A jazz trumpeter records what he considers disposable filler to finish an album, and it becomes a runaway crossover hit. Then Chrysler uses it in a World Series commercial without asking. Lee Morgan threatened a lawsuit, forced the ad off the air, and won a settlement. This episode follows Edward Lee Morgan from Philadelphia, where his sister gave him a trumpet on his 13th birthday and Clifford Brown mentored him, to Dizzy Gillespie's big band at 18, John Coltrane's Blue Train, and Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, where he wrote tunes and pushed Blakey to hire Wayne Shorter.

We examine the dark side of that era, including biographer Tom Perchard's account that Blakey himself introduced Morgan to heroin, the retreat home to recover, the 1963 comeback session that produced The Sidewinder and its boogaloo beat, and Blue Note's pressure to repeat  ...