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The dazzling Barbara Morrison has been featured on over 20 recordings in almost every genre from traditional jazz and blues to Gospel and pop. Her melodic voice, with its two-and-a-half-octave range, are known worldwide, as are her rich, unique, soulful and highly spirited interpretations of both, familiar jazz and blues classics, and original contemporary tunes. Most striking is Ms. Morrison’s ability to belt out down-home, soul-stirring blues. Breathtaking are her impassioned renditions of old and favorite torch songs.
Born and raised in and around Ypsilanti, Michigan, Barbara Morrison recorded her first appearance for radio in Detroit at the age of 10. Well known in the Los Angeles area for her duo and trio dates, Ms. Morrison also tours extensively, blazing a trail as a jazz and blues legend in her own right across the Continental United States, Western Europe the Far East and “Down Under, ‘ wowing audiences with her own band, and opening for jazz and blues greats including Ray Charles. Additional, Ms. Morrison guest stars with the Count Basie Orchestra , the Clayton-Hamilton Orchestra and Doc Severinsen’s Big Band.
In additional to her gigs with other jazz and blues groups and legends, Barbara Morrison also performs at the more renown blues and jazz Festivals around the world. Her many outstanding appearances, including those at Montreaux, Nice, Pori, Carnegie Hall, North Sea, Monterey, Long Beach, as well as her Salute to Dizzy Gillespie and her Tribute to Benny Golson, are fondly remember by Morrison fans who return again and again to share her rare, unique and exceptional vocal gifts.
Biography. Retrieved June 15, 2004 from http://www.barbaramorrison.com/
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