Thomas Morgan
Jazz / Acoustic / Experimental
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NEW YORK, New York
United States
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| Member Since | 6/2/2006 | | Influences | Cocteau Twins,
Wu-Tang Clan,
Elizete Cardoso,
Mikhail Pletnev,
Neil Young,
Mildred Bailey,
Luciano Berio,
Jerome Kern,
Masabumi Kikuchi,
Smokey Robinson,
Garoto,
Yasujiro Ozu,
Mabel Mercer,
Lao-tzu,
Israel Crosby,
David Lynch,
George Ohsawa,
Hermann Hesse,
Pablo Casals,
Paul Motian,
Joseph Spence,
Aphex Twin,
Elliott Smith,
Eric B. & Rakim,
Beck,
Jon Brion,
Ingmar Bergman,
Quentin Tarantino,
Robert De Niro,
Sergio Leone,
Marlon Brando,
James Jamerson,
Frank Sinatra,
Donald Fagen,
Charles Ives,
João Gilberto,
Joni Mitchell,
Todd Neufeld,
Dave Binney,
Andrei Tarkovsky,
Ben Gerstein,
Tyshawn Sorey,
Squarepusher,
Alban Berg,
Rainer Maria Rilke,
Steve Swallow,
Olivier Messiaen,
Bill Frisell,
Tony Scherr,
Nikhil Banerjee,
Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof,
Hans Christian Andersen,
William Shakespeare,
Laurence Olivier,
Dion Driver,
Alec Wilder,
Billie Holiday,
Lester Young,
Lee Konitz,
Joey Baron,
Dan Weiss,
Ennio Morricone,
Tamami Aburakawa,
Johannes Brahms,
Jacob Sacks,
Dahveed Behroozi,
Loren Stillman,
Garry Dial,
Harvie S,
Glenn Gould,
Johann Sebastian Bach,
Frédéric François Chopin,
Rina Hamasaki,
Hayao Miyazaki,
John Coltrane,
Keith Jarrett,
Noel Melanio,
Kenny Shanker,
Ella Fitzgerald,
Claude Debussy,
Ahmad Jamal,
Wes Montgomery,
Thelonious Monk,
Charlie Parker,
Richard Rodgers,
Frank Sumares,
Cindy Browne Rosefield,
Richard Stallman,
Milt Hinton,
Charlie Haden,
Ray Brown,
Todd Sickafoose,
Nirvana,
The Cure,
Stanley Kubrick,
The Pixies,
Eric Clapton,
Claudia Slayman,
The Beatles,
The Beach Boys,
Jim Henson,
Fred Rogers,
Dr. Seuss;
my sister, Elizabeth Van Transehe;
and my parents, Christopher and Carol Morgan
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| About Thomas Morgan |
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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 Steve Coleman,
Paul Motian,
Dave Binney,
Pete Robbins,
Dan Weiss,
Masabumi Kikuchi,
Tyshawn Sorey,
Ben Gerstein,
Samuel Blaser,
Scott DuBois,
Jen Shyu,
Maria Neckam,
and Yoon Sun Choi,
with whom he plays guitar.
He has played on some twenty CDs released (or soon to be)
by 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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