I Called Him Morgan is a 2017 documentary that was directed and produced by Swedish filmmaker Kasper Collin. He contacted Larry Reni Thomas after he wrote an article called The Lady Who Shot Lee Morgan which was based on an interview Thomas conducted in 1996 with the late Helen Morgan, who shot and killed the 33-year-old trumpet player in a New York City club called Slug's in 1972. Kasper used parts of the recorded interview in the movie. He interviewed several people, including Thomas. In 2014, he published a book called The Lady Who Shot Lee Morgan.

Attendees will have the opportunity to purchase and have both books signed by Thomas.

Larry Reni Thomas, a native of Wilmington, North Carolina, is a writer/radio announcer/lecturer based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, who has worked at seven radio stations and whose journalistic work has appeared in DownBeat magazine and The New York Times Magazine. He is the author of The True Story Behind The Wilmington Ten (KHA Books, 1993)) and Rabbit! Rabbit! Rabbit!: A Fictional Account of The Wilmington Ten Incident of February 1971 (KHA Books, 2006). Thomas also wrote The Lady Who Shot Lee Morgan, an article that included an exclusive interview with North Carolina native, Helen Morgan, who killed the 33-year-old jazz trumpet legend in 1972. Later, Thomas published a book called The Lady Who Shot Lee Morgan (KHA Books, 2014). In 2022, he published a book called: Carolina Shout: The Carolina Jazz Connection (KHA Books),

Thomas’s lecture, The Carolina Jazz Connection with Larry Thomas, has been presented at schools, colleges, universities, libraries, and public places since 2008. He was named Jazz Hero in 2014 by The Jazz Journalists Association; received the Fifth Annual Donald Meade Legacy Jazz Griot Award at The Jazz Education Network (JEN) conference in 2016, and has been a participant in the DownBeat magazine jazz critic poll since 2012. He is also a contributor to ejazznews.com and jazzcorner.com.

Thomas is featured in the documentary films: Wilmington On Fire and I Called Him Morgan. He received an M.A. in History from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) and has done further study at UNC-CH's Journalism graduate school. Thomas is also the host of Sunday Night Jazz on WCOM-FM, Chapel Hill-Carrboro, North Carolina.