Chris Morrissey

Chris Morrissey is a Brooklyn-based bassist, singer, producer, arranger, bandleader, and songwriter who has glided between jazz, pop, country, reggae, and indie rock -- mostly as a live performance bassist, but also as a session musician, solo artist, and in roles such as music director for <a href="spotify:artist:2Sqr0DXoaYABbjBo9HaMkM">Sara Bareilles</a>' Little Black Dress tour in 2014. Raised in Minnesota by two musician parents, Morrissey grew up playing the trumpet but picked up the bass in his mid-teens. After relocating to New York in his twenties, he released his debut full-length as the Chris Morrissey Quartet. A contemporary indie jazz album, The Morning World was issued on the Sunnyside label in 2009. His indie rock project, Taurus, self-released Cannon Falls Forever in 2011 and North Hero, a jazz LP under his own name, arrived in 2013, again with a four-piece and on Sunnyside. He's toured the world playing bass with acts as diverse as <a href="spotify:artist:4uSftVc3FPWe6RJuMZNEe9">Andrew Bird</a>, Roseanne Cash, <a href="spotify:artist:0R7w4cJqP8ngw5DPDBDr9k">the Jim Campilongo Trio</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:3MZIxeB762kFLJ8ceou6uJ">Trixie Whitley</a>, and recorded with, among others, <a href="spotify:artist:2BTZIqw0ntH9MvilQ3ewNY">Cyndi Lauper</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:7bhMBjjQhgPX0q9S4Ajncn">Ben Kweller</a>, Lucius, and <a href="spotify:artist:2Sqr0DXoaYABbjBo9HaMkM">Sara Bareilles</a> on her 2013 release, The Blessed Unrest. Continuing to collaborate with <a href="spotify:artist:2Sqr0DXoaYABbjBo9HaMkM">Bareilles</a> and touring extensively with a variety of other indie and jazz artists, he arranged <a href="spotify:artist:6AmG7SNdlV9boPZ7dFVnLY">Charlie Chaplin</a>'s "Smile" for the "in memoriam" segment of the 2014 Emmy Awards broadcast. ~ Marcy Donelson, Rovi