I was not at Slugs when Lee Morgan was shot but it had a profound impact on me. It was February 1972. In early May I finished my course work for my Masters degree and fled the dry corridors of SUNY Binghamton for the juicy street life of Alphabet City. In 2018 when I read M. Shipton’s comments …
Alyn Shipton - A New History of Jazz, 2007
“the moment that hard-bop came to an end as a vital force in Jazz was when Lee Morgan was shot dead by his jealous mistress at Slug’s club on the lower east side of New York City. . .”