MURRAY JAMES MORRISON
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Bio
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Dr. Murray James Morrison is a saxophonist, composer, and music educator. Originally from Canada, he has worked as an itinerant arranger, bandleader, clinician, composer, guest lecturer, and performing artist in cities around the world. Murray James is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Arts at NYU Shanghai, where he teaches jazz and popular music. Previously, he was Head of Saxophone at the Popular Music Academy of the Sichuan Conservatory of Music, where he taught in Mandarin. He was also Head Composer for Rye Studios, a Chinese educational app developer. Murray James holds a Ph.D. in Music Performance from the Jazz Studies program of New York University. His teachers include a who’s who of contemporary jazz legends: Joe Lovano, Chris Potter, Stefon Harris, Kenny Werner, Jean-Michel Pilc, Ralph Bowen, and acclaimed jazz historian Dr. Lewis Porter. Murray James is presently recording music for Soul Pirate, a funk/fusion follow-up to his debut jazz album, Happy Every Day. Murray James lives in Shanghai, China with his wife Liu and daughter Melody.
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curriculum vitae - PDF, updated May 2019
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Music
happy every day (studio album)
“Si Si”
“Security”
“Two”
jahwahzoo
rye studios
“Jasmine”
“My Home”
“My Child”
Background music for I Am a Tyrannosaurus
Rye World demo trailer - video
music with video
nyu jazz studies
“Micah”
other music
“Stricken, Smitten, and Afflicted”
more music with video
“All the Things You Are / Place de la Concorde”
“O Canada”
“Crazeology” (external link)
“My Romance” (external link)
“Get Out of Here” (external link)
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Writing
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“Practitioner and Prophet: An Analysis of Sonny Stitt’s Music and Relationship to Charlie Parker” - Ph.D. Dissertation, 552 pages + xix, PDF
“Jazz Education in China: Its Recent Development and Future”
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“Music Performance and Failure”
“Oxford”
“4′33″”
“Blame”
“Being Experimental and Transgressive”
“Mandarin and Music with Murray James”
“The Printed Page and the Hyper-link”
“The Internet of Things and the Divine”
“Learning a New Language Is a Sisyphean Undertaking”
“A Motley Many Tentacled Beast”
“At Noon”
“machine”
“The Animals of Sophisticated Secular Societies”
“Modernity in Pharaoh’s Court”
“20th-Century Music and Its Meanings”
“Plot Synopsis of the Pilot Episode of Millennial, a Rejected 2018 Comedy Sitcom”
“Freedom”
“Scatter”
“SpaceX”
“Mozart”
“Replacements for Ancient Human Desires”
“They See You When You’re Sleeping”
“The Downsides of Letter Writing”
“G Clef Kingdom, Year 4/4, Common Era”
“Turf War”
“On Contemporary Christian Worship Music”
“Criticizing Global Capitalism on an iPhone”
“Brutes, Monsters, and Devils”
“Equal-Tempered Major Thirds Are Discomfiting ”
“Dear Jazz Theory Textbook Writers”
“Over Four Hours of Music per Day”
“Kings, Queens, Fatha’s, Lords and Ladies”
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Pictures
promotional photos
murrayjames &c
...with the Dragonovsky Funk Quartet
melody’s artwork
Prettiest Garden (Living Things)
Melody and Mommy and Daddy on a Nice Day
Girl Wearing Fish Hat and a Ghost Party
Girl with Dog and Cat, Woof Woof Meow Meow
Unicorn Walking in the Field on a Sunny Day
Elephant Stuck in the Middle of the Ocean
Picture of Melody Drawing a Picture
After the Flood There Was a Rainbow
Kitties Chasing Mice and Mice Chasing Kitties in a Video Game
Two Unicorns and a Princess and God
Unicorn Flying Upside Down at Sunset
Princess Unicorn and Her Prince
Two Unicorns and a Birthday Cake with Five Candles on It
Savannah Cats Go Out for a Walk
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Contact
email murrayjames@nyu.edu
wechat murrayjames
