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Frank Morgan (musician)

Index Frank Morgan (musician)

Frank Morgan (December 23, 1933 – December 14, 2007) was a jazz saxophonist with a career spanning more than 50 years. [1]

148 relations: Abbey Lincoln, Al Foster, All About Jazz, All Media Network, AllMusic, Alto saxophone, Antilles Records, Art Farmer, Art Pepper, Artists' Quarter, Avery Sharpe, Barry Harris, Bebop, Ben Sidran, Billboard (magazine), Billie Holiday, Billy Hart, Billy Higgins, Bird (1988 film), Bobby Hutcherson, Bobby Timmons, Bud Shank, Buster Williams, Carl Perkins, Cedar Walton, Central Avenue Reunion, Charlie Parker, Chico Hamilton, Clarinet, Clifford Brown, Clint Eastwood, Colorectal cancer, Conte Candoli, Contemporary Records, Curtis Lundy, Dakota Jazz Club, David "Happy" Williams, Dexter Gordon, Double Image (album), Duke Ellington, Ed Thigpen, Embouchure, Fence (criminal), Forest Whitaker, Forgery, Four Saxophones in Twelve Tones, Freddy Martin, George Cables, George W. S. Trow, GNP Crescendo Records, ..., Grace Kelly (musician), Grady Tate, Grammy Museum, Half Moon Bay, California, Hank Jones, Harlan Leonard, Harold Land, HighNote Records, Hollywood, Howard Roberts, Irv Williams, Jack Sheldon, James Clay (musician), Jay McShann, Jazz, JazzTimes, Jefferson High School (Los Angeles), Jimmy Cobb, Joe Henderson, John Hicks (pianist), Johnny Coles, Johnny Hodges, Josephine Baker, Kenny Barron, Kenny Burrell, Kenny Clarke, L. Subramaniam, LA Film Festival, Larance Marable, Leroy Vinnegar, Leroy Williams, Lewis Nash, Lionel Hampton, Louis Hayes, Machito, Major Changes, Marian McPartland, Mark Gross, Mark Murphy (singer), Max Roach, McCoy Tyner, Meet Milt Jackson, Merv Griffin, Michael Connelly, Milestone Records, Milt Jackson, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Monterey Jazz Festival, Mulgrew Miller, New York City, NPR, Over the Rainbow, Penguin Books, Peter Schimke, Prestige Records, Ray Brown (musician), Ray Conniff, Ray Drummond, Rodney Kendrick, Roland Hanna, Ron Carter, Ronnie Mathews, Roy Hargrove, Roy McCurdy, San Quentin State Prison, Savoy Records, Saxophone, Sonny Criss, Sonny Rollins, Soprano saxophone, Sound of Redemption: The Frank Morgan Story, Spud Murphy, Star Tribune, Stroke, Teddy Charles, Telarc International Corporation, Terry Gibbs, The Independent, The Ink Spots, The New York Times, The Overlook, The Penguin Guide to Jazz, Tommy Flanagan, Tompkins Square Park, Tony Dumas, Trend Records, Twin Cities Hot Summer Jazz Festival, Twogether (John Hicks and Frank Morgan album), Verve Records, Victor Lewis, Village Vanguard, Walter Booker, Wardell Gray, West Coast of the United States, Wild Bill Davis, Wynton Marsalis, Yoshi's (jazz club). Expand index (98 more) »

Abbey Lincoln

Anna Marie Wooldridge (August 6, 1930 – August 14, 2010), known by her stage name Abbey Lincoln, was an African-American jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actress, who wrote and performed her own compositions.

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Al Foster

Al Foster (born January 18, 1944) is an American jazz drummer.

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All About Jazz

All About Jazz is a website established by Michael Ricci in 1995.

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All Media Network

All Media Network (formerly All Media Guide (AMG) and AllRovi) is an American company that owns and maintains AllMusic, AllMovie, AllGame (until its closure in 2014), SideReel and Celebified.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Alto saxophone

The alto saxophone, also referred to as the alto sax, is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in the 1840s, and patented in 1846.

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Antilles Records

Antilles Records was a record label founded as a division of Island Records.

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Art Farmer

Arthur Stewart Farmer (August 21, 1928 – October 4, 1999) was an American jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player.

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Art Pepper

Arthur Edward Pepper Jr. (September 1, 1925 – June 15, 1982) was an American alto saxophonist and very occasional tenor saxophonist and clarinetist.

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Artists' Quarter

The Artists' Quarter (a.k.a. the AQ) was a well-known, musician-owned and operated jazz club in the Twin Cities.

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Avery Sharpe

Avery Sharpe (born August 23, 1954) is an American jazz double-bassist.

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Barry Harris

Barry Doyle Harris (born December 15, 1929) is an American jazz pianist, bandleader, composer, arranger and educator.

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Bebop

Bebop or bop is a style of jazz developed in the early to mid-1940s in the United States, which features songs characterized by a fast tempo, complex chord progressions with rapid chord changes and numerous changes of key, instrumental virtuosity, and improvisation based on a combination of harmonic structure, the use of scales and occasional references to the melody.

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Ben Sidran

Ben Hirsh Sidran (born August 14, 1943) is an American jazz and rock keyboardist, producer, label owner, and music writer.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.

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Billie Holiday

Eleanora Fagan (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959), better known as Billie Holiday, was an American jazz singer with a career spanning nearly thirty years.

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Billy Hart

Billy Hart (born November 29, 1940) is an American jazz drummer and educator.

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Billy Higgins

Billy Higgins (October 11, 1936 – May 3, 2001) was an American jazz drummer.

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Bird (1988 film)

Bird is a 1988 American biographical film, produced and directed by Clint Eastwood from a screenplay by Joel Oliansky.

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Bobby Hutcherson

Robert Hutcherson (January 27, 1941 – August 15, 2016) was an American jazz vibraphone and marimba player.

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Bobby Timmons

Robert Henry "Bobby" Timmons (December 19, 1935 – March 1, 1974) was an American jazz pianist and composer.

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Bud Shank

Clifford Everett "Bud" Shank, Jr. (May 27, 1926 – April 2, 2009) was an American alto saxophonist and flautist.

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Buster Williams

Charles Anthony "Buster" Williams (born April 17, 1942 in Camden, New Jersey) is an American jazz bassist.

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Carl Perkins

Carl Lee Perkins (April 9, 1932 – January 19, 1998)Pareles. was an American singer-songwriter who recorded most notably at the Sun Studio, in Memphis, beginning in 1954.

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Cedar Walton

Cedar Anthony Walton, Jr. (January 17, 1934 – August 19, 2013) was an American hard bop jazz pianist.

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Central Avenue Reunion

Central Avenue Reunion is a live album by Art Farmer and Frank Morgan recorded in Emeryville, CA in 1989 and originally released on the Contemporary label.

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Charlie Parker

Charles Parker Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), also known as Yardbird and Bird, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.

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Chico Hamilton

Foreststorn "Chico" Hamilton, (September 20, 1921 – November 25, 2013) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader.

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Clarinet

The clarinet is a musical-instrument family belonging to the group known as the woodwind instruments.

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Clifford Brown

Clifford Benjamin Brown (October 30, 1930 – June 26, 1956), also known as "Brownie", was an American jazz trumpeter.

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Clint Eastwood

Clinton Eastwood Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American actor, filmmaker, musician, and political figure.

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Colorectal cancer

Colorectal cancer (CRC), also known as bowel cancer and colon cancer, is the development of cancer from the colon or rectum (parts of the large intestine).

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Conte Candoli

Secondo "Conte" Candoli (July 12, 1927 – December 14, 2001) was an American jazz trumpeter based on the West Coast.

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Contemporary Records

Contemporary Records was a jazz record company and label founded by Lester Koenig in Los Angeles in 1951.

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Curtis Lundy

Curtis Lundy (born October 1, 1955) is an American double bass player, composer, producer, choir director and arranger.

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Dakota Jazz Club

The Dakota Jazz Club and Restaurant is a jazz club in Twin Cities, Minnesota.

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David "Happy" Williams

David "Happy" Williams is a US-based Trinidadian jazz double-bassist, who has been a long-time member of Cedar Walton's group.

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Dexter Gordon

Dexter Gordon (February 27, 1923 – April 25, 1990) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Double Image (album)

Double Image is an album of duets by saxophonist Frank Morgan and pianist George Cables recorded in 1986 and originally released on the Contemporary label.

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Duke Ellington

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death in a career spanning over fifty years.

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Ed Thigpen

Edmund Leonard Thigpen (December 28, 1930 – January 13, 2010) was an American jazz drummer, best known for his work with the Oscar Peterson trio from 1959 to 1965.

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Embouchure

Embouchure or lipping is the use of the lips, facial muscles, tongue, and teeth in playing a wind instrument.

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Fence (criminal)

A fence, also known as a receiver, mover, moving man, or thiefspawn, is an individual who knowingly buys stolen goods in order to later resell them for profit.

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Forest Whitaker

Forest Steven Whitaker III (born July 15, 1961) is an American actor, producer, and director.

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Forgery

Forgery is the process of making, adapting, or imitating objects, statistics, or documents with the intent to deceive for the sake of altering the public perception, or to earn profit by selling the forged item.

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Four Saxophones in Twelve Tones

Four Saxophones in Twelve Tones is an album by composer/arranger Lyle Murphy recorded in 1954 and released on the GNP label.

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Freddy Martin

Frederick Alfred (Freddy) Martin (December 9, 1906 – September 30, 1983) was an American bandleader and tenor saxophonist.

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George Cables

George Andrew Cables (born November 14, 1944) is an American jazz pianist and composer.

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George W. S. Trow

George William Swift Trow, Jr. (September 28, 1943 – November 24, 2006) was an American essayist, novelist, playwright, and media critic.

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GNP Crescendo Records

GNP Crescendo Record Co. is an independent record label founded in 1954 by Gene Norman.

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Grace Kelly (musician)

Grace Kelly (born Grace Chung; May 15, 1992) is an American musician, singer, entertainer, songwriter and arranger.

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Grady Tate

Grady Bernard Tate (January 14, 1932 – October 8, 2017) was an American hard bop and soul-jazz drummer and singer with a distinctive baritone voice.

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Grammy Museum

The Grammy Museum is any of a group of museums containing exhibits relating to winners of the Grammy Award for achievement in recording.

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Half Moon Bay, California

Half Moon Bay is a coastal city in San Mateo County, California, United States.

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Hank Jones

Henry "Hank" Jones Jr. (July 31, 1918 – May 16, 2010) was an American jazz pianist, bandleader, arranger, and composer.

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Harlan Leonard

Harlan Leonard (July 2, 1905 – November 10, 1983) was an American jazz bandleader and clarinetist from Kansas City, Missouri.

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Harold Land

Harold de Vance Land (December 18, 1928 – July 27, 2001) was an American hard bop and post-bop tenor saxophonist.

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HighNote Records

HighNote Records is a jazz record company and label founded by Joe Fields with his son, Barney Fields, in 1997.

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Hollywood

Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California.

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Howard Roberts

Howard Roberts (October 2, 1929 – June 28, 1992) was an American jazz guitarist, educator, and session musician.

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Irv Williams

Irv Williams (born August 17, 1919) is an African-American jazz saxophonist and composer.

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Jack Sheldon

Jack Sheldon (born November 30, 1931) is an American bebop and West Coast jazz trumpeter, singer, and actor.

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James Clay (musician)

James Earl Clay (b. Sept. 8, 1935, Dallas, Texas - d. there, Jan. 1, 1994) was an American hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist and flutist.

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Jay McShann

James Columbus "Jay" McShann (January 12, 1916 – December 7, 2006) was a jazz pianist and bandleader.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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JazzTimes

JazzTimes is an American magazine devoted to jazz.

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Jefferson High School (Los Angeles)

Thomas Jefferson High School, usually referred to as Jefferson High School, is a public high school in the Los Angeles Unified School District.

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Jimmy Cobb

Wilbur James Cobb (born January 20, 1929, in Washington, D.C.) is an American jazz drummer.

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Joe Henderson

Joe Henderson (April 24, 1937 – June 30, 2001) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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John Hicks (pianist)

John Josephus Hicks, Jr. (December 21, 1941 – May 10, 2006) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger.

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Johnny Coles

Johnny Coles (July 3, 1926 in Trenton, New Jersey – December 21, 1997 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was an American jazz trumpeter.

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Johnny Hodges

John Cornelius Hodges (July 25, 1907 – May 11, 1970) was an American alto saxophonist, best known for solo work with Duke Ellington's big band.

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Josephine Baker

Josephine Baker (born Freda Josephine McDonald; 3 June 1906 – 12 April 1975) was an American-born French entertainer, activist, and French Resistance agent.

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Kenny Barron

Kenny Barron (born June 9, 1943) is an American jazz pianist, who has appeared on hundreds of recordings as leader and sideman and is considered one of the most influential mainstream jazz pianists since the bebop era.

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Kenny Burrell

Kenneth Earl Burrell (born July 31, 1931) is an American jazz guitarist known for his work on the Blue Note label.

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Kenny Clarke

Kenneth Spearman Clarke (January 9, 1914January 26, 1985), nicknamed "Klook" and later known as Liaquat Ali Salaam, was a jazz drummer and bandleader.

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L. Subramaniam

Pandit Dr.

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LA Film Festival

The LA Film Festival is an annual film festival held in September in Los Angeles, California.

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Larance Marable

Larance Marable (May 21, 1929 - July 4, 2012) was a West Coast jazz hard bop drummer born in Los Angeles, California, probably best known for his work with Charlie Haden in his Quartet West.

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Leroy Vinnegar

Leroy Vinnegar (July 13, 1928 – August 3, 1999) was an American jazz bassist.

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Leroy Williams

Leroy Williams (born 1937) is an American jazz drummer.

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Lewis Nash

Lewis Nash (born December 30, 1958) is an American jazz drummer.

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Lionel Hampton

Lionel Leo Hampton (April 20, 1908 – August 31, 2002) was an American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, bandleader and actor.

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Louis Hayes

Louis Hayes (born May 31, 1937) is an American jazz drummer.

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Machito

Machito (born Francisco Raúl Gutiérrez Grillo, December 3, 1908?–April 19, 1984) was a Latin jazz musician who helped refine Afro-Cuban jazz and create both Cubop and salsa music.

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Major Changes

Major Changes is a 1987 album by Frank Morgan with the McCoy Tyner Trio released on the Contemporary label.

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Marian McPartland

Margaret Marian McPartland, OBE (née Turner;Hasson, Claire,. PhD Thesis. Retrieved 12 August 2008. 20 March 1918 – 20 August 2013), was an English-American jazz pianist, composer and writer.

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Mark Gross

Mark Gross (born February 20, 1966) is a Baltimore-born jazz alto saxophonist of the hard bop tradition.

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Mark Murphy (singer)

Mark Howe Murphy (March 14, 1932 – October 22, 2015) was an American jazz singer based at various times in New York City, Los Angeles, London, and San Francisco.

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Max Roach

Maxwell Lemuel Roach (January 10, 1924 – August 16, 2007) was an American jazz drummer and composer.

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McCoy Tyner

Alfred McCoy Tyner (born December 11, 1938) is a jazz pianist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, known for his work with the John Coltrane Quartet and a long solo career.

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Meet Milt Jackson

Meet Milt Jackson is an album by American jazz vibraphonist Milt Jackson featuring performances recorded between 1949 and 1956 and released on the Savoy label.

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Merv Griffin

Mervyn Edward Griffin Jr. (July 6, 1925 – August 12, 2007) was an American television host and media mogul.

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Michael Connelly

Michael Connelly (born July 21, 1956) is an American author of detective novels and other crime fiction, notably those featuring LAPD Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch and criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller.

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Milestone Records

Milestone Records is an American jazz record company and label founded in 1966 by Orrin Keepnews and Dick Katz in New York City.

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Milt Jackson

Milton "Bags" Jackson (January 1, 1923 – October 9, 1999) was an American jazz vibraphonist, usually thought of as a bebop player, although he performed in several jazz idioms.

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Minneapolis

Minneapolis is the county seat of Hennepin County, and the larger of the Twin Cities, the 16th-largest metropolitan area in the United States.

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Minnesota

Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwest and northern regions of the United States.

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Monterey Jazz Festival

The Monterey Jazz Festival (MJF), in Monterey, California, is one of the world's longest consecutively running jazz festivals.

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Mulgrew Miller

Mulgrew Miller (August 13, 1955 – May 29, 2013) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and educator.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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NPR

National Public Radio (usually shortened to NPR, stylized as npr) is an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization based in Washington, D.C. It serves as a national syndicator to a network of over 1,000 public radio stations in the United States.

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Over the Rainbow

"Over the Rainbow" is a ballad, with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Yip Harburg.

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Penguin Books

Penguin Books is a British publishing house.

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Peter Schimke

Peter Schimke (born in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American piano player, songwriter, composer, session musician and producer.

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Prestige Records

Prestige Records is a jazz record company and label founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock in New York City.

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Ray Brown (musician)

Raymond Matthews Brown (October 13, 1926 – July 2, 2002) was an African American jazz double bassist known for extensive work with Oscar Peterson and Ella Fitzgerald.

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Ray Conniff

Joseph Raymond Conniff (November 6, 1916 – October 12, 2002) was an American bandleader and arranger best known for his Ray Conniff Singers during the 1960s.

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Ray Drummond

Ray Drummond (born November 23, 1946 in Brookline, Massachusetts) is a jazz bassist and teacher.

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Rodney Kendrick

Rodney Kendrick (born April 30, 1960) is an American jazz pianist, bandleader, composer, and producer.

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Roland Hanna

Roland Pembroke Hanna (February 10, 1932 – November 13, 2002) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and teacher.

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Ron Carter

Ronald Levin "Ron" Carter (born May 4, 1937) is an American jazz double bassist.

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Ronnie Mathews

Ronald Mathews (December 2, 1935 in New York City – June 28, 2008 in Brooklyn) was an American jazz pianist who worked with Max Roach from 1963 to 1968 and Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers.

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Roy Hargrove

Roy Anthony Hargrove (born October 16, 1969) is an American jazz trumpeter.

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Roy McCurdy

Roy McCurdy (born November 28, 1936) is a jazz drummer.

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San Quentin State Prison

San Quentin State Prison (SQ) is a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation state prison for men, located north of San Francisco in the unincorporated town of San Quentin in Marin County.

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Savoy Records

Savoy Records is an American record company and label established by Herman Lubinsky in 1942 in Newark, New Jersey.

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Saxophone

The saxophone (also referred to as the sax) is a family of woodwind instruments.

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Sonny Criss

William "Sonny" Criss (23 October 1927 – 19 November 1977) was an American jazz musician.

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Sonny Rollins

Walter Theodore "Sonny" Rollins (born September 7, 1930) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist who is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians.

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Soprano saxophone

The soprano saxophone is a higher-register variety of the saxophone, a woodwind instrument, invented in the 1840s.

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Sound of Redemption: The Frank Morgan Story

Sound of Redemption: The Frank Morgan Story is a 2014 documentary film directed by N.C. Heikin.

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Spud Murphy

Miko Stephanovic (August 19, 1908 – August 5, 2005), better known as Lyle 'Spud' Murphy, was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, bandleader, and arranger.

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Star Tribune

The Star Tribune is the largest newspaper in Minnesota.

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Stroke

A stroke is a medical condition in which poor blood flow to the brain results in cell death.

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Teddy Charles

Teddy Charles (April 13, 1928 – April 16, 2012) was an American jazz musician and composer whose instruments were the vibraphone, piano, and drums.

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Telarc International Corporation

Telarc International Corporation is an American audiophile independent record label founded in 1977 by two classically trained musicians and former teachers, Jack Renner and Robert Woods.

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Terry Gibbs

Terry Gibbs (born Julius Gubenko, October 13, 1924) is an American jazz vibraphonist and band leader.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Ink Spots

The Ink Spots were an American pop vocal group who gained international fame in the 1930s and 1940s.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Overlook

The Overlook is the 18th novel by American crime writer Michael Connelly, and the thirteenth featuring the Los Angeles detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch.

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The Penguin Guide to Jazz

The Penguin Guide to Jazz is a reference work containing an encyclopedic directory of jazz recordings on CD which are currently available in Europe or the United States.

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Tommy Flanagan

Thomas Lee Flanagan (March 16, 1930 – November 16, 2001) was an American jazz pianist and composer.

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Tompkins Square Park

Tompkins Square Park is a public park in the Alphabet City portion of East Village, Manhattan, New York City.

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Tony Dumas

Tony Dumas (born August 25, 1972) is an American retired professional basketball player.

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Trend Records

Trend Records was a post-World War II United States jazz record label.

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Twin Cities Hot Summer Jazz Festival

The Twin Cities Jazz Festival is one of the largest, free civic events in the upper Midwest, attracting 30,000 people.

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Twogether (John Hicks and Frank Morgan album)

Twogether is an album by pianist John Hicks and alto saxophonist Frank Morgan.

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Verve Records

Verve Records, founded in 1956 by Norman Granz, is home to the world’s largest jazz catalogue and includes recordings by artists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Stan Getz and Billie Holiday, among others.

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Victor Lewis

Victor Lewis (born May 20, 1950, Omaha, Nebraska) is an American jazz drummer.

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Village Vanguard

The Village Vanguard is a jazz club located at Seventh Avenue South in Greenwich Village, New York City.

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Walter Booker

Walter Booker (December 17, 1933 – November 24, 2006) was an American jazz musician.

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Wardell Gray

Wardell Gray (February 13, 1921 – May 25, 1955) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist who straddled the swing and bebop periods.

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West Coast of the United States

The West Coast or Pacific Coast is the coastline along which the contiguous Western United States meets the North Pacific Ocean.

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Wild Bill Davis

Wild Bill Davis (November 24, 1918 – August 17, 1995) was the stage name of American jazz pianist, organist, and arranger William Strethen Davis.

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Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is an American trumpeter, composer, teacher, and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center.

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Yoshi's (jazz club)

Yoshi's (also known as Yoshi's Jazz Club and Yoshi's Oakland) is a nightclub located within Jack London Square in Oakland, California.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Morgan_(musician)

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