Joe Morris News

We wrote about the Atlantic Records Time Capsule. The 10 disc box set capturing 60 years of Atlantic Records has just been released in the USA.

So, off the top of my head, in alphabetical order, here are the 30 jazz discs that I have dug the most from this decade which is now drawing to a close... Alegria by Wayne Shorter Amarosa by Rosa Passos Avatar by Gonzalo Rubalcaba Beautiful Existence by Joe Morris Back East by Joshua Redman Betwixt by Pandelis Karayorgis Chasin the Gypsy by James ...

NEARLY 12 months after being hit hard by shop closures, Stourbridgea s Ryemarket shopping centre is starting to look healthier.

Not Two Records Guitarist Joe Morris continues his 2002 experimentation with the double-bass. On Fine Objects , he leads a trio of saxophone, bass, and drums through two of his own compositions, a couple of trio improvisations, and other compositions by Ornette Coleman , Eric Dolphy , Larry Clinton and Petr Cancura .

A jazz artist who balances a sharp ear for melody with an intellect inspired by improvisation's outer reaches, Joe Morris is part of a community of musicians who play what has been called the downtown jazz, avant-garde, free jazz or even just free music scenes.

Since taking up the bass in 2000, guitarist Joe Morris has split his recording and performing time between his new upright and his original axe.

The half-baked notion that jazz has become a soundtrack for the AARP set is handily dashed by the New Languages Festival, six nights of concerts that show off a lot of ambition and invention among a rising generation of players, composers, improvisers and bandleaders.

DISCOUNT chain Home Bargains has taken over the empty Woolworths store in Prestatyn.

There has been no shortage of live Bjork documentation in recent seasons. So lets file Voltaic , released by Nonesuch a couple of weeks ago, under the category of Things We Didnt Think We Needed.

Widely revered in avant garde music circles for his innovative approach to the electric guitar, Joe Morris' decision to take up the contrabass in 2002 was initially met with apprehension from certain corners of the new music community.

Go Left Fest @ Yoshi's , San Francisco, CA Monday, June 22 & Tuesday, June 23, 2009 featuring: Marshall Allen : alto saxophone, evi , flute Matthew Shipp : piano Joe Morris : bass Sunny Murray : drums Oluyemi Thomas : reeds Roswell Rudd : trombone Myra Melford : piano Mark Dresser : bass Ishmael Reed : poetry Lafayette Harris : piano Beth Custer : ...

Jazz performance and concert production is hardly thriving in Washington, D.C. Clubs have either closely entirely or altered programming significantly so as to focus on music deemed to have wider commercial appeal.