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Butch Morris


Butch Morris (cornet, violin), Frank Lowe (tenor) | Century City Playhouse, Los Angeles, July 2, 1976 |Photo by Mark Weber

THE ELITE SYNCOPATIONS JAZZ RADIO SHOW

February 16, 2o12

83 minutes of jazz @ Noon every Thursday
Host MARK WEBER

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Today we feature the music of Butch Morris. It was during the 1970s that Butch first started thinking about how to utilize and contour the then-current practice of long freewheeling solos in the Out Jazz realm. His ideas coalesced into what has become known as Conduction, a system of hand signals that the conductor uses like a paint brush to shape a spontaneous music performance into a manifestation greater than all the parts.

And we’ll have an inside look into Maestro Morris’s ways and means via J.A. Deane who will be in-studio with us to explain the concepts of conduction — Dino has worked with Butch since the mid-1980s through possibly fifty-plus performances inside China, Turkey, USA, France, Spain, NYC, Portugal, Italy, Germany, and Albuquerque.

Butch Morris (cornet, violin), Frank Lowe (tenor) |Century City Playhouse, Los Angeles, July 2, 1976 | Photo by Mark Weber

Butch Morris (cornet, violin), Frank Lowe (tenor) | Century City Playhouse, Los Angeles, July 2, 1976 | Photo by Mark Weber

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