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Chris Morrissey

Chris Morrissey is a songwriter, a bassist, a singer, a music director, a leo, an uncle, a lover of most cats and some dogs, a New Yorker, a Minnesotan, a yoga practicer, a wino, a restaurant frequenter, and joke teller/appreciator. As a bassist, he's logged hundreds of thousands of miles touring five continents with the Jim Campilongo Trio, Mark Guiliana Jazz Quartet, Beat Music, Dave King Trucking Company, Sara Bareilles, Chris Thile’s “Live From Here” house band, Margaret Glaspy, Boy George, Ben Kweller, Andrew Bird, Mason Jennings, Gretchen Parlato, Trixie Whitley, Gabriel Kahane, and Amy Helm. As a music director, he assembled bands, arranged and rehearsed repertoire for tour and TV for Sara Bareilles (on her Album of the Year Grammy nominated “The Blessed Unrest” tours), Sharon Van Etten (Remind Me Tomorrow tours), Trixie Whitley (Porta Bohemica tours), and Elle King (Shake The Spirit tours). As a composer and band leader, Mr

Festival International de Jazz de Montréal 2023

by Mark Sullivan
July 19, 2023

Festival International de Jazz de Montreal Montreal, Quebec June 29-July 3, 2023 The 2023 festival continued the broad offering of free shows that was so prominent last year. They were frequently strong enough to vie with the ticketed concerts (which were also quite diverse and featured marquee artists from jazz and adjacent ...

The Sound Of Listening

By Mark Guiliana

Label: Edition Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: The Path To Bliss; The Most Important Question; A Way Of Looking; Our Essential Nature; The Courage To Be Free; Everything Changed After You Left; The Sound Of Listening; Under The Influence; Practicing Silence; Continuation.

Mark Guiliana, Chris Morrissey, Jason Rigby and Shai Maestro at Bluenote in Milan

by Roberto Cifarelli
November 19, 2022

Mark Guiliana Jazz Quartet: The Sound Of Listening

by Chris May
September 24, 2022

There is something tantalisingly out of reach on the Mark Guiliana Jazz Quartet's The Sound Of Listening. It is not “difficult" music, but it is cryptic. After multiple replays the code remains unbroken. It seems something important is going on but... what exactly? It is rather like encountering Guiliana's fellow New Yorker, tenor saxophonist Oded Tzur ...

Sylvie Courvoisier, Mary Halvorson, Chris Morrissey, Mathias Eick & Other New Releases

by Ludovico Granvassu
November 2, 2021

Another truckload of great new and upcoming albums this week, for a show that highlights the beauty of jazz projects which are not aligned with the esthetics of major labels. Happy listening! PlaylistBen Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Kurt Elling “Circus" SuperBlue (Edition) 0:16 Host talks ...

Mark Guiliana: Jersey

by Geno Thackara
September 22, 2017

With an all-encompassing style that keeps him in high demand throughout the jazz world and beyond, perhaps it's unsurprising (if unfortunate) that Mark Guiliana boasts only a handful of titles to his own name. The middle of the 2010s saw him drumming in sessions with Dave Douglas or Avishai Cohen (among others) to briefly subbing with ...

Mark Guiliana Jazz Quartet: Jersey

by Troy Dostert
September 16, 2017

When it comes to the boundary-stretching spirit that has become so widespread among many of today's leading jazz musicians, drummer Mark Guiliana deserves credit for being one of the most enthusiastic embodiments of this attitude. He has a longstanding passion for electronic music, as heard especially on the releases on his own Beat Music label (2014's ...

Mark Guiliana: A Natural Progression of Research

by Angelo Leonardi
September 8, 2017

Mark Guiliana is a prominent figure among the new wave of drummer-leaders of his generation. The upcoming album Jersey is the second with his Jazz Quartet and marks his debut for Motema Music. All About Jazz met him last July, before his performance at the Malta Jazz Festival, to speak about his ability to seamlessly integrate ...

Mark Guiliana: a natural progression of research

by Angelo Leonardi
August 28, 2017

Esponenente di punta della nuova generazione di batteristi/leader, Mark Guiliana sta per pubblicare il nuovo album del suo quartetto acustico, Jersey (Motema Music) da noi recensito in anteprima, che vede la presenza del pianista Fabian Almazan al posto di Shai Maestro. Una tappa del suo lungo tour estivo era il Jazz Festival di Malta di fine ...