Joe Morris

Joe Morris is an American guitarist, double bassist, composer and teacher, born in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1955. Self-taught on guitar, he moved to Boston in 1975 and has worked in free jazz and improvised music since the late 1970s, leading his first trio in 1977. Joe Morris lists Cecil Taylor, Jimmy Lyons, Eric Dolphy and West African string music among his influences, and teaches in the jazz and improvisation department of the New England Conservatory. Joe Morris started his own label, Riti, in 1981.