Morris Goldberg

Morris Goldberg ( b. 1936 in Cape Town) is a South African jazz musician (saxophone, flute, penny whistle ), who lives in New York City since the 1960s.

Life and work

Goldberg first learned clarinet. Early influences on him were Kippie Moeketsi, Christopher Columbus Ngcukana and Harold Jaftha. In the late 1950s he met Hugh Masekela know. He has performed in the jazz clubs in the townships Observatory and District Six with Chris McGregor, Gerry Bosman and Abdullah Ibrahim. In 1960 he left South Africa and went to England, then to move to the United States. He attended the Manhattan School of Music and worked regularly with Harry Belafonte and the South African singer Miriam Makeba and Letta Mbulu interior. In the 1970s, he focused more on teaching activities. During a visit to South Africa in 1974, he went with Abdullah Ibrahim into the studio to record the legendary Cape Jazz title "Man Mountain Is Where It 's Happening ." In the 1980s he worked regularly with Harry Belafonte and Hugh Masekela, but also worked as a studio musician for Paul Simon and is roughly at the Graceland album on Penny Whistle ( " You Can Call Me Al " ) and the soprano saxophone ( "Crazy Love " ) to hear. Between 1996 and 2002 he belonged to the band of the Rosie O'Donnell Show and accompanied on television musicians such as Tony Bennett, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Barry Manilow and Phil Collins.

In New York, he leads the band Ojoyo, with which he performs South African jazz. He has also recorded with Judy Collins, Pops Mohamed, Bakithi Kumalo, Hans Theessink, Philip Tabane, Sivuca, Christine Lavin, Tony Bird, Willie Colon, and Joan Baez.

Disco Graphical Notes

• Abdullah Ibrahim 's Mountain (1974 )
• Jazz in transit. Live in Cape Town ( with Tony Schilder, Merton Barrow, Gary Kriel, Cecil Rica, 1983)
• Forward Motion (2003)