Joe Morris is a guitarist, composer, and educator originally from New Haven, Connecticut. He is the author of Perpetual Frontier: The Properties of Free Music (Riti Publishing 2012). He released his first record "Wraparound" (Riti) in 1983 and has been composing over 200 original pieces of music. Since 2000, he is a faculty staff in the Jazz and Contemporary Improvisation Department at New England Conservatory.
The days when art was centralized in Europe are long gone if they ever truly existed in any way other than imposed dominance supported by exclusive institutions.