Tom "Pops" Colello

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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. . .”

Coming to NYC

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 …

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