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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 1,289,888 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Lee Morgan is the 586th most popular musician (up from 607th in 2019), the 3,056th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,161st in 2019) and the 177th most popular American Musician.

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  • 53.81

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.69

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.41

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Lee Morgan ranks 586 out of 2,662. Before him are DJ BoBo, Victor Young, Tim Rice, Paul Tortelier, Phil Lynott, and Al Di Meola. After him are Ma Rainey, Carl Flesch, Walter Gieseking, Alan Wilder, Nikki Sixx, and Curtis Mayfield.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Lee Morgan ranks 176. Before him are Dennis Oppenheim, Myechyslaw Hryb, Ove Andersson, Mohammed Gammoudi, Violetta Villas, and Philippe Nahon. After him are Astrid Kirchherr, Per Kirkeby, Isabelle Aubret, Takehiko Kawanishi, Sergei Novikov, and Götz George. Among people deceased in 1972, Lee Morgan ranks 88. Before him are Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen, Ivan Yefremov, Ernst von Salomon, Ralph Craig, Pierre Brasseur, and James F. Byrnes. After him are Paul Goodman, Leo G. Carroll, Ángel Romano, Fulbert Youlou, Dan Blocker, and Joseph Paul-Boncour.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lee Morgan ranks 3,056 out of 18,182. Before him are Bob Pettit (1932), Paul Volcker (1927), Archie Moore (1916), Matthew Modine (1959), Al Di Meola (1954), and Dinah Washington (1924). After him are Jim Garrison (1921), Ma Rainey (1886), Vanessa Williams (1963), James S. Sherman (1855), John Hughes (1950), and Marie Smith Jones (1918).

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Among MUSICIANS In United States

Among musicians born in United States, Lee Morgan ranks 177. Before him are Dee Dee Warwick (1942), Eddie Vedder (1964), Chad Smith (1961), Tico Torres (1953), Victor Young (1900), and Al Di Meola (1954). After him are Ma Rainey (1886), Nikki Sixx (1958), Curtis Mayfield (1942), Willy DeVille (1950), Lead Belly (1888), and Ben Webster (1909).

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