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Morris Gearring

Morris Gearring encountered Oscar Brown’s genius for the first time at a speaking engagement of Maya Angelou’s in Chicago in 1985. “I was blown away,” said Morris of the experience and meeting Oscar after the show as invited into Oscar’s Hyde Park home where his tutelage with the master began alongside Oscar’s daughter Maggie Brown. The next year, Morris traveled with Oscar, Jean Pace, Oscar’s son – Oscar Brown II – and Maggie to the Carlos One Supper Club in Manhattan. The show was misunderstood by the owner and closed soon after. Oscar, however, would have none of it and immediately embarked on his next project. Sadly, the great man passed away in 2005 and his legacy somewhat dimmed