Resolution 240340
Honoring and recognizing Edward “Lee” Morgan, whose soulful melodies and blazing improvisations continue to inspire musicians and bring joy to his legions of fans worldwide.
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“Those opposed? The ayes have it. The motion carries. The resolution is adopted. Will the Chief Clerk please read the title of Resolution Number 240340-A?”
Council President Johnson · Stated Meeting, December 4, 2025 · Dec 4, 2025 · official transcript, this passage
“Council will be at ease. 6-7. 6-7. Will the clerk please reread the title of Bill Number 240340-A. Majority Leader are you okay? Okay. Please reread the title, Chief Clerk, of Bill Number 240304-A?”
Council President Johnson · Stated Meeting, December 4, 2025 · Dec 4, 2025 · official transcript, this passage
“Thank you, Mr. President. I move that Bill No. 240340-A be moved from the Suspension Calendar to the Final Passage Calendar for the next session of Council. (Duly seconded.) COUNCIL PRESIDENT JOHNSON: It has been moved and properly seconded that Bill No. 240304-A be moved from the Suspension Calendar to the Final Passage Calendar for the next session of Council. All those in favor of the motion will signify by saying…”
Councilman Young · Stated Meeting, November 20, 2025 · Nov 20, 2025 · official transcript, this passage
Status timeline
- Apr 25, 2024ADOPTED · CITY COUNCIL
- Apr 25, 2024Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar · CITY COUNCIL
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..Title Honoring and recognizing Edward "Lee" Morgan, whose soulful melodies and blazing improvisations continue to inspire musicians and bring joy to his legions of fans worldwide. ..Body WHEREAS, Lee Morgan was born on July 10, 1938, grew up in Tioga, and began playing the trumpet at the age of 14. His musical development was nurtured by the Philadelphia jazz community, and his early interaction with professional musicians at the Heritage House Jazz Workshop and Music City Swing Club; and WHEREAS, Lee Morgan joined the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band and signed with Blue Note Records after graduating from Jules E. Mastbaum Area Vocation Technical High School on June 15, 1956. He began his career as a bandleader with his debut album, Lee Morgan, Indeed!, and was a sideman on John Coltrane's Blue Train and Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers' Moanin'; and WHEREAS, Lee Morgan's The Sidewinder was one of Blue Note Records' best-selling albums and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2000; and WHEREAS, Lee Morgan was an advocate for social justice as an organizer of Jazz and the People's Movement, a cultural group that agitated for greater representation of Black jazz musicians on broadcast television; and WHEREAS, Lee Morgan gave his final hometown performance in October 1971 at the Aqua Lounge which was located on West Philadelphia's historic 52nd Street Commercial Corridor; and WHEREAS, In 2024, Lee Morgan's "The Sidewinder" was inducted into the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress; and WHEREAS, On April 30, 2024, International Jazz Day, Lee Morgan will be memorialized with a historical marker; now, therefore, be it RESOLVED, THAT THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, Hereby recognizes Edward "Lee" Morgan, whose soulful melodies and blazing improvisations continue to inspire musicians and bring joy to his legions of fans worldwide. ..End