Manuel Monteiro de Castro, Lawrence Block, and Grethe Ingmann. Among people deceased in 1972, Lee Morgan ranks 100. Before him are Ivan Yefremov, Dan Blocker, Prince William of Gloucester, Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen, Violette Leduc, and Walter Jackson Freeman II. After him are František Čáp, Mahendra of Nepal, Meena Kumari, Vladimir Durković, Paul Grüninger, and Giangiacomo Feltrinelli.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lee Morgan ranks 3,511 out of 20,380. Before him are Fulton J. Sheen (1895), Carl Bernstein (1944), Harrison Dillard (1923), James R. Schlesinger (1929), Amelia Bloomer (1818), and Vesto Slipher (1875). After him are Al Green (1946), Arthur Janov (1924), Fiorello H. La Guardia (1882), Steve Bannon (1953), Kateri Tekakwitha (1656), and Andrew Taylor Still (1828).

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Among MUSICIANS In United States

Among musicians born in United States, Lee Morgan ranks 211. Before him are Chaka Khan (1953), Benny Golson (1929), Eddie Vedder (1964), Vinnie Vincent (1952), Lead Belly (1888), and Scotty Moore (1931). After him are Rufus Wainwright (1973), Steve Lukather (1957), Louis Prima (1910), Jerry Garcia (1942), Jeff Buckley (1966), and Eric Dolphy (1928).

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