The Gregory Morris Group

The Gregory Morris Group (Cincinnati, Ohio) combines fundamental elements of a traveling storyteller, jazz influenced dynamic percussion, bittersweet folk roots and east coast horn creating a bastion of invention that shanghais the senses into a hyper real environment rich with [un]savory characters. One part jazz, one part folk, one part punk, one part rock, but it's really all about the songs. Bank robberies, pregnant pirates, time travelers, voodoo spells, allegory and plain old sex drugs and rock n roll conspire to reveal a world of simple feelings in exotic places. A broken heart by any other name...A genuine enjoyment of the art and the opportunity to play together keeps the music and the performer fresh and sincere and the songs, like any good story, can never really be told the same way twice. GMG is currently working on their 2nd full length album, RoofTop, BoomBox, UFO, to be released late 2007. ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ "Today i have decided that i am a dragon in dogs clothing or a sheep in fish scales or a plausible but unremarkable human in thrift store cotton...who i have been and who i am yet to become are as unimportant are they are unknowable. suffice it to say that someday i will be dust just as you and you and you will be too - unless the soul remains, memory intact as it switches cars in the rail yard of the abyss. this is worth knowing although, as i told that seductive soothsayer one time long ago, i do not care to know the hour and manner of my death - sometimes the real gift is in the suprise. as for the hour and manner of my life - the hours are many and the manners are few. i am as lucky as any mongrel runt could ever hope to be having seen the marble of rome, the potshards of hopi land, the brothels of new orleans and the caravans of morocco. i make music to torment and to liberate, to reveal and obscure - in short it is an affliction and so shall i suffer." - Gregory Morris ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ "It's not the upside down backwards smooth as jazz frenetic as Django guitar playing of leader Gregory Morris or the tight and versatile rhythm section of Michael and Katherine, but the cool, progressive blues seated groove they lay down." - Jeff Roberson