Collin ... hasn't quite found the sweet spot here between true crime and musical biography, but the story that plays out in "Morgan" is still an intriguing one."I Called Him Morgan" works as a jazz documentary as well as a bizarre true crime tale about a mysterious crime of passion. All these years later, many questions remain.Collin's approach to this incendiary material is both blatant and oblique - a bit like Lee's playing itself. Thankfully, we hear quite a bit of that playing in the film.Ultimately, Collin's film is one of forgiveness.I Called Him Morgan evokes times and places, and the sorrows and joys of the jazz life in those times and places, with real integrity.A bittersweet documentary about the woman who saved a jazz legend's life, and then killed him.All we have are the known facts, and that is all that I Called Him Morgan provides in the end.I Called Him Morgan is a first-rate documentary. It's also the perfect impetus to explore Morgan's catalogue.Much of these details could be found on Morgan's extensive Wikipedia page, and they don't do much to explain why a movie was essential.There was no escaping the profound loss experienced on that evening, turning I Called Him Morgan into a musical story of sorrow and regret that plays as if its abrupt, agonizing outcome blindsided everyone, even if it was never really in doubt.I couldn't have anticipated that Swedish filmmaker Kasper Collin would provide such a personal and moving portrait of the musician, who died at age 33. You don't have to love jazz to be drawn into this remarkable storyMusicians sometimes paraphrase Debussy, or one another, in saying that music is the silence between the notes. I Called Him Morgan has it all -- the notes and the silence, plus the music of spoken language, pitched in rueful tones of recollection.Using a dazzling blend of cinematic tools, aural as well as visual, Collin recreates both individual lives and an entire world.The interview-"an amazing document," Collin says-enriches the documentary and transforms it into a story within the story.This is not a lurid true-crime tale of jealousy and drug addiction, but a delicate human drama about love, ambition and the glories of music."Morgan" will be heaven for jazz aficionados, but those who don't know the difference between bebop and hard bop won't feel lost. Collin understands that his film is about people, not art, but his deft storytelling flexes its own nimbleness and beauty.[Lee Morgan's] life was as colorful and tragic. His talent as deep. This enlightening and haunting documentary gives him his due.Director Kasper Collins imbues this documentary with an ambiguous, unsettlingly empathetic emotional force.Collin, in collaboration with cinematographer Bradford Young, has filled out the usual with a vital evocation of the bandleader's milieu, often with new 16mm footage that audiences might take for an archival find.The musicians must be the most photogenic men alive - almost every shot evokes a freedom of spirit, a simultaneous relaxation and alertness.