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Joe Morris

Joe Morris

Guitarist/Bassist/Percussionist Joe Morris has performed and/or recorded with many of the most impactful contemporary artists in improvised music including, Anthony Braxton, Wadada Leo Smith, Evan Parker, John Zorn, Ken Vandermark, Barry Guy, Mary Halvorson, Tyshawn Sorey, William Parker, Dewey Redman, Marshall Allen, Matthew Shipp, Tomeka Reid, Ikue Mori, John Butcher, Agusti Fernandez, David S.Ware, Peter Evans, Joe Maneri, Joe McPhee, Joelle Leandre, Nicolle Mitchell, etc.

He is featured leading his own groups as a sideman or collaborator on more than 170 recordings on the labels ECM, ESPdisk, Clean Feed, Hat Hut, Aum Fidelity, Avant, OkkaDisk, Not Two, Soul Note, Leo, No Business, Rogue Art, Relative Pitch, Incus, RareNoise, Fundacja Sluchaj, Mahakala Music, his own labels Riti and Glacial Erratic and others. Morris has toured extensively throughout North America and Europe as well as in Brazil, Korea and Japan. He has lectured and conducted workshops on his own music and on improvisation throughout the U.S, including at Princeton University, Dartmouth College and Harvard University as well as in Canada, Korea, Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden, Belgium and Ireland.. Since 2000, he has been on the faculty in the Jazz and Contemporary Musical Arts Department at New England Conservatory of Music. Morris is the author of the book, Perpetual Frontier: The Properties of Free Music (Riti Publishing 2012).

Discography

Ultra

By Joe Morris / Agusti Fernandez / Tanya Kalmanovitch / Yasmine Azaiez / Junko Fujiwara