Wilber Morris
Wilber Morris (November 27, 1937 - August 8, 2002) was an American jazz double bass player and bandleader. He was the brother of the cornetist, composer, and conductor Butch Morris.[1]
Wilber Morris recorded widely, and performed with such musicians as Pharoah Sanders, Steve Habib, Sonny Simmons, Alan Silva, Joe McPhee, Horace Tapscott, Butch Morris, Arthur Blythe, Charles Gayle, William Parker, and Billy Bang, Charles Tyler, Dennis Charles, Roy Campbell, Avram Fefer, Alfred 23 Harth, Borah Bergman and Rashied Ali.
Discography[]
As leader[]
- 1981: Collective Improvisations (Bleu Regard)
- 1983: Wilber Force (DIW Records)
- 1995: Breathing Together ()
- 2001: Drum String Thing (CIMP)
As sideman[]
With Steve Habib
Live At Joe Joe's
With Billy Bang
- Rainbow Gladiator (Soul Note, 1981)
With Thomas Borgmann
- BMN Trio - Nasty & Sweet (Nobusiness, 2013)
- BMC Trio Organic (Lotus Sound, 1998)
- Stalker Songs (CIMP, 1997)
- The Last Concert: Dankeschön (Silkheart, 1998)
- Boom Swing - BMC Trio (Konnex, 1998)
- BMN Trio - You See What We're Sayin' (CIMP, 1998)
With Rob Brown
- Visage (Marge, 2000)
With Avram Fefer and Bobby Few
- Few and Far Between (Boxholder, 2001)
With Avram Fefer and Steve Swell
- Lucille's Gemini Dream (CIMP, 2002)
With Charles Gayle
- Daily Bread (Black Saint, 1995)
With Frank Lowe
- Exotic Heartbreak (Soul Note, 1981)
With David Murray
With Kevin Norton
- (Clean Feed, 2003)
With Steve Swell
- This Now! (Cadence Jazz, 2003)
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- 1937 births
- 2002 deaths
- American jazz double-bassists
- Male double-bassists
- Child jazz musicians
- DIW Records artists
- CIMP artists
- 20th-century American musicians
- 20th-century double-bassists
- 20th-century American male musicians
- American male jazz musicians
- Musicians from Los Angeles
- Deaths from cancer in New Jersey