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| 1. | Threshold
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| 2. | Mesmeric
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| 3. | A Cloud Of Black Birds
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| 4. | Emblem
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| 5. | Renascent
Morris+Maneri Duo
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| 6. | Radiant Flux
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| 7. | Take Place
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Jazz
Recorded: June 26, 1998, PBS Studios, Westwood MA
Joe Morris - guitar
Mat Maneri - violin
Chris Lightcap - bass
Jerome Deupree - drums
Produced by Joe Morris and Steven Joerg
Recorded by Peter Kontrimas
Mixed by Peter at PBS
Mastered by Chris Flam at Mindswerve
Cover Design by Anne Marcotty
In the Autumn of '98, AUM Fidelity presented this still brand new body of work from JOE MORRIS - the most distinctive guitarist composing and performing today, in any musical field. Having been busy for the past 15 years revealing the profound advances made on his instrument via equally profound musical journeys, 'A Cloud Of Black Birds' is a stand-alone masterpiece.
This quartet is one of my favorite live bands ever, capable of delivering cosmic beauty with a wide and rousing sense of swing. Each player creates their own orbit; the band itself operating as a new planetary system with the elemental Sun of Music at it's center. Yes, it comes from elsewhere, and these players together are here to channel The Music, not challenge it. So we had to record!
'A Cloud Of Black Birds', the final result, is a meditation which features all of the advancements seen live delivered here in a way that whispers wisdom like from the ages, imparted in passing, as the music continues moving forward: melody and harmony and rhythm gliding ever higher, riches to last lifetimes. -SJ
Full Liner Notes by Joe Morris:
In 1969, when I was 14 years old, after four or five years of being an angry, depressed, generally confused kid and a habitual truant, I was sent to a school for troubled children run by the State of Connecticut. I lived there for about six months and finished out the school year commuting from my home. The first couple of weeks there were scary. I was away from home and didn't know what my future would be. So I spent as much time as I could alone in my room looking out the window and thinking about the fact that I had hit bottom already in my short life.
My room looked out over a meadow to the tree-lined edge and the woods beyond. This was in the month of October. The leaves were changing colors and the wind was blowing hard. Every afternoon I watched large flocks of cross-migrating starlings fly from one side of the field to the other and from tree to tree. Their collective movement was held together by a loud and seemingly chaotic sense of order. Watching those birds quickly changed my focus from myself and my predicament to a kind of amazed contemplation at the natural beauty and mystery of that scene. The image has stayed in my head ever since. I'm sure that experiencing it helped me to grow and understand myself better.
During the winter of 1969, on a home visit, I learned to play my first chords on a friend's guitar. Learning about music and attempting to create music over the years has given me the same sense of contemplation and understanding of my personal growth as I had watching the black birds. All of the musicians who have inspired me remind me of the birds in their ability to create an elemental kind of beauty by showing order where others find chaos. My own expression is an attempt to be like that and hopefully to inspire someone to pause and think about their time in this world. -Joe Morris, August 1998
Joe Morris
Active Decades: '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: Sep 13, 1955 in New Haven, CT
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Avant-Garde, Post-Bop, Free Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz
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. However, Mr. Morris has developed his own, unique approach to guitar playing, composition, and improvisation which is unlike his peers. He usually incorporates a clean tone of the be-bop lineage for his single-note driven improvisations. His recordings are widely eclectic ranging from solo performances, traditional acoustic settings, and fusion dates to various groups with interesting instrumentation Mr. Morris spent his formative years in New Haven, Connecticut where he taught himself the guitar and immersed himself in a variety of progressive musical styles. He spent numerous weekends attending free symphonic productions at nearby Yale University which included performances of artists as diverse as Karlheinz Stockhausen, Charles Ives, and Duke Ellington. Attention to local AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians) members Leo Smith and George Lewis and a world-music radio show presented by percussionist Gerry Hemmingway also helped Mr. Morris develop his wide musical pallette. In 1975, Mr. Morris moved to Boston where his unique approach was not initially accepted in the then-prevalent, modal-jazz scene. Despite this temporary setback, and some time spent playing guitar in Europe, he developed a pivotal, collaborative relationship with multi-instrumentalist Lowell Davidson whose unique sound explorations inspired Mr. Morris to further develop his own original approach to music making. In 1981 Mr. Morris began his own label, Riti Records (named after an African, single-stringed folk-instrument), to document his prolific musical output. During the 90's he became, arguably, the most widely heralded free-jazz guitarist in jazz while recording with many avant garde luminaries. Mr. 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. Also, Mr. Morris has given lectures and workshops for Harvard University, New England Conservatory, Berklee College of Music, and other European universities. Joe Morris recordings can currently be obtained through Cadence/ North Country Distribution or his website at www.joe-morris.com.
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