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Contact Details

Address: 322 Mason Avenue
 Peterborough
 Ontario
 K9H 4W5
 Canada

Phone: 705.749.1239 (daytime)

Michael Morse

Living in Peterborough, Canada

Massachusetts-born bassist, composer, arranger, and teacher Michael Morse studied with Gary Peacock, Warren Grim and Rudolf Watzel. Among the jazz greats with whom he has performed and recorded are Brian Barley, Bob Mover, Lee Konitz, Roswell Rudd, Charles Ellison, Claude Ranger, John Vidacovich, Jane Fair, Terry King, Steve Hall, and Kirk MacDonald. He is a devout practitioner of the dark art of music sociology, and teaches at Trent University, as well as writing books and articles in the field. He has two unusually high-quality children, a delightful former wife, an utterly delightful second wife, and lives in Peterborough, Ontario. Dr. Morse is an equal opportunity employee.

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  • Score Groups
    • Tunes
      • A Smile for Andrew
      • Accolade
      • Bass Line Bossa
      • Crimes Against Humility
      • Clean Sweep
      • The Doublecross Samba
      • Ecstatic Regret [4-tet version]
      • For Jobim
      • Glen's Reggae Rally
      • The Girl with the Flaxen Horse
      • I Sold The Lord's Name in Wayne
      • Ignoble Simplicity
      • Incomplete Stranger
      • Incomplete Stranger - lead sheet
      • Ignoble Simplicity - lead sheet
      • Monk in Japan
      • nova bossa nova
      • Jazz for Sarah G
      • The Star-Kissed Lovers
      • New Vamp for Andy
      • Peshawar Curtains
      • Old shoes in New Bottles - quintet version
      • Tense Past Narrative
      • Transfigured Knight
      • Undiminished Hope
    • Dignity of Labour Ensemble
      • Abide with Me by trad.
      • Accolade
      • Beat Your Swords into Timeshares
      • Blue 8
      • Estella's Song
      • Freedmania
      • The Ill-Advised Tango
      • Insignificant Other
      • Jackie-ing
      • Mamba Samba
      • Misterioso
      • pour serge
      • Rock Island Line by trad.
      • Rouge - Mere Jazz
      • Royal Garden Blues
      • Sing me Softly of the Blues
      • Story of a Reel Man
      • Stück
      • Take Ten
      • Thematic Samba
      • Tropical Anaesthetic
      • Weasel Music
      • Your Lady
    • Four Piano Trilogies
      • African Language Wordplay Trilogy I - Them Dogon Africans
      • African Language Wordplay Trilogy II - A Hausa's Not a Home
      • African Language Wordplay Trilogy III - A Xhosa Shave
      • Ballad Trilogy I - Afterschlock
      • Ballad Trilogy II - Forlorn at the Birth of July
      • Ballad Trilogy III - Newest Moderate Ballad
      • Pianist Trilogy I - Undiminished Hope
      • Pianist Trilogy III - Ecstatic Regret
      • Toronto Pianist Trilogy I - The Not-so-Great Satan (for Brian Dickinson)
      • Toronto Pianist Trilogy III - The Mighty Gill Show (for Tania Gill)
    • Avataar Collective
      • All Alone
      • The Steel Toad Blues
    • The PoetiKs
    • Improvising Ensemble
      • Forken Waltz
      • Insist That Sleeping Dogs Tell the Truth
      • On What There Is
    • Piano Music
      • Second Sonatina - Dance Suite
      • Skateboard Sonatina
      • le tombeau de Schoenberg
      • sonate rouge
    • Guitar quartet
      • Accolade
      • Ecstatic Regret
      • Pour Serge
    • miniatures & etudes
      • miniature recitative
      • Piano Dance
      • Arianna's Vamp
      • Jazz Canon
      • To Part..
    • Double Bass Ensemble
      • Hambatmor - Trio for Double Basses
      • I Don't See any Lions, Do You, Hank?
      • Thunderment
    • Poetry of Raymond Lukens
      • Kriegslied
      • Prudence
    • Satires & Polemics
      • All Praise to Him
      • America's Unspeakable Tragedy by Unknown
      • A Blasphemy of/on Subjectivity
      • Come, Sweet Jesus by trad.
      • A Fond Remembrance
      • Für Elvise
      • "Gospel" Menuet, by J. Haydn, arr. MW Morse
      • So Long, Anne Boleyn
      • Testicles are a Badde Thynge
    • Chamber & Orchestral
      • Short Essay Collection I - Preface
      • Short Essay Collection III - Barcarolle
      • Polly Filler
    • Pop Music, Pretty Much
      • Crystal
      • Francophilian Explosion
      • God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen by trad.
      • God rest Ye Merry Gentlemen bis by trad.
      • If
      • Junk Food for Thought
      • Subtonic Juncture
    • Work in Progress
      • nouveau reggae
      • The Lark Condescending
      • Speechless
      • Blue Notin'
      • Blues for Sam Jones
      • For Brian Barley
      • Naturals - sketches
      • Lament for Margaret L.
      • For Strayhorn
      • The Fish Cleaning Blues
      • Insecurity Check
      • Old Boot, No Name
      • Naturals
      • Lydia's Waltz
      • Ravelesque
      • Song for McCoy
      • Stir-Fry Picnic: Wok in the Park
      • Pitfall Terriers
      • Schopenhauer
      • Symphoresis
    • Bosniana
    • Don't Believe the Hyphen
    • Escaping the Play with Sarah
    • Retrogradus ad Parnassum