Ben Morris

This work is inspired by American painter George Ault’s series of 1940’s paintings of his vacation farm in upstate New York. Ault was interested in abstraction and light, imbuing his landscapes with a...

Scree Scramble was commissioned by the Robert Black Foundation in tandem with New Music on the Point and bassist James Sullivan. "Scree" refers to loose eroded rocks on the side of a mountain, and "sc...

Beta Drift refers to the northwesterly direction of hurricanes; each hurricane has a predicted path, but can deviate to the east or west of that predicted direction. Beta Drift, a six-year collaborati...

Ymir's Bones is inspired by the stomp and swagger of this world-building giant. It’s a great choice for an advanced band that wants a piece with some bite. In Norse mythology, Ymir is the primordial g...

Ymir's Bones is inspired by the stomp and swagger of this world-building giant. It’s a great choice for an advanced band that wants a piece with some bite. In Norse mythology, Ymir is the primordial g...

Sand Trap takes influence from the spontaneous, jagged unison lines played by bebop horn section pairings— Cannonball Adderley and Miles Davis or Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker, for example—as wel...

Dust Storm is an energetic up-tempo swing piece for big band, composed for the 2025 BMI Jazz Composers Workshop under the direction of Alan Ferber and Andy Farber. It has a strong Western-inflected fl...

Dust Storm is an energetic up-tempo swing piece for big band, composed for the 2025 BMI Jazz Composers Workshop under the direction of Alan Ferber and Andy Farber. It has a strong Western-inflected fl...