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Raising the Standard: Live at the Jazz Standard, Vol. 2
By Frank Morgan
Label: HighNote Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Footprints; Nefertiti; Don
Frank Morgan: Raising the Standard: Live at the Jazz Standard, Vol. 2
by Joel Roberts
Frank Morgan was almost one of the cautionary tales of jazz history; instead, he's become one of its most remarkable survivor stories. A promising Los Angeles alto saxophonist in the '50s, he disappeared from the scene for thirty years as he battled a heroin addiction and served a series of jail terms. Morgan conquered his habit ...
Frank Morgan: Raising the Standard: Live at the Jazz Standard, Vol. 2
by Jack Bowers
Raising the Standard, Frank Morgan's second album for HighNote, is a followup to last year's widely acclaimed City Nights, recorded, like that release, before an audience at the Jazz Standard nightclub in New York City. The lineup remains the same, with Morgan accompanied by a superlative rhythm section comprised of pianist George Cables, bassist Curtis Lundy ...
City Nights
By Frank Morgan
Label: Unknown label
Released: 2004
Track listing: Georgia On My Mind; Cherokee; Summertime; All Blues; I Mean You; Round Midnight; Equinox; Impressions
Frank Morgan: City Nights
by Florence Wetzel
Jazz careers are predictably unpredictable. Some musicians shine young, some are late bloomers, and others maintain a steady flame for decades. Then there's that intriguing handful who come back after years of obscurity; contemporary examples include Henry Grimes, Sonny Simmons, and alto saxophonist Frank Morgan. Born in 1930, Morgan was fortunate to be part of the ...
Frank Morgan
by Brandt Reiter
A young acolyte of Charlie Parker, the Minneapolis-born alto saxophonist Frank Morgan saw his first leader's disc, the eponymous Frank Morgan (GNP), released in 1955; three decades would pass until he cut his second. Much of the time in between--20 years, by his own estimation--was spent in prison, on various drug-related charges (unfortunately Morgan had absorbed ...
Central Avenue Reunion
By Art Farmer
Label: Contemporary Records
Released: 1990
Track listing: Star Eyes; Farmer's Market; Embraceable You; Blue Minor; I Remember You; Don't Blame Me; Cool Struttin';
