The turnpike is here next to us, and it sort of sounds like a river from time to time, with the traffic. 'And, you know, had the snowstorm not hit New York that night, the ambulance could have probably saved him. 'There was no snow in the forecast,' he mused.

With a hint of wonderment, he recalled a surreal moment from that afternoon, during the excavation, when it unexpectedly started snowing.

Standing there, it was almost hard to imagine the marker buried so deep into the hillside, though I'd seen a series of photos that Maguire posted to a private Facebook group, Jazz Vinyl Lovers. I met him on a recent Sunday at Morgan's gravesite, where he'd already laid a bouquet of yellow roses. He works as the art director at a company that makes metal credit cards he's an amateur guitar player but a serious jazz fan. Since unearthing the marker, Maguire himself has become a minor character in Morgan's posthumous fate, a fact he acknowledges without belaboring the point. The unearthed marker at Lee Morgan's gravesite in White Chapel Memorial Park Cemetery near Philadelphia. Rather than a conventional documentary arc, it conjures an aura of reminiscence and conjecture among its subtexts is a wistful notion of what the world lost with Morgan's shocking departure. Now streaming on Netflix, it's an empathetic portrait of both Lee and Helen Morgan, and a clear-eyed view on their relationship, which helped pull him back from the depths of a serious heroin addiction. This story received a powerful and sensitive treatment in the 2016 documentary I Called Him Morgan, by Swedish filmmaker Kasper Collin. A snowstorm delayed the arrival of medical help, and Morgan bled to death from his injury. Between sets early Saturday morning, he had an altercation with his common-law wife, Helen, who shot him. Morgan was playing a gig at the East Village club Slugs' Saloon. He's also one of jazz's most infamous casualties, due to the circumstances of his death almost exactly 50 years ago, on Feb. Morgan was a hard-bop trumpeter of spectacular prowess and undeniable charisma, with a discography that spans some of the most iconic Blue Note albums of the 1960s. LEE MORGAN, and the years 1938 to 1972 - the measure of a life cut tragically short. On a recent afternoon, the winter sun cast stark shadows across his grave marker, which has a trumpet engraved beneath his name, EDW.

Lee Morgan's final resting place is a hillside plot in a modest cemetery in Bucks County, brushing up against the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Nearly 50 years later, one fan discovered that Morgan's resting place seemed to have vanished. Lee Morgan was killed in 1972, tragedy cutting short the life and career of the prolific and celebrated jazz musician.

Delmarva Remembered by Morgan C. Lee