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Raising the Standard: Live at the Jazz Standard, Vol. 2

Label: HighNote Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Footprints; Nefertiti; Don

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Frank Morgan: Raising the Standard: Live at the Jazz Standard, Vol. 2

Read "Raising the Standard: Live at the Jazz Standard, Vol. 2" reviewed 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 ...

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Frank Morgan: Raising the Standard: Live at the Jazz Standard, Vol. 2

Read "Raising the Standard: Live at the Jazz Standard, Vol. 2" reviewed 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 ...


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