Live in Minnesota Chris Morrissey

• 1White Sand (Live in Minnesota)04:32
• 2Born A Lion (Live in Minnesota)05:05
• 3I Was Here (Live in Minnesota)05:15
• 4Northstar (Live in Minnesota)03:54
• 5Mirror And A Gold Chain (Live in Minnesota)04:46
• 6Hey Galaxy (Live in Minnesota)08:37
• 7Sincerely Dancing (Live in Minnesota)05:29
• 8Don't Look So Serious (Live in Minnesota)05:30
• 9Meadow Soprano (Live in Minnesota)04:18
• 10Company (Live in Minnesota)06:23
• Total Runtime53:49

Info for Live in Minnesota

Chris Morrissey’s “Live In Minnesota” is ten songs recorded at Berlin Music Club in Minneapolis on March 23rd, 2024 at the hometown record release shows for Grey Like The Color. The bands’ live show draws from Morrissey’s six releases across fifteen years - including the first single White Sand from 2018’s Laughing and Laughing and the featured track I Was Here from Cannon Falls Forever (2010). Entering their fourth year as a working band, Marco Bolfelli (guitar), Charlotte Greve (saxophone and voice) and Bill Campbell (drums) are the longest standing unit in Chris’s time as a bandleader, and his only group to tour internationally. Live In Minnesota is an inspired, joyful, rowdy and free set that we are proud to share with you.

Marco Bolfelli, guitar
Charlotte Greve, saxophone, voice
Chris Morrissey, lead vocals, bass, keyboards
Bill Campbell, drums
Guest:
Charlotte Greve, saxophones, vocals

Chris Morrissey
New York based composer and bassist Chris Morrissey is a musician with an uncanny ability to blend styles and genres effortlessly in his own unique way.

Chris Morrissey is a songwriter, a bassist, a singer, a music director, a leo, an uncle, a lover of most cats and some dogs, a New Yorker, a Minnesotan, a yoga practicer, a wino, a restaurant frequenter, and joke teller/appreciator. As a bassist, he’s logged hundreds of thousands of miles touring five continents with the Jim Campilongo Trio, Mark Guiliana Jazz Quartet, Beat Music, Dave King Trucking Company, Sara Bareilles, Chris Thile’s “Live From Here” house band, Margaret Glaspy, Boy George, Ben Kweller, Andrew Bird, Mason Jennings, Gretchen Parlato, Trixie Whitley, Gabriel Kahane, and Amy Helm.

As a music director, he assembled bands, arranged and rehearsed repertoire for tour and TV for Sara Bareilles (on her Album of the Year Grammy nominated “The Blessed Unrest” tours), Sharon Van Etten (Remind Me Tomorrow tours), Trixie Whitley (Porta Bohemica tours), and Elle King (Shake The Spirit tours).

As a composer and band leader, Mr. Morrissey has released four records to high praise: “Laughing and Laughing” (2018), “The Morning World” (2009, Sunnyside), “Cannon Falls Forever” (2011, self release) and “North Hero” (2013, Sunnyside). His 5th record is forthcoming on Edition Records in July 2021.

He has been featured in Bass Player Magazine, is a member of the adjunct faculty at The New School For Jazz and Contemporary Music and has received commissions from The Jazz Gallery and The Jazz Coalition. Chris lives between a park and a cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.

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