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Morris, Lawrence Butch

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Personal name headingMorris, Lawrence Butch
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Variant(s)Morris, Butch
Morris, Lawrence D.
Birth date19470210
Death date20130129
Place of birthLong Beach, Calif.
Place of deathBrooklyn, New York, N.Y.
Field of activityJazz
Profession or occupationCornetist Composer Conductor
Found inBang, B. Outline no. 12 [SR] 1983: label (Lawrence Butch Morris)
His Dust to dust [SR] p1991: label (Butch Morris) container (Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris)
New Grove dict. of jazz, 2nd ed. (Morris, Butch (Lawrence (Douglas)); b. Feb. 10, 1947, Long Beach, CA; cornetist, composer, and conductor, brother of Wilber Morris)
All music guide WWW site, Sept. 23, 2002 (Lawrence Butch Morris; aka Lawrence Morris)
New York times WWW site, Jan. 30, 2013 (in obituary published Jan. 29: Butch Morris; b. Lawrence Douglas Morris, Feb. 10, 1947, Long Beach, Calif.; d. Tuesday [Jan. 29, 2013], Brooklyn, aged 65; created a distinctive form of large-ensemble music built on collective improvisation that he single-handedly directed and shaped)
Not found inFeather, L.G. Bio. enc. of jazz, 1999; Int. ww in pop. mus., 4th ed.