Wilber Morris
Encyclopedia
Wilber Morris was an American
jazz
double bass
player and bandleader. He was the brother of the cornetist, composer, and conductor Butch Morris
.
Wilber Morris recorded widely, and performed with such musicians as Pharoah Sanders
, Sonny Simmons
, Alan Silva
, Joe McPhee
, Horace Tapscott
, Butch Morris, Arthur Blythe
, Charles Gayle
, William Parker
, and Billy Bang
, Charles Tyler
, Dennis Charles, Roy Campbell
, Alfred 23 Harth and Rashied Ali
.
With Charles Gayle
With David Murray
United States
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jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
double bass
Double bass
The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...
player and bandleader. He was the brother of the cornetist, composer, and conductor Butch Morris
Butch Morris
Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris is an American jazz cornetist, composer and conductor.-Biography:Before his musical career, Morris served in Vietnam during the Vietnam War....
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Wilber Morris recorded widely, and performed with such musicians as Pharoah Sanders
Pharoah Sanders
Pharoah Sanders is a Grammy Award–winning American jazz saxophonist.Saxophonist Ornette Coleman once described him as "probably the best tenor player in the world." Emerging from John Coltrane's groups of the mid-60s Sanders is known for his overblowing, harmonic, and multiphonic techniques on...
, Sonny Simmons
Sonny Simmons
Huey "Sonny" Simmons is an American jazz musician.He grew up in Oakland, California, where he began playing the english horn. At age 16 he took up the alto saxophone, which became his primary instrument...
, Alan Silva
Alan Silva
Alan Silva is an American free jazz double bassist and keyboard player.-Biography:...
, Joe McPhee
Joe McPhee
Joe McPhee is an American jazz multi-instrumentalist born in Miami, Florida, a player of tenor, alto, and soprano saxophone, the trumpet, flugelhorn and valve trombone...
, Horace Tapscott
Horace Tapscott
Horace Tapscott was an American jazz pianist and composer. He formed the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra in 1961 and led the ensemble through the 1990s...
, Butch Morris, Arthur Blythe
Arthur Blythe
Arthur Blythe is an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer. His stylistic voice has a distinct vibrato and he plays within the post-bop subgenre of jazz.- Biography :...
, Charles Gayle
Charles Gayle
Charles Gayle is a free jazz saxophonist, pianist, bass clarinetist, and percussionist.-Biography:Charles Gayle was born in Buffalo, New York. Some of Gayle's history is unclear. He was apparently homeless for approximately twenty years, playing saxophone on street corners and subway platforms...
, William Parker
William Parker (musician)
William Parker is an American free jazz double bassist, poet and composer.-Biography:Parker was not formally trained as a classical player, though he did study with Jimmy Garrison, Richard Davis, and Wilbur Ware and learned the tradition. Parker is one of few jazz bassists who regularly plays arco...
, and Billy Bang
Billy Bang
Billy Bang was an American free jazz violinist and composer.-Biography:...
, Charles Tyler
Charles Tyler (musician)
Charles Lacy Tyler was an American jazz baritone saxophonist.Tyler was born in Cadiz, Kentucky and spent his childhood years in Indiana, New York City and Cleveland, Ohio...
, Dennis Charles, Roy Campbell
Roy Campbell, Jr.
Roy Campbell, Jr. is versatile trumpeter frequently linked to free jazz, though he has also performed rhythm and blues, bebop and funk at times during his career. Born in Los Angeles, California in 1952, Campbell was raised in New York. At age fifteen Campbell began learning to play trumpet and...
, Alfred 23 Harth and Rashied Ali
Rashied Ali
Rashied Ali, born Robert Patterson was an American free jazz and avant-garde jazz drummer best known for playing with John Coltrane in the last years of Coltrane's life.-Biography:...
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As leader
- 1981: Collective Improvisations (Bleu Regard)
- 1983: Wilber Force (DIW RecordsDIW RecordsDIW Records is a Japanese record label. It is a subsidiary label of Disc Union and specializes in jazz and avant garde music. Kazunori Sugiyama was an executive producer for the label before starting Tzadik Records with John Zorn.-Discography:...
) - 2001: Drum String Thing (CIMP)
As sideman
With Billy BangBilly Bang
Billy Bang was an American free jazz violinist and composer.-Biography:...
- Rainbow GladiatorRainbow GladiatorRainbow Gladiator is an album by the American jazz violinist Billy Bang recorded in 1981 and released on the Italian Soul Note label.-Reception:...
(Soul Note, 1981)
With Charles Gayle
Charles Gayle
Charles Gayle is a free jazz saxophonist, pianist, bass clarinetist, and percussionist.-Biography:Charles Gayle was born in Buffalo, New York. Some of Gayle's history is unclear. He was apparently homeless for approximately twenty years, playing saxophone on street corners and subway platforms...
- Daily BreadDaily Bread (Charles Gayle album)Daily Bread is an album by American jazz saxophonist Charles Gayle featuring performances recorded in 1995 for the Italian Black Saint label.-Reception:...
(Black Saint, 1995)
With David Murray
- Body and SoulBody and Soul (David Murray album)Body and Soul is the sixteenth album by David Murray to be released on the Italian Black Saint label. It was released in 1993 and features performances by Murray, Sonelius Smith, Wilber Morris, Rashied Ali and Taana Running.-Reception:...
- RemembrancesRemembrancesRemembrances is an album by David Murray released on the Japanese DIW label. It was released in 1991 and features seven quintet performances by Murray with Hugh Ragin, Dave Burrell, Wilber Morris and Tani Tabbal.-Reception:...
- PicassoPicasso (album)Picasso is an album by the David Murray Octet released on the Japanese DIW label. It was released in 1993 and features performances by Murray, Rasul Siddik, Hugh Ragin, Craig Harris, James Spaulding, Dave Burrell, Wilber Morris and Tani Tabbal.-Reception:...
- New Life
- Lucky FourLucky Four (album)Lucky Four is an album by David Murray released on the Tutu label. It was recorded in 1988, released in 1989, and features eight quartet performances by Murray with Wilber Morris, Dave Burrell and Victor Lewis.-Reception:...
- Murray's StepsMurray's StepsMurray's Steps is the fifth album by David Murray to be released on the Italian Black Saint label and the third to feature his Octet. It was released in 1982 and features performances by Murray, Henry Threadgill, Bobby Bradford, Lawrence "Butch" Morris, Craig Harris, Curtis Clark, Wilber Morris and...
- Ballads for Bass ClarinetBallads for Bass ClarinetBallads for Bass Clarinet is an album by David Murray released on the Japanese DIW label. Recorded on October 14 and 15, 1991, and released in 1993, the album features six quartet performances by Murray with Idris Muhammad, John Hicks and Ray Drummond....