Photograph © Claudio Casan
I missed this sad news at the end of last month, but the remarkable composer, cornetist, and conductor (of large improvising ensembles)
Lawrence "Butch" Morris has died. You can find an obituary
here at
The Guardian, another
here at
The New York Times, and remembrances
here and
here at NPR and
The New Yorker respectively.
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Update (27 February 2012): Over the past few days I have had the pleasure of watching
Black February a film documenting the month, in 2005, during which Morris coordinated "44 performances in 28 days with 85 musicians pulled from all across New York’s musical community." In the film Morris comes across as brilliant, decent, demanding and exceptionally grounded. And I now have come across
this touching remembrance of Morris by
Wayne Horwitz who confirms that assessment.
Labels: imagination, jazz, Music, Obituaries
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