top of page

LEGENDS OF...CONCERT SERIES

Meet The 2025 Artist

PJ Morton is a soul singer, songwriter, performer, and producer based in New Orleans. He is a 5x GRAMMY winner and 20x GRAMMY nominee who has earned numerous nominations for BET, Soul Train, and NAACP Image Awards, in addition to selling out countless shows at historic venues like the Apollo Theater, Kennedy Center, and others around the world. On top of running his record label (Morton Records) and serving as Maroon 5's full-time keyboardist for the past 12+ years, he has collaborated with Stevie Wonder, Erykah Badu, Jon Batiste, Nas, Lil Wayne, JoJo, Yebba, Jill Scott and many others.

 

In 2024, PJ Morton became the first Black composer to write an original song for a Disney attraction - Tiana's Bayou Adventure, at Disneyland and Disney World. He also released an album, Cape Town to Cairo, entirely written, recorded, and produced during a 30-day trip across Africa, and published a new book titled Saturday Night, Sunday Morning via Worthy Publishing, an imprint of Hachette Book Group; the memoir sees him recounting and reflecting upon a trailblazing path that continues to defy expectations and straddle the tensions of music and faith, race and culture, expression and identity.

PJ Morton: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
12:24

PJ Morton: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music's Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It's the same spirit — stripped-down sets, an intimate setting — just a different space. Bobby Carter | December 2, 2020 If we invite artists to return to the Tiny Desk, we ask that they do something completely different from their first show. For PJ Morton, the obvious shift would've been to come solo. After all, he defied the laws of space back in 2018 and managed to squeeze 14 bodies behind the Desk. This time around he's just as generous with the spotlight, but puts a new focus on gospel. Gathered in a big airy space in his hometown of New Orleans, PJ and his band performed three selections from the now Grammy-nominated The Gospel According To PJ, his very first gospel album. He grew up playing gospel music, but chose secular music as his professional path. The album brings him back full circle, a journey mapped out in conversations on the album with his father, Bishop Paul S. Morton. PJ only sings lead on one song but is clearly the maestro for this Tiny Desk (home) concert. They open with the reggae-infused "So In Love," featuring Darrel Walls and Zacardi Cortez and close with "Repay You," featuring J Moss. I think we could all use a little praise music as we round out 2020 and who better to offer it than the preacher's son, Paul Morton, Jr.? SET LIST "So In Love" (featuring Darrel 'MusiqCity' Walls & Zacardi Cortez) "All In His Plan" "Repay You" (featuring J Moss) MUSICIANS PJ Morton: vocals, piano Darrel 'MusiqCity' Walls: vocals Zacardi Cortez: vocals J Moss: vocals Ed Clark: drums Brian Cockerham: bass Shemaiah Turner: guitar Tiondria Norris: vocals Jarell Bankston: vocals Ashton Fortner Francis: vocals John Perkins: trumpet Tajh Derosier : saxophone Brad Walker : saxophone Stephen Lands: trumpet CREDITS Video: Vincent Powell, Paul pda Allen Audio: Reggie Nicholas Video Director & Editor: Dominic Scott Director of Photography, Camera Op: Harrison Atwood Video Producer: Delaney George TINY DESK TEAM Producer: Bobby Carter Video Producer: Morgan Noelle Smith Audio Mastering: Josh Rogosin Tiny Production Team: Bob Boilen, Kara Frame, Maia Stern Executive Producer: Lauren Onkey Senior VP, Programming: Anya Grundmann
Nu Deco Ensemble and PJ Morton - This Christmas
03:00

Nu Deco Ensemble and PJ Morton - This Christmas

Nu Deco Ensemble and PJ Morton playing Hathaway's holiday classic, "This Christmas" from their show at the Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami, FL on Dec 12, 2019. Nu Deco Ensemble’s mission is to create compelling and transformative genre-bending musical experiences that inspire, enrich and connect new and diverse audiences and artists. Since its inception in 2015, Nu Deco Ensemble has exploded onto Miami’s eclectic musical scene captivating audiences, holistically engaging with its community and fusing innovative, genre-bending orchestral performances and collaborations with the highest levels of musical artistry. Nu Deco is reimagining a fresh vision of what an orchestra can achieve in the 21st century. Created by two of classical music’s most in demand artists, Jacomo Bairos and Sam Hyken, Nu Deco Ensemble is a flexible and innovative hybrid orchestra that celebrates living composers, reimagines all genres of music, and collaborates with a wide range of diverse musical guests, composers, choreographers, dancers, and mixed media artists. Recent highlights include exclusive collaborations with Macy Gray, Ben Folds, Jacob Collier, Kimbra, Kishi Bashi, Time for Three, Danay Suarez, Cory Henry, Stephen Marley, Emily King, Bilal, Luke James and many more award winning composers and cross-over artists. The New York Times has hailed Nu Deco Ensemble as a “Chamber orchestra for the 21st century”, Billboard has announced them as “Sonically Spellbinding” and Saratoga Living exclaimed them as “fiery, captivating and refreshingly original”. In October of 2019, Nu Deco Ensemble releases its first Album to include genre-bending collaborations, reimaginings of artists such as Outkast and Daft Punk, and new music by some of today’s most exciting living composers. Nu Deco Ensemble engages the Miami community in dynamic ways to serve and enrich all walks of our diverse culture and people. The orchestra inspires and engages over 10,000 children annually through their interactive Imagination Series and annually brings hundreds of community members from underserved communities to attend performances. In Spring of 2020, Nu Deco Ensemble launches its Youth Orchestra which in addition to instruction in classical and popular musical styles, arranging, composition, and improvisation offers coaching in wellness, health, leadership, collaborative communication, interpersonal skills, and community stewardship. PJ website: https://www.pjmortonmusic.com PJ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pjmorton PJ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PJMORTON PJ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thepjmorton Listen to Nu Deco on Spotify and Apple Music: https://moremusic.at/SpotifyNDE https://moremusic.at/AppleMusicNDE Follow Nu Deco Ensemble: http://nu-deco.org​ http://instagram.com/nudecoensemble​ http://facebook.com/nudecoensemble​ http://twitter.com/nudecoensemble​ http://tiktok.com/@nudecoensemble http://samhyken.com/​ http://jacomo-bairos.com
bottom of page