Frank Morgan’s appearance at Catalina Bar & Grill this week was tantalizing on the basis of his playing alone. At 71, the alto saxophonist still commands a style charged with the energy of bebop, ...

The irrepressible alto sax man Frank Morgan just keeps a cookin' and a cookin'. He's still vibrantly recording and gigging into his 70s and has lost nary a step, as evinced by a pair of excellent ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook This weekend Alto Sax player Frank Morgan brought his soulful, sweet jazz to the Bird of Paradise.

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Heroin ruins everything, yet again, in N.C. Heikin’s hurtin’ beauty of a doc. The subject is West Coast alto sax hero Frank Morgan, an upstart Crescent Avenue teen player at bop’s height — and, like ...

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 ...

Frank Morgan, who died Friday in Minneapolis on Friday at 73, was a bebop original, a hard-paying protégé of New Jazz’s inventor, Charlie Parker. Morgan emulated Parker in more ways than one. In ...

When writers and critics wrote about alto saxophonist Frank Morgan’s music in the last two decades of his life -- the “lyrical, blues-rich voice,” “the ravishing melodies” -- they also wrote of his ...

Frank Morgan, a bebop-jazz sax player who modeled his playing style after Charlie Parker's, died Dec. 14 at age 73. After some early successes, Morgan succumbed to heroin addiction, which led to 30 ...

How many chances should a guy get? If he can play jazz saxophone like Frank Morgan did, as many as he needs. Framed by a memorial concert at San Quentin, where the noted bebop player was incarcerated ...

An absorbing documentary about a gifted alto sax player and Charlie Parker's protégée, Frank Morgan. Packed with thrilling music, this hyper-emotional event forms the backbone of this riveting film.