Chad Morris
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Young Prodigy Explores Jazz
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When you're 19 years old and you've already been playing the guitar and piano for almost 14 years - well, let's just say you have a leg up on your peers. A strong family musical influence got California musician Chad Morris on the right track from an early age, and now it appears it is paying dividends. He submitted a three song instrumental CD-R demo, done up in the George Benson jazz style, and the material really shows his maturity on a number of instruments in addition to guitar - keyboards, saxophone and bass. Morris also dabbles in electronic music (under the name Green Glaze - someone here had that; it can be cured with penicillin), but with this much ability in jazz, it would be a great idea to focus, and continue to put out awesome sounding tracks per his demo. Good stuff.
Chad was born in 1986 in Los Angeles; at the age of 4 he started playing a little toy piano, at the age of 5, his father gave him a small scale acoustic nylon stringed guitar. His father exposed him to Coltrane's hard bop, piano players like Joe Sample and Ramsey Lewis, avid straight ahead jazz, and exceptional guitar players like Wes Montgomery, George Benson, Earl Clue, Jonathan Butler and others. Little Chad knew all of the greatest jazz musicians as well as their songs at the age of 8. In high school he rekindled his desire to play guitar passionately. He began studying on his own; using the knowledge he had of the piano to help propel him through his guitar study. Over a 3-year period were 6-hour days of nonstop playing and study. Chad later played John Coltrane solos on the guitar, which was a challenge that would keep him motivated to progress. He recently graduated from the recording arm of the Musician's Institute, and used the knowledge to record his demo CD-R.
Morris is currently unsigned and working fervently to make his name known. He can now play the bass, guitar, piano, soprano sax, and violin. Morris is only 19 years old, so his progression onward will be something to marvel.
MP3 Songs
Neojazz
Seven
Contact Information
Chad Morris
3500 W. 75th Place
Inglewood, CA 90305
United States
E-mail:
Chad Morris
Web site:
one.xthost.info/chadmorris
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Tim Pratt
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Specializing In Instrumental
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Indiana guitarist Tim Pratt submitted a two-song demo CD-R, featuring two hard rock style numbers. "Anointed Combustion" is the high-energy number of the two, rocking with heart, soul and attitude galore. Featuring a drum machine or beat box for backing and the throbbing bass guitar of Stan Hoover, the track features a super-extended solo section that in reminiscent of the title track off "Surfing With The Alien". Now for the first track, saddled with the super-extended title of "An Instrument Of Your Peace (Phoenix Rising)", Pratt tells Hoover to sit this one out, and pulls out the synths and keyboards to provide a calliope-like backup - along with a rhythmic crunch. So depending on how you feel about that combination will have a direct bearing on your opinion of the track.
Starting on the trombone at age 10, Tim soon abandoned it for a classical guitar that he got for Christmas. By the age of 17, loud amplification took control, and he later played in numerous bands in the Northern Indiana area, including Head Band, Razor Sharp, Street Lethal, Stranger and Spectre. Then he played in blues-rock bands such as The Image and Holiday Blonde. Tim then turned his attention towards music that glorified the Lord, with bands such as Skyfish and Grail, the latter being a Christian power trio that released two independent CDs and opened shows for Reliant K and Jeremy Camp. He was also interested in instrumental music at that time, recording a CD entitled "Emporium". Tim sites musical influences such as Jimi Hendrix, Ritchie Blackmore, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Chris Impelliteri and Yngwie Malmsteen.
Pratt hopes one day to form a group that specializes in instrumental music. Until that time, he continues to work nights in his own project studio, BigEye.
MP3 Songs
Anointed Combustion
An Instrument Of Your Peace (Phoenix Rising)
Contact Information
Tim Pratt
57126 County Road 31
Goshen, IN 46528
United States
E-mail:
Tim Pratt
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