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	Joe Morris - Biography
		Joe is a highly sought after drummer/percussionist whose versatile style and dedication to his instrument has earned him world tours, countless recording sessions and tracks on major motion pictures and television shows.
		Joe is also a clinician for major drum manufacturers, and the music director at the Conservatory of Recording Arts and Sciences.
		Joe Morris was chosen by The Fender Music Corporation to be the drummer on the Fender Stage at the 2002 Namm Show.
	www.joemorris.net /bio.htm (499 words)

	Sweatshop - Joe Morris - Song Listings
		While this is technically guitarist Joe Morris' second trio release, it's his first on CD.
		Of all Morris' records, this is perhaps his most accessible and his weirdest.
		In all, this is one of Morris' least-original (in terms of personal signature) works in a sense, but the ensemble playing is so deft, tight, and meaty, it is easily as enjoyable as his more groundbreaking later recordings.
	www.mp3.com /albums/479667/summary.html (553 words)

	Drummerworld: Joe Morris
		Joe is a highly sought after drummer/percussionist whose versatile style and dedication to his instrument has earned him world tours, countless recording sessions and tracks on major motion pictures and television shows.
		Joe is also a clinician for major drum manufacturers, and the music director at the Conservatory of Recording Arts and Sciences.
		Joe Morris was chosen by The Fender Music Corporation to be the drummer on the Fender Stage at the 2002 Namm Show.
	www.drummerworld.com /drummers/Joe_Morris.html (519 words)

	Pop and Jazz in Review - New York Times (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Morris, who lives in Boston, rarely comes to New York, but when he does he comes prepared; his show was precisely arranged and organized and a bit hyperactive, with riffs and solos falling all over themselves to be heard.
		Morris has taken care to keep his rhythm section clean and orderly, having it spew out long, complicated riffs that often use off-balance time signatures.
		Morris, allowing improvisation to flow within the tight boundaries of the pieces, defused the technocratic implications of the progressive rock he occasionally veered toward.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CEFDC143BF930A25751C0A964958260&sec=&pagewanted=print (221 words)

	Joe Morris (guitarist) at AllExperts
		Joe Morris (born September 13, 1955) is an American jazz guitarist.
		Morris was born in New Haven, Connecticut; an important early mentor and playing partner was the legendary but little-recorded pianist Lowell Davidson.
		Morris has stated that his flowing single-note technique was inspired more by traditional African musics, and by saxophone players like Eric Dolphy and Jimmy Lyons, than by other guitarists.
	en.allexperts.com /e/j/jo/joe_morris_(guitarist).htm (231 words)

	Joe Morris \| BX93
		Morris has developed his own, unique approach to guitar playing, composition, and improvisation which is unlike his peers.
		Morris moved to Boston where his unique approach was not initially accepted in the then-prevalent, modal-jazz scene.
		Morris became the first guitarist to lead a recording session for the prestigious Black Saint/ Soul Note records with 1994's Symbolic Gesture, and he has continued to record extensively for many outstanding labels such as ECM, Hat Hut, Leo, Incus, Okka Disk, Homestead, About Time, Knitting Factory Works, No More Records, AUM Fidelity, and Omnitone.
	www.bx93.com /performer/190267/joe-morris (385 words)

	Joe Morris (Site not responding. Last check: )
		On Elsewhere, Morris is in the company of equals: pianist Matthew Shipp, bassist William Parker, and drummer Whit Dickey, who at the time were a working trio and members of the David S. Ware Quartet.
		Morris had played or recorded previously with all of them in different combinations, so they immediately click.
		The truth is, Morris and Maneri, and a handful of other talented Boston-area players, have been performing at this level for years.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/music/96/09/19/JOE_MORRIS.html (721 words)

	Eye Weekly - Let freedom ring: Joe Morris - 01.28.99
		Morris doesn't play as if rock never happened (he has a sporadic trio called Sweatshop, which sort of answers the question, "What would the Jimi Hendrix Experience have sounded like playing free jazz?"), but he eschews the distortion and electronic stomp boxes that have become popular in the rock era.
		Morris uses such techniques pretty much all the way through "Renascent," an improvised duet with Maneri: sproingy hammer-on clusters give way to blurry, slip-sliding balalaika runs; then there are moments when you might find yourself unable to distinguish between guitar and violin.
		Morris frequently stresses the primacy of melody in his playing, yet for much of his solo in the hyperactive "Radiant Flux" he spews out notes with such rapidity that he seems to be stippling in an area of potential melodic activity rather than actually playing melodically.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_01.28.99/music/morris.php (678 words)

	Eye Weekly - Let freedom ring: Joe Morris - 01.28.99
		Morris doesn't play as if rock never happened (he has a sporadic trio called Sweatshop, which sort of answers the question, "What would the Jimi Hendrix Experience have sounded like playing free jazz?"), but he eschews the distortion and electronic stomp boxes that have become popular in the rock era.
		Morris uses such techniques pretty much all the way through "Renascent," an improvised duet with Maneri: sproingy hammer-on clusters give way to blurry, slip-sliding balalaika runs; then there are moments when you might find yourself unable to distinguish between guitar and violin.
		Morris frequently stresses the primacy of melody in his playing, yet for much of his solo in the hyperactive "Radiant Flux" he spews out notes with such rapidity that he seems to be stippling in an area of potential melodic activity rather than actually playing melodically.
	www.eyeweekly.com /eye/issue/issue_01.28.99/music/morris.php (678 words)

	Music: Busy body (The Boston Phoenix . 10-27-97)
		For my money, Joe Morris is the most exciting guitarist working in the jazz tradition.
		No other guitarist places notes in relationship to a beat as Morris does, or uses dynamics to create a pulsing sensation in lines in quite the same way.
		Morris accelerates and decelerates against the prevailing tempo to create a unique sense of elastic tension.
	weeklywire.com /ww/10-27-97/boston_music_5.html (684 words)

	Mixing many recipes into a new sound - The Boston Globe
		The pairing of drummer Han Bennink with guitarist Joe Morris for an improvised duet concert at the Institute of Contemporary Art on Monday night is something for free-jazz aficionados to get excited about.
		Morris, meanwhile, has flown somewhat under the radar, though over the years the New Haven native has collaborated with many of the same people as Bennink and drawn much praise from critics.
		Morris -- who watched Bennink, 63, play duet sets with trumpeter Dave Douglas and pianist Matthew Shipp during a four-night Bennink festival at New York's Knitting Factory eight years ago -- is very much looking forward to it.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/living/articles/2005/06/17/mixing_many_recipes_into_a_new_sound (921 words)

	Ink 19 :: Joe Morris Quartet/Joe Morris + Mat Maneri
		Guitarist Joe Morris and viola player Mat Maneri complement each other well.
		Morris plays with no distortion or sustain and threads long strings of guitar notes over Maneri's viola strokes.
		At the Old Office is a cool, and languid session with Joe Morris, Mat Maneri, Chris Lightcap (bass), and Gerald Cleaver (drums).
	www.ink19.com /issues/november2000/wetInk/musicMN/joeMorrisQuartetJoe.html (339 words)

	Guardian \| Joe Morris, Singularity (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Knitting Factory-circle guitarist Joe Morris's electric guitar playing has been described as sounding like "Albert Ayler as played by Grant Green" and as "the missing link between Hendrix and Ornette Coleman".
		Morris is fast, dense and melodically complex - he sounds as if he is scattering warped phrases from old straight jazz-guitar discs around the clangs and percussive impacts of an abstract soundscape.
		Ballad-like structures such as Atmosphere curiously suggest a kind of sleepwalking Joe Pass; the counter-melodic playing often creates the effect of two guitarists; and the playing overall is of a fluency and elegant inventiveness not that common in the often spiky world of free-music.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4464298-110760,00.html (181 words)

	reviews
		November 11, 1997 "Morris has gone to the avant-garde well to test the brink of improvisational reason, but at the same time developed a quintessential jazz-guitar tone, dark and dulcet, its vibrato squarely modulated and inimical to sonic overkill.
		Morris and co. dare themselves to create spontaneously without a net, and they dare listeners as well to demand more of the music.
		Joe Morris is as absolutely unique as any instrumentalist I've heard in years, seemingly beholden to no model whatsoever in his open-ended extrapolations of alien logic.
	www.aumfidelity.com /4review.htm (1439 words)

	Joe Morris
		JOE MORRIS was born in New Haven, Connecticut on September 13, 1955.
		The influence of Jimi Hendrix and other guitarists of that period led him to concentrate on learning to play the blues.
		Also in 1981 he began what would be a six year collaboration with the multi-instrumentalist Lowell Davidson, performing with him in a trio and a duo.
	www.joe-morris.com (778 words)

	Riti Records
		Riti is operated by legendary avant jazz guitarist, composer (and now, bassist!) Joe Morris, in order to more fully document the many distinct approaches that he and his equally gifted associates have to the Music.
		Morris and Brown are considered to be innovators and leaders in the new jazz.
		Morris makes his recording debut on bass here, and melody is at the heart of his concept, just as it is with guitar.
	www.aumfidelity.com /riti.htm (1102 words)

	PK/the mi3
		In the early years of the 21st century Nate co-founded, organized and managed the Modern Improvised Music series (a Boston concert program featuring local and international artists which continues to be a critical part of that city’s musical landscape), while pursuing increasingly intensive work with his musical associates.
		Among his musical influences are the instrumentalist/composer/bandleader model exemplified by Charles Mingus and Duke Ellington, the flexible and propulsive music of blues guitarists such as Skip James and Fred McDowell, the energy and DIY ethos of punk rock, Baroque music, and the forward thinking approach of the AACM.
		He has worked with Ken Vandermark, Joe Morris, Nate McBride, Pandelis Karayorgis, Charlie Kohlhase, and Debris; performed across the United States, Canada, and Europe; and appears on CDs released by leading independent labels like Okkadisk, Boxholder, Soul Note, Music and Arts, Buzz, and Rastascan.
	karayorgis.com /mi3.html (1216 words)

	Guitarist - Music Sage
		Guitarists, former guitarists, musicians of any kind, or even people who listen to a great deal of music are capable of discerning a good musician from a poor or so-so musician.
		Virtual Guitarist ($249.99) is a pair of VST plug-in instruments developed by Wizoo and marketed by Steinberg that merges over 1.5 GB of acoustic and electric guitar samples with a sophisticated MIDI playback and processing engine.
		In this book, jazz guitarist Jimmy Bruno lays out six fingerings for the major scales which he has found to be the most efficient in his thirty years of professional playing.
	www.musicsage.org /spinoff/topics/Guitarist&categ=Mu (2916 words)

	Review: Antennae (11/19/97)
		Imagine that you feed in guitarist Joe Morris' rapidly growing body of recorded work and something jittery and prickly barrels down the chute, some porcupine- spiny anteater-type of critter with static sparking off the quills.
		Morris is a hard-headed original as guitarists go.
		There is a passing resemblance to Sonny Sharrock, among others, but in Morris' music it's almost entirely about the single-note line with incredible attention to the bending and burnishing of each collision of string and pick.
	www.metrotimes.com /music/rr/18/08/rr18_08antennae.html (197 words)

	Amazon.ca: Many Rings: Music: Joe Morris (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Morris likes to speak of how he tries to maintain a variety of styles, so that he can follow a different approach from night to night, from band to band.
		Morris himself is the least prominent of the musicians, basically serving as the rhythmic and melodic anchor to the group--mostly he plays quiet cyclical patterns on his guitar, drawing on his interests in the rhythms and patterns of African traditional musics.
		I'm not quite sold on the rest of the band: Brown and Borca are good players but aren't authoritative enough to compel over the course of more than 60 minutes of untethered improvisation--they both fall back on the same stock of licks, on virtually every piece.
	www.amazon.ca /Many-Rings-Joe-Morris/dp/B00000J8P9 (443 words)

	Joe Morris \| Beautiful Existence
		Although guitarist Joe Morris has proven himself to be an accomplished upright bassist since adding the instrument to his arsenal in 2001, it is on the guitar that he truly shines, and nowhere more so than on Beautiful Existence.
		A tonal traditionalist, Morris abstains from electronic effects, playing dry and clean, he demonstrates clarity in his melodic conception that is staggering in its complexity.
		While navigating Morris' tricky modulating meters, however, their creative interaction and highly developed call and response interplay establish them as essential collaborators, not merely timekeepers.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=20669 (542 words)

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		Joe Moris was born in New Haven, Connecticut on September 13, 1955.
		From age 15 to 17 Joe Morris attended a student run alternative high school called The Unschool in downtown New Haven next to the campus of Yale University.
		Morris worked to establish his own voice on guitar in a free jazz context from the age of 17.
	www.indiejazz.com /ArtistDetail.aspx?ArtistID=3&p=2 (619 words)

	Joe Morris and the Daniel Levin Duo set to play Benzanon - Arts & Living
		Music magazine, The Wire, dubbed Morris "one of the most profound improvisers at work in the U.S." Growing up in New Haven, CT, Morris attended The Unschool, an alternative high school that allowed the young guitarist to concentrate on his music, and spend time at Yale attending concerts and recitals.
		In 1975, Morris made the move to Boston, where he quickly established himself as a soloist, and a capable member of large and small groups.
		In 1987, Morris' music took him to New York City, where he remained for two years performing at venues like Club Chandelier, Greenwich House and the Knitting Factory before returning to Boston in 1989.
	media.www.dailycollegian.com /media/storage/paper874/news/2006/10/23/ArtsLiving/Joe-Morris.And.The.Daniel.Levin.Duo.Set.To.Play.Benzanon-2380927.shtml?norewrite200701060822&sourcedomain=www.dailycollegian.com (452 words)

	JR.com: Joe Morris (Guitar)/Mat Maneri - Soul Search in Music: Guitar:
		Guitarist Joe Morris and violinist Mat Maneri have logged very rewarding time together in the Joe Morris Quartet, a group which springs largely from the launching pad of pre-written melodic lines.
		Morris' clean, rapidly picked lines, variegated chording, and classic jazz guitar tone mesh exquisitely with Maneri's resinous bowing and occasional bass line plucking.
		These are two individuals strongly rooted in the rich soil of a shared language; the depth of their exchanges results in a series of awesome new expressions.
	www.jr.com /xs-joe-morris-mat-maneri-soul-search-in-music-guitar--pi!3868199.html (335 words)

	Reviews of Joe Morris Quartet: UNDERTHRU (OmniTone 11904)
		"Joe Morris is the man who's made the electric guitar relevant to new jazz at the turn of the century....the music [on Underthru] is full of fascinating inner tensions."
		for the uninitiated, Morris and Maneri are among the finest improvisers on the planet....
		There's a little for everyone here while Joe Morris and co. not only journey to the outer limits of modern jazz but also uncover new and fertile territory along the way.
	www.omnitone.com /underthru/underthru-reviews.htm (421 words)

	Splendid: Departments: LiveLine: Steven Lantner and Joe Morris
		Morris played his bass standing right next to Lantner, and the two engaged in a musical dialogue in which their improvisatory communication mirrored their proximity.
		This is especially striking when you consider that Morris has really only been performing as a bassist for a few years; his other musical exploits were and are as a guitarist.
		Joe Morris and Steven Lantner's CDs are available on Riti Records through AUMFidelity.com.
	www.splendidezine.com /departments/liveline/lantner2 (732 words)

	Beautiful Existence : Joe Morris Quartet : CD Reviews : One Final Note
		When guitarist Joe Morris started playing bass a few years back, it left many listeners bemused.
		For the last two decades, Morris has been constantly tweaking his concept for jazz guitar settings, bringing on new drummers and bass players to tune and realign his floating sense of pulse and flow.
		Hobbs’ biting alto is the perfect foil to Morris guitar with a fiery phrasing that melds bop and caterwauling freedom.
	www.onefinalnote.com /reviews/m/morris-joe/beautiful-existence.asp (540 words)

	Ink 19 :: Joe Morris
		On "Many Rings," we find guitarist Joe Morris meshing wonderfully with Karen Borca (bassoon), Rob Brown (alto saxophone, flute), and my personal favorite, Andrea Parkins (accordian, sampler).
		"First Appearance" to my ears, is all Andrea Parkins, with her accordian lurking and skipping throughout the track melding with Morris' guitar scatterings and the delicate interweaving layers of Borca and Brown.
		Morris is many times content to relegate himself to the background, or rather the backbone of a piece, sacrificing solos to anchor the project.
	www.ink19.com /issues_F/99_12/wet_ink/music_mio/166_joe_morris.shtml (274 words)

	Joe Morris on MSN Music
		Biography: Joe Morris is an uncompromisingly original guitarist following in the tradition of other free-jazz guitar, conceptual innovators like Derek Bailey, Sonny Sharrock, Eugene Chadbourne, and James Ulmer.
		Morris has developed his own, unique approach to guitar playing, composition, and improvisation...Read full biography
		On his third trio outing, Joe Morris uses his rhythm section of Sebastian Steinberg and Jerry Deupree on bass and drums, respectively, acoustically.
	music.msn.com /artist/?artist=16232488 (108 words)

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