Dick Morrissey & Jim Mullen

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Morrissey Mullen was a British jazz-funk/fusion group of the seventies and eighties. Dick Morrissey, ex-IF, (tenor and soprano saxes and flute) and Jim Mullen, ex-Brian Auger's Oblivion Express, (guitar) joined forces in 1975 and played together for some 16 years, during which time they developed their hallmark calls and responses between guitar and sax. The band came into being in New York City where Dick Morrissey and Jim Mullen were recording and touring with their mutual friends in the Average White Band and Herbie Mann. Coinciding with the recording and release of the first of seven Morrissey Mullen albums (plus two EPs), Up (Atlantic, 1977), which featured the guys from AWB as a rhythm section, plus Luther Vandross and Cissy Houston on vocals, together with some of the New York scene’s top session musicians (see Discography below), the Morrissey Mullen band spent eight months in New York, including a celebrated six-week residency at Mikell’s, On their return to the U K they concentrated on the small-club/pub circuit, with sell-out gigs. In 1979, EMI commissioned them to enter the Abbey Road recording studios to make EMI's first-ever digital recording of a non-classical music piece. Their defining album Cape Wrath was a British Fusion classic with Dick Morrissey - tenor sax, Jim Mullen – guitar, Richard Bailey – drums, Kuma Harada – bass, Max Middleton – keyboards, Robert Ahwai – guitar, Tony Carr – percussion Produced by Max Middleton it one of a pair ,

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