Frank Morgan suffered a serious stroke ten years ago which put a halt to his recording career until City Nights (HighNote, 2004), which he followed up with Raising the Standard: Live at the Jazz ...

Frank Morgan, 73, a jazz saxophonist of impeccable ability, whose claim to the mantle of the celebrated Charlie Parker was clouded by his heroin addiction, died Dec. 14 at his home in Minneapolis.

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 ...

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 ...