Briand Morrison, Solo Jazz Guitarist

Briand has been playing guitar since he was seven years old, in sixth grade he was part of his first band playing piano, bass and guitar, and at sixteen he was hired by the West Bank School of Music as a rock guitar teacher! Then Briand found a new challenge, jazz improvisation. A feeling of composing on the fly satisfied within his own mind his father’s notion that composing was a higher art form than playing. To Briand, jazz was the most interesting because it was so much richer in every way: harmonically, rhythmically and melodically. This gave rise to more expression and color when playing and soloing. So much so that it continues to be tightly woven within his music interests and still shapes what he plays and listens to.