Free improvisation reaches its apex when performers evoke the feeling of a composition. The music isn’t written in advance, but the players communicate in a … Read More “Brad Barrett/Joe Morris/Tyshawn Sorey: Cowboy Transfiguration (Fundacja Sluchaj)”
The 15th annual DC Jazz Festival marked the full maturation of an event that began in 2004 as the Duke Ellington Jazz Festival; it’s been … Read More “Live Review: DC Jazz Festival 2019”
Ticonderoga has an irresistible backstory. Jamie Saft and Joe Morris discovered a mutual love for John Coltrane’s much-maligned 1966 album Live at the Village Vanguard … Read More “Joe McPhee/Jamie Saft/Joe Morris/Charles Downs: Ticonderoga”
Remarkably, despite their heftily prolific discographies and the fact that their list of collaborators comprises a Venn diagram with little non-overlapping space, Altitude marks the … Read More “Joe Morris/William Parker/Gerald Cleaver : Altitude”
Ivo Perelman is a commitment. You must be willing to put yourself through hell and alienate your neighbors in order to arrive at his brutal … Read More “Ivo Perelman/Joe Morris/Gerald Cleaver : Family Ties”
Sometimes, it is just easier to let the mind go and be “one” with music rather trying to analyze it. Such is the case with … Read More “The Spanish Donkey: Joe Morris, Jamie Saft, Mike Pride: XYX”
In Parrhesia, trumpeter Stephen Haynes, bassist and guitarist Joe Morris, and percussionist Warren Smith bring to light that the interaction and exchange of the phrasing … Read More “Stephen Haynes/ Joe Morris/ Warren Smith: Parrhesia”
Followers of pianist Matthew Shipp’s music know that it is cerebral, actualized only in improvisation. In Night Logic, Shipp collaborated with Arkestra alto saxophone player, … Read More “Marshall Allen/Matthew Shipp/Joe Morris: Night Logic”
To say that Boston-based electric guitarist/upright bassist Joe Morris is prolific would be an obvious understatement. In 2009 alone he released six albums, including this … Read More “Joe Morris Quartet: Today on Earth”
