Brooklyn-based bassist, composer, singer, and music director Chris Morrissey is known for bridging acoustic chamber jazz, improvised music, and expansive songwriting. As a bandleader, he has released seven acclaimed albums across Sunnyside, Edition Records, and GroundUP Music—including The Morning World (2009), North Hero (2013), Impact Winter Formal (2021), Grey Like The Color (2024), and Live in Minnesota (2024)—and leads the instrumental quintet Sans Vox.
Across five continents, Morrissey has recorded and toured extensively as a first-call bassist with Mark Guiliana's Jazz Quartet and Beat Music, the Dave King Trucking Company, Norah Jones, the Jim Campilongo Trio, Nate Smith, Gretchen Parlato, Sara Bareilles, Chris Thile's Live From Here house band, Margaret Glaspy, Trixie Whitley, Boy George, and Andrew Bird. A recipient of commissions from The Jazz Gallery and The Jazz Coalition, he serves on the adjunct faculty at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music.
