Thomas Morgan (born 14 August 1981) is an American jazz bassist.

Biography

Morgan began playing the cello at 7, eventually switching to upright-bass at 14. In 2003 he received his

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in Music from the Manhattan School of Music, where he studied with

Harvie Swartz Harvie S (born Harvie Swartz; December 6, 1948) is an American jazz double-bassist. He learned piano as a child and did not begin playing bass until 1967, when he was nineteen years old.Scott Yanow, Harvie Swartzat Allmusic He attended Berklee ...

and Garry Diall. He has also studied briefly with Ray Brown and Peter Herbert. Morgan has worked with

David Binney David Binney (born August 2, 1961) is an American alto saxophonist and composer. Early life Binney was born in Miami, Florida, and was raised in Carpinteria, California. From his parents, who loved music, he was exposed to albums by John C ...

, Steve Coleman,

Joey Baron Bernard Joseph Baron (born June 26, 1955 in Richmond, Virginia) is an American avant-garde jazz drummer who plays frequently with Bill Frisell and John Zorn. Music career Baron was born on June 26, 1955, in Richmond Virginia. When he was nine, ...

Josh Roseman Josh Roseman (born 5 June 1967) is an American jazz trombonist. His nickname is "Mr. Bone". He studied in Newton North High School. Roseman was born in Boston, and studied at the New England Conservatory of Music. Roseman toured Jamaica with The ...

, Brad Shepik,

Steve Cardenas Stephen Antonio Cardenas (born May 29, 1974) is an American martial artist, musician, and actor. Cardenas is best known for playing the character Rocky DeSantos, which was the second Red Power Ranger in ''Mighty Morphin Power Rangers'' and eventu ...

Timuçin Şahin Timuçin Şahin (born 3 February 1973) is a Turkish jazz guitarist and composer. He was awarded first prize at the Dutch Jazz Competition in 2001 and second prizes at the Jur Naessens Music Award in 2002, and the Deloitte Jazz Award in 2006. He h ...

Kenny Wollesen Kenny Wollesen (born 1966) is an American drummer and percussionist. Wollesen has recorded and toured with Tom Waits, Sean Lennon, Ron Sexsmith, Bill Frisell, Norah Jones, John Lurie, Myra Melford, Steven Bernstein, and John Zorn. He is a fou ...

, Gerald Cleaver, Adam Rogers and

Kenny Werner Kenny Werner (born November 19, 1951) is an American jazz pianist, composer, and author. Early life Born in Brooklyn, New York, on November 19, 1951 and then growing up in Oceanside, Long Island, Werner began playing and performing at a young ...

. He has also collaborated with

Jakob Bro Jakob Bro (born April 11, 1978) is a Danish guitarist and composer. Career Bro leads a trio with Joey Baron and Thomas Morgan. In the fall of 2016 the trio released the album ''Streams'' ( ECM). Bro also works with Palle Mikkelborg and Bro/Knak, ...

, Dan Tepfer,

Jim Black Jim Black is an American jazz drummer who has performed with Tim Berne and Dave Douglas. He attended Berklee College of Music. Career His band AlasNoAxis includes Hilmar Jensson on electric guitar, Chris Speed on tenor saxophone and clari ...

, John Abercrombie, and

Masabumi Kikuchi was a Japanese jazz pianist and composer known for his unique playing style. He worked with many diverse musicians, including Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis, McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones, Gary Peacock and Paul Motian, and collaborated with Gil Evans a ...

, and he has performed with the

Sylvie Courvoisier Sylvie Courvoisier (born 30 November 1968) is a composer, pianist and improviser. Career Courvoisier, originally from Lausanne, Switzerland, has lived in Brooklyn, New York for years. She has led several groups over the years, recorded 10 albu ...

- Mark Feldman Quartet. Morgan was featured prominently on the 2017 ECM album ''

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'' in a duet setting with guitarist

Bill Frisell William Richard Frisell (born March 18, 1951) is an American jazz guitarist, composer and arranger. Frisell first came to prominence at ECM Records in the 1980s, as both a session player and a leader. He went on to work in a variety of contexts ...

. The album documents a 2016 live performance at the

Village Vanguard The Village Vanguard is a jazz club at Seventh Avenue South in Greenwich Village, New York City. The club was opened on February 22, 1935, by Max Gordon. Originally, the club presented folk music and beat poetry, but it became primarily a jazz ...

. In 2014, Morgan's own trio, featuring keyboardist Pete Rende and drummer Dan Weiss, was reviewed in the

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by jazz critic

Ben Ratliff Ben Ratliff (born 1968 in New York City) is an American journalist, music critic and author. Ratliff is the son of an English mother and an American father, growing up in London and in Rockland County, New York. From 1996 to 2016, he wrote a ...

, who called Morgan, "a jazz musician whose presence in a recording or a performance almost automatically akesit worth your time".

Discography

As sideman

With

* ''Bastion of Sanity'' (Criss Cross, 2005) * ''Cities and Desire'' (Criss Cross, 2006) * ''In the Paint'' (Posi-Tone, 2009) With

* ''Somatic'' (Winter & Winter, 2011) * ''Actuality'' (Winter & Winter, 2014) * ''The Constant'' (Intakt, 2016) * ''Reckon'' (Intakt, 2020) With

Samuel Blaser Samuel Blaser (born 20 July 1981 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland) is a Swiss trombonist and composer. Biography Born and raised in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, Samuel Blaser lived in New York City for many years before relocating to Be ...

* ''7th Heaven'' (Between the Lines, 2008) * ''Pieces of Old Sky'' (Clean Feed, 2009) * ''Consort in Motion'' (Kind of Blue, 2011) With

* ''

Time Time is the continued sequence of existence and events that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future. It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to ...

'' (Loveland, 2011) * ''BRO/KNAK'' (Loveland, 2012) * ''December Song'' (Loveland, 2013) * ''Gefion'' (ECM, 2015) * ''Hymnotic/Salmodisk'' (Loveland, 2015) * ''Streams'' (ECM, 2016) * ''Returnings'' (ECM, 2018) * ''Bay of Rainbows'' (ECM, 2018) With Scott DuBois * ''Monsoon'' (Soul Note, 2004) * ''Tempest'' (Soul Note, 2006) * ''Banshees'' (Sunnyside, 2008) * ''Black Hawk Dance'' (Sunnyside, 2010) * ''Landscape Scripture'' (Sunnyside, 2012) * ''Winter Light'' (ACT, 2015) * ''Autumn Wind'' (ACT, 2017) With

* '' When You Wish Upon a Star'' (Okeh, 2016) * ''

'' (ECM, 2017) * ''Epistrophy'' (ECM, 2019) * '' Valentine'' (Blue Note, 2020) With others * John Abercrombie, ''Wait Till You See Her'' (ECM, 2009) *

, ''Melody in a Dream'' (Sunnyside, 2013) * Steve Cardenas, ''Charlie & Paul'' (Newvelle, 2018) * Steve Coleman, ''Harvesting Semblances and Affinities'' (Pi, 2010) * Steve Coleman, ''The Mancy of Sound'' (Pi, 2011) *

& Mark Feldman, '' To Fly to Steal'' (Intakt, 2010) * Sylvie Courvoisier & Mark Feldman, ''

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'' (Intakt, 2011) *

, ''Sunrise'' (ECM, 2012) * Masabumi Kikuchi, ''Masabumi Kikuchi/Ben Street/Thomas Morgan/Kresten Osgood'' (ILK Music, 2015) * Casimir Liberski & Tyshawn Sorey, Thomas Morgan, ''Evanescences'' (Dalang!, 2010) *

Andre Matos Andre Coelho Matos (14 September 1971 – 8 June 2019) was a Brazilian singer and musician. He was involved in the heavy metal bands Viper, Angra, Shaman and Symfonia. Since 2006, Matos had been dedicating his time to his solo career. In 20 ...

, ''Quare'' (Inner Circle Music, 2010) *

Ron Miles Ronald Glen Miles (May 9, 1963 – March 8, 2022) was an American jazz trumpeter, cornetist, and composer. He recorded for the labels Prolific (1986), Capri Records (Jazz record label), Capri (1990), and Rykodisc, Gramavision. His final album, ...

, ''I Am a Man'' (Yellowbird, 2017) *

Paul Motian Stephen Paul Motian (March 25, 1931 – November 22, 2011) was an American jazz drummer, percussionist, and composer. Motian played an important role in freeing jazz drummers from strict time-keeping duties. He first came to prominence in the ...

, ''On Broadway Vol. 5'' (Winter & Winter, 2009) * Paul Motian, ''The Windmills of Your Mind'' (Winter & Winter, 2011) *

Miles Okazaki Miles Okazaki (born 1974) is an American jazz guitarist and composer. Okazaki is a lecturer of jazz guitar at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Early life Okazaki grew up in Port Townsend, Washington. When he was six, he began lessons on ...

, ''Figurations'' (Sunnyside, 2012) * Pete Robbins, ''Waits & Measures'' (Playscape, 2006) * Pete Robbins, ''Do the Hate Laugh Shimmy'' (Fresh Sound, 2008) *

August Rosenbaum August Rosenbaum (born 1987 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Danish composer, record producer and jazz pianist. Biography Composer August Rosenbaum has won two Danish Music Awards, performed at the acclaimed Sónar Festival, and has been shortlist ...

, ''Beholder'' (Hiatus, 2010) * August Rosenbaum, ''Heights'' (Hiatus, 2013) * Timucin Sahin, ''Bafa'' (Between the Lines, 2009) *

Jen Shyu Jen Shyu (; born March 28, 1978) is an American experimental jazz vocalist, composer, multi-instrumentalist, dancer, and producer. Early life and education Shyu was born on March 28, 1978, in Peoria, Illinois, the child of Taiwanese and East Timo ...

, ''Sounds and Cries of the World'' (Pi, 2015) * Jen Shyu, ''Song of Silver Geese'' (Pi, 2017) *

Tyshawn Sorey Tyshawn Sorey (born July 8, 1980) is an American composer, multi-instrumentalist, and professor of contemporary music. Sorey has received accolades for performances, recordings, and compositions ranging from improvised solo percussion to opera, ...

, ''That/Not'' (Firehouse 12, 2007) * Tyshawn Sorey, ''Koan'' (482 Music, 2009) *

Tomasz Stanko Tomasz is a Polish given name, the equivalent of Thomas in English. Notable people with the given name include: *Tomasz Adamek (born 1976), Polish heavyweight boxer *Tomasz Arciszewski (1877–1955), Polish socialist politician and Prime Min ...

, '' Wisława'' (ECM, 2013) *

Craig Taborn Craig Marvin Taborn (; born February 20, 1970) is an American pianist, organist, keyboardist and composer. He works solo and in bands, mostly playing various forms of jazz. He started playing piano and Moog synthesizer as an adolescent and was ...

, ''

Chants A chant (from French ', from Latin ', "to sing") is the iterative speaking or singing of words or sounds, often primarily on one or two main pitches called reciting tones. Chants may range from a simple melody involving a limited set of notes ...

'' (ECM, 2013) * Dan Tepfer, ''Eleven Cages'' (Sunnyside, 2017) *

Henry Threadgill Henry Threadgill (born February 15, 1944) is an American composer, saxophonist and flautist. He came to prominence in the 1970s leading ensembles rooted in jazz but with unusual instrumentation and often incorporating other genres of music. He h ...

, ''Dirt... and More Dirt'' (Pi, 2018) *

David Virelles David Virelles (born 1983) is a Cuban jazz pianist and composer. Early life Virelles was born in Cuba in 1983Jurek, Tho"Artist Biography" AllMusic. Retrieved 21 February 2015. and grew up in Santiago. His father is José Aquiles, a singer-songwr ...

, ''Mboko'' (ECM, 2014) * David Virelles, ''Gnosis'' (ECM, 2017) *

Florian Weber Florian Weber (born 11 November 1977) is a German pianist and composer of modern jazz. Early life and education Weber was born on 11 November 1977 in Detmold. His family was musical: "his father was a music professor and his mother an opera singe ...

, ''Biosphere'' (Enja, 2012)

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Biography

Discography

As sideman

See also

References

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