NWR: Joe Morris

A jazz evening at New Wave Ramen in Manchester, featuring Joe Morris, an American trumpeter and bandleader whose career in jazz and rhythm and blues dates from 1942.

Joe Morris is an American trumpeter and bandleader working in jazz and rhythm and blues. Born in Montgomery in 1922, Joe Morris has been active since 1942 and is associated with Atlantic Records, the New York label founded in 1947.

The music sits in two traditions, jazz and rhythm and blues, which the bandleader has worked across since the early 1940s. This concert is a jazz evening, so the trumpet and the band's playing form its centre.

New Wave Ramen hosts concerts and shows in Manchester, and this jazz performance is one of its music evenings. It suits listeners interested in trumpet-led jazz and rhythm and blues rooted in the 1940s.