Morris Nanton

I was fortunate enough to be befriended by Mr Harry Brown. I was working the pool hall above the bowling lanes above the Cove. Left one nite and harry saw me and said come here. I´m going to teach you about whiskey and music. Took me in the Cove and put me at the very end of the bar and ordered me a snifter of good burbon n said you just stay there n listen. I did that every Friday n Saturday evenings thru last two years of high school. Then I went to the war. When I got home is was good to...

I was with Morris in Company B. 80th Heavy Tank Battalion at Camp Chaffee Arkansas in 1953. Heard him at the piano at the. Knew he would go on to greater things. Glad to see he didn't stay with that Maurice Nat thing.

It’s many years since we lost this awesome man and musician. My buddy Eddie Kays introduced me to The Morris Nanton trio at the Cove. The music was bluesy and down home jazz. As I write this I am listening to a recording of the trio on the music service, Qobuz. The Morris Nanton trio lives on in perpetuity via the internet and streaming. Thank you for the wonderful evenings and especially “Somewhere over the Rainbow”

We miss you and your music.

Morris. Wherever you are, there's music and love. Erwin

was on my way to a buddy rich concert at wolman rink in n.y.c. in the early '70's stopped at the cove in roselle, chestnut st. morris let me sit in on the drums to do an instrumental of mack the knife. i was 15, now i'm 64. remeber it like it was yesterday.

Morris is still with me through his great recordings. From 1970 at the Cove, I was a "regular". Up through his last note at Shanghai, he was always in top form, truly a jazz genius with a distinctive style all his own. I interviewed him on radio in the 70s and viewed him as a friend I'll never forget. He was the greatest!

Posted before, but it seems appropriate again. I go back even further than The Cove - back to Lou Horner's 'Ad Lib,' when Oliver Jackson was Morris' drummer.

Seems so unfair that he's gone - but not forgotten, as long as there are some of us who are still kickin'.

We spent many happy hours with Morris at the Cove in Roselle, NJ.
A great talent has been lost.