Sam Morrison

New York, 1952) is an American jazz saxophonist, flutist, and composer, who replaced Sonny Fortune in Miles Davis's band in 1975.

A second album, Natural Layers (Chiaroscuro Records), followed the next year, featuring Narada Michael Walden.

Morrison, who specializes in the soprano saxophone and alto flute (also playing tenor saxophone and bass flute), has also played with Gil Evans, Woody Shaw, Andrew Cheshire, and Japanese jazz musicians Masabumi Kikuchi, Terumasa Hino and Ryo Kawasaki.

[3] He graduated from Columbia University, where he played in a band with Armen Donelian and Marc Copland.

[4] Morrison lives in Livingston Manor, Sullivan County, New York.