Laurie Morgan

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Laurence "Laurie" Morgan (born September 4, 1926 in Stoke Newington , London ; † February 5, 2020 ) was a British jazz musician ( drums , vibraphone , also piano ).

Live and act

Morgan began drumming as a ten year old; as a teenager he played with Rhythm Racketeers (with Don Rendell ), then as part of the Gay Caballeros . He played with the pianist Hetty Booth in 1943 and 1944 to look after the American troops. He then belonged to various London bands to appear in the USA in 1947 with Ronnie Scott and Tony Crombie and to study the new bebop on site. In order to keep in touch with the New York scene, he then worked with Ivor Noone on the RMS Queen Mary before he was back in London in December 1948 a founding member of Club Eleven , where he performed with John Dankworth , Bernie Fenton and Joe Muddel . After he belonged to Leon Roy's big band, he founded Elevated Music in 1950 , with which he also toured France and Belgium. In the 1950s he also worked with Harry Hayes, Bert Ambrose , Dizzy Reece and Vic Abbott. In 1959 he founded his Contemporary Jazz Unit to play with Dick Heckstall-Smith and Tommy Whittle . In the further course of the 1960s he largely withdrew from the jazz scene to act as musical director at the Mercury Theater and as assistant musical director at the National Theater . During the 1970s he performed occasionally with Bernie Cash's Great Jazz Solos Revisited Orchestra . In the 1990s he led a trio with Iggy Quale and Coleridge Goode .

Morgan can also be heard on records with Alan Dean's Beboppers , Tunji Oyelana and the New Departures Quartet . He also appeared in the documentary Jazz Britannia (2005). The drummer Paul Morgan is his son.

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  1. ↑ Simon Morgan: Obituary: Laurie Morgan. Jazz Journal, February 18, 2020, accessed on February 18, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Laurie Morgan in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data
SURNAME Morgan, Laurie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Morgan, Laurence
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British jazz musician (drums, vibraphone)
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Stoke Newington , London
DATE OF DEATH 5th February 2020