Thomas Morris (musician)

Thomas Morris ( * August 30, 1897, † 1945 ) was an American jazz cornetist, and bandleader.

Thomas Morris was a well known figure in the early New York jazz scene of the 1920s. He led a formation named Thomas Morris and his Seven Hot Babies (or his Past Jazz Masters 1923), with whom he played mid-20s in Harlem and was involved in around 150 shots. Morris took on a number of records with Fats Waller, Sidney Bechet, Charlie Johnson's Paradise Orchestra and Clarence Williams; He also accompanied blues singers like Margaret Johnson, sippie Wallace, Sara Martin, and Eva Taylor. He had a cameo appearance in 1929 the Bessie Smith film " St. Louis Blues". In the early 1930s he left the music business, worked as a porter at New York's Grand Central Station and was then a member of the movement of Father Divine's Universal Peace Mission, an African-American fundamentalist Christian sect. Morris changed his name to Brother Pierre. Thomas Morris was the uncle of jazz pianist Marlowe Morris, who has worked with Sid Catlett, Lionel Hampton, Earl Hines and Ben Webster.

The critic Scott Yanow called Thomas Morris as a primitive, albeit effective soloists.

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• When a ' Gator Holler ... ( Frog, 1926) with Rex Stewart, Jabbo Smith, Charlie Irvis, Wellman Braud, Happy Cauldwell, and Margaret Johnson, Helen Baxter (voc )