12 Facts About Richard Morrissey

Richard Edwin Morrissey was a British jazz musician and composer.

Richard Morrissey played the tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone and flute.

Dick Richard Morrissey emerged in the early 1960s in the wake of Tubby Hayes, Britain's pre-eminent sax player at the time.

Richard Morrissey spent most of 1962 in Calcutta, India as part of the Ashley Kozak Quartet, playing three two-hour sessions seven days a week, before returning to the UK and forming his quartet with Harry South – who had been in the quartet in Calcutta – on piano.

Dick Richard Morrissey performed regularly at the National Jazz Festival in the 1960s; his last appearance under his own name there was at the 6th festival held at Windsor, although he would return to the festival with If in 1972 for their only appearance.

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On returning to Great Britain, Richard Morrissey–Mullen formed a band which rapidly became Britain's most highly acclaimed jazz-fusion band of the day, initially including two top session musicians from New Zealand, Frank Gibson, Jr.

Richard Morrissey died on 8 November 2000, aged 60, after many years fighting various forms of cancer.

Richard Morrissey's last gig was a reunion with the Morrissey–Mullen band at the Astor theatre in Deal.

Richard Morrissey's funeral, held in Deal, was attended by many of his fellow musicians including Allan Ganley.

Richard Morrissey was a lightning improviser and the flood of his inventions flew through his fingers with ease, for he was a masterful player.

Stylistically, Richard Morrissey was so flexible that he was able to fit happily into many contexts, from straightforward hard-bop, through jazz-rock and jazz-funk to soul-inflected pop music.

Richard Morrissey possessed the remarkable knack of making everything he played sound not only exciting but happy.