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Dave Morgan

Born: September 10, 1957

The composer, improviser, and double bassist Dave Morgan has collaborated with a wide range of jazz, pop and classical artists. His most recent recording is "Blue Is More Than A Color" Morgan was a recipient of a “New Works: Creation and Presentation" grant from Chamber Music America, which resulted in his recording, The Way of the Sly Man, featuring Jack Schantz, Howie Smith, Jamey Haddad, and Dan Wall. Morgan also composed the music for The Surprise of Being—Live at Birdland by the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra featuring Joe Lovano. A Tri-C Jazz Fest concert of Morgan’s transcriptions and arrangements of the music of Frank Zappa for the Jazz Unit featuring Ernie Watts and Mark Wood earned an Award of Achievement from Northern Ohio Live. He performed this music as guest artist with the Chicago Jazz Orchestra in December 2012. Morgan collaborates in crossover projects with Apollo’s Fire, the Internationally-acclaimed Baroque ensemble, and occasionally performs with The Cleveland Orchestra as a jazz bassist and bass guitarist. The American Wind Symphony Orchestra has commissioned several pieces, including “Colors of Your Dreams,” “Reflections and Mediations”, and “The Art of Seven.” Several of Morgan’s orchestral pieces are recorded on Centaur Records. The YSU Symphonic Wind Ensemble directed by Stephen Gage has released "Made In Youngstown" which includes three of his compositions for wind ensemble, featuring several YSU faculty members as guest soloists. 

Cedar Walton Trio at Night Town

by C. Andrew Hovan
April 11, 2002

Cedar Walton Trio Night Town Cleveland Heights, Ohio April 4, 2002 Every spring, jazz fans in Cleveland can look forward to a stupefying array of festivities revolving around the Tri-C JazzFest, which happens to be America's premier educational jazz festival. Over the years, this has also meant that other jazz-related presentations ...

Madd For Tadd

By Steve Enos

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Disc 1—Central Avenue Swing; Dameron Stomp; A La Bridges; 400 Swing; Heaven’s Doors Are Open Wide; Dig It; Keep Rockin’; Society Steps Out; My Dream; Rock and Ride; Take ‘Um. Disc 2—Our Delight; Lady Bird; Soultrane; Cool Breeze; A Blue Time; Handy Andy (Gnid); I Think I’ll Go Away; Smooth as the Wind; Mating Call; Super Jet; The Squirrel.

Kent Engelhardt & Stephen Enos: Madd For Tadd

by Jack Bowers
September 26, 2023

The masterworks on this second edition of Madd for Tadd are presented on two discs, one of which bears the name of one of composer/pianist Tadd Dameron's classic themes, “Our Delight." Oddly, the other is named for the only non-Dameronian item on the menu, “Central Avenue Swing," written by saxophonist and Dameron chronicler Kent Engelhardt who ...

Madd For Tadd

Active since: 2017

When Kent J. Engelhardt, Ph.D. was rewarded a YSU Research Professorship for the 2016-2017 school year, he had no idea that his project would garner the attention it is now receiving.  Engelhardt’s project, “Tadd Dameron: The Magic Touch” is a recreation of the music on Tadd Dameron’s last album as a leader recorded in 1962.  Engelhardt transcribed and notated ten Dameron compositions including “On A Misty Night,” “Fontainbleau,” “Just Plain Talkin’,” “Our Delight,” “Dial B For Beauty,” “Look, Stop And Listen,” “Bevan’s Birthday,” and “Swift As The Wind,” as well as collabortions with lyricist Bernie Hanighen titled “You’re A Joy” and with lyricist Carl Sigman titled “If You Could See Me Now.”  Tadd Dameron was born on February 21, 1917 in Cleveland, Ohio, and is known as a composer, arranger, bandleader, and pianist.  In addition to composing for his own groups, Dameron wrote for Jimmie Lunceford, Count Basie, Coleman Hawkins, Benny Goodman, Sarah Vaughn, Dizzy Gillespie, and Ted Heath

Stephen Philip Harvey: Big Band Superhero In the Making

by John Chacona
July 6, 2022

There's a passage in “Party Song," the concluding cut on the Stephen Philip Harvey Jazz Orchestra's debut recording, Smash! (Next Level, 2022) where the band claps hands, whoops and cheers over a syncopated praise-band saxophone riff. It's pure, unbridled joy and just like the exuberance implied by the exclamation point in the album's title, it's an ...

Shark NATO on a Plane

Label: Zoho Music
Released: 2020
Track listing: Shark NATO on a Plane; July Groove / September Funk; What Barney? (the Barney Miller theme); Summertime; Into the Fourth Dimension; Professional Development; Rock Bottom; Blue Jay Way; I Feel Free; Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky.

Funk Shui NYC: Shark NATO on a Plane

by Jack Bowers
March 21, 2020

While some older listeners (and younger ones as well) may be thrown slightly off-kilter and find it hard to apprehend exactly what Funk Shui NYC is about, it must be conceded that the New York-based ensemble in all likelihood represents the future of big-band jazz, or at least a sizeable and assertive chunk of it. The ...

Blue Is More Than a Color

By Dave Morgan

Label: Being Time Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Point of Beginning; Blue Is More Than a Color; Jungian Slip; Coisa Nova; In This Moment; You Never Were; Cosmology.

Dave Morgan: Blue Is More Than a Color

by Mark Corroto
July 2, 2019

With the modern availability of inexpensive recording technology, seemingly anyone can turn out a jazz release. It is, accordingly, a pleasure when a release comes about marked by superior craftsmanship. Blue Is More Than A Color, a jazz orchestra disc, is a fine example of not only excellent sound (not an easy task with 26 pieces) ...