Artist: James Morrison

James Morrison James Morrison was is an Australian jazz  musician. Although his main instrument is trumpet, he has also performed on trombone, tuba, euphonium,  flugelhorn,  saxophone, clarinet, double bass, guitar, and piano. He is a composer, writing jazz charts for ensembles of various sizes and proficiency levels. 

He composed and performed the opening fanfare at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.At the ARIA Music Awards of 2010 Morrison and a cappella group, The Idea of North, won Best Jazz Album, for their collaboration on Feels Like Spring. In 2012 Morrison was appointed as Artistic Director of the Queensland Music Festival for the 2013 and 2015 festivals. He was inducted into the Graeme Bell Hall of Fame 2013 at the Australian Jazz Bell Awards. 

In March 2015 Morrison opened the James Morrison Academy of Music in Mount Gambier, South Australia – a tertiary level, dedicated jazz school offering a degree in jazz performance. The Academy ceased operations in 2021, citing the COVID-19 pandemic as a major factor. The program is undergoing restructuring, with an aim to bring short courses to regional areas in the near future. 

In 1983 James and John Morrison formed the Morrison Brothers Big Bad Band, a 13-piece group. The band's debut album, A Night in Tunisia, was released in 1984 by ABC Records as part of the Don Burrows Collection. The title track is a jazz standard by Dizzy Gillespie; another track, "Burrows Bossa", was written by Morrison. 

Morrison has performed with Dizzy Gillespie (the first Australian to do so), Don Burrows, Ray Charles, and  B.B. King. He has also worked with George Benson,  Ray Brown, Cab Calloway, Jon Faddis,  Herbie Hancock, Whitney Houston, Quincy Jones,  Graeme Lyall, Wynton Marsalis, Mark Nightingale,  Red Rodney, Arturo Sandoval,  Woody Shaw, Frank Sinatra, and Phil Stack. 

Morrison has a long association with composer and pianist Lalo Schifrin (composer of the theme from  Mission: Impossible) and has recorded albums for Schifrin's "Jazz Meets the Symphony" series.