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Biography
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Thomas Morgan (born August 14, 1981 in Hayward, California) is
a jazz bassist in New York. After playing cello for seven years,
he turned to the double bass at the age of fourteen, taking lessons
from Todd Sickafoose
for a brief time and Cindy Browne Rosefield for the rest
of his high school years. In 1999 he moved to New York to study
with Harvie S
and Garry Dial at the Manhattan School of Music,
also taking extracurricular lessons
with Ray Brown
and Peter Herbert.
He now performs regularly in New York, Europe, and Canada, and is
a member of over twenty bands, including groups led
by Dave Binney,
Steve Coleman,
Pete Robbins,
Todd Neufeld,
Dan Weiss,
Scott DuBois,
Samuel Blaser,
Paul Motian,
Maria Neckam,
John Abercrombie,
Tyshawn Sorey,
Masabumi Kikuchi,
Ben Gerstein,
Jen Shyu,
and Yoon Sun Choi,
with whom he plays guitar.
He has played on some twenty CDs released (or soon to be)
by ECM,
Winter & Winter,
Posi-Tone,
Between the Lines,
Sunnyside Records,
Fresh Sound New Talent,
Firehouse 12 Records,
Sony Music Japan,
Hat Hut Records,
Soul Note,
Criss Cross Jazz,
and Playscape Recordings,
among others.
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