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A Night in the Life: Live at the Jazz Standard, Vol. 3
By Frank Morgan
Label: HighNote Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Confirmation; On Green Dolphin Street; Half Nelson; Hot House; Billie
Memorial Service for Jazz Great Frank Morgan at the Artists' Quarter in St. Paul on December 23, 2007
Saxophonist Frank Morgan will be remembered in words and music on the 74th anniversary of his birth. Frank Morgan, the legendary alto saxophonist who died at age 73 of complications from colon cancer at his Minneapolis home on December 14, will be remembered at a memorial service on Sunday, December 23, at the Artists' Quarter jazz ...
Frank Morgan - Memorial Celebration at the Jazz Bakery
FRANK MORGAN - MEMORIAL CELEBRATION AT THE JAZZ BAKERY JANUARY 5TH, 2008 2:00PM- 5:30PM Open to public Sammie Roberts Jazz with support from the Jazz Bakery and Mars Jazz is hosting a memorial celebration for legendary bebop saxophonist Frank Morgan. The memorial will be held at the Jazz Bakery, 3233 Helms Ave. Los Angeles, ...
Frank Morgan Dies at 73
Alto saxophonist Frank Morgan passed away from kidney failure this morning, near his family and friends in his hometown of Minneapolis. He had just completed a successful European tour, even though he was worried about his health. A memorial gathering is planned in his longtime home town of Taos, New Mexico, on what would have been ...
Frank Morgan: A Night in the Life: Live at the Jazz Standard, Vol. 3
by John Barron
Frank Morgan is unquestionably a name synonymous with bebop. Since his well publicized re-emergence on the jazz scene in 1985, the veteran alto saxophonist has kept the flames of a bygone era burning through extensive recordings and performances. A Night in the Life: Live at the Jazz Standard, Volume 3 documents one of the last great ...
Frank Morgan: Night in the Life: Live at the Jazz Standard, Volume 3
by C. Michael Bailey
Frank Morgan's 2003 engagement at New York's Jazz Standard has been a fruitful performance for the 73-year-old alto saxophonist, yielding City Nights: Live at the Jazz Standard, Volume 1, Raising the Standard: Live at the Jazz Standard, Volume 2 and now Night in the Life: Live at the Jazz Standard, Volume 3. The jazz recorded on ...
Frank Morgan: A Night in the Life & Reflections
by Terrell Kent Holmes
Frank Morgan A Night in the Life: Live at the Jazz Standard, Volume 3 HighNote 2007 Frank Morgan Reflections HighNote 2007 The irrepressible alto sax man Frank ...
Frank Morgan: Reflections
by C. Michael Bailey
Alto saxophonists Frank Morgan and the late Art Pepper have much in common outside their chosen instrument. Both were active on the West Coast during the rage of Charlie Parker and bebop. Both possessed a beautifully spearmint-dry ice tone in their early careers and both were unsurpassed as ballad interpreters. Both musicians recorded for Contemporary Records, ...
Reflections
By Frank Morgan
Label: HighNote Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Walkin'; Monk's Mood; I'll Be Around; Love Story; Solar; Blue Monk; Crazy He Calls Me; Out Of Nowhere.
Frank Morgan: Reflections
by Michael P. Gladstone
Alto saxophonist Frank Morgan remains one of the coolest bebop players and an inspiration to all. The legend of his losing three decades of his musical career to drug abuse and incarceration, followed by a significant rebirth in 1985, has already been retold too many times. Morgan's post-'85 albums remain a study in lyricism, swing and, ...
