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Laurie Morgan obituary

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Influential British jazz experimenter of the 1940s and 50s

Laurie Morgan, who has died aged 93, was an influential member of the coterie of British jazz experimenters of the 1940s and 50s that most famously included the saxophonists Ronnie Scott and John Dankworth. A drummer, bandleader, theatre musician and teacher, Morgan was a smart, creative and idealistic man who contributed significantly to British jazz’s emancipation from dutiful mimicry of its US models.

As a co-founder of the Club Eleven collective that lit the way toward the establishment of Scott’s London club in 1959, he devoted much of his life to finding an authentically homegrown sound, collaborating with British composers such as the pianist Stan Tracey and the saxophonist Bobby Wellins– as well as the British beat poets Michael Horovitz and Pete Brown as part of the 60s poetry-and-jazz movement.

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