Musicians:

Jeremy Morris: Guitars, keyboards, bass, drums, vocals
David Dietrich: Drums and percussion
William Morris: Trumpet and sax on "Translated"

Tracklist:
Side one
1. I don't want to see you cry
2. Love I never knew
3. Translated
4. Toward the sky
5. Child inside
6. Mark's song

Side two
1. Alive
2. Heaven at midnight
3. Monday morning
4. Turn my head around
5. The key
6. Part of me / Part of you
7. Alive again

This is nowadays a rare Jeremy Morris album. It's his debut album and it was released in 1984. Jeremy's Beatles influenced pop/rock has since then been heard on 22 releases!!!

It's no exaggeration to say that Jeremy is a busy man. "Alive" is one of the heavier Jeremy albums and he's sometimes even close to Glam-rock ?

à la The Sweet on some tracks. This is my favorite Jeremy album together with the far more progressive "Pilgrim's Journey" (Kinesis, 1995) and "Celestial City" (Kinesis, 1997) and the pop jewel "Pop Heaven" (Jam, 1998).

The highlights are "I Don't Want To See You Cry", "Love I Never Knew", "Translated", the instrumental title-track "Alive" and "Turn My Head Around".

There's only about 30 copies left of the initial pressing of 5,000 copies of this LP. As this album isn't available on CD you have to hurry up if you want to buy a copy. The price is $10.00 from Jam Records.

JAM RECORDS JAM 701

-Reviewed by Greger Rönnqvist-

Musicians:

Dave Dietrich: Drums and Percussion
Bill Morris: Trumpet on "Home Tonight"
Jeremy: Guitars, Bass, Keyboards

Jeremy is a musician that is standing with one foot in pop rock and one foot in progressive rock.

His releases on Jam Records have been those who is categorized pop rock, while his releases on the Kinesis label are the ones who are progressive.

He's also released an album on the Moonchild label where the music is a blend of pop rock and progressive rock.

This CD was his second on the Jam label, and it was originally released in 1987. This "re-release" contains 7 bonus tracks from the original sessions.

The highlight are the opening track "Tear Down The Walls" and "Let's Go Up" where he is rhyming "See you later at the elevator-" and "Too Late Tomorrow".

The Beatles and John Lennon influences are obvious already on this second release.

The original LP release was pressed in 6,700 copies and they are almost sold-out, so if you want the LP release of this album you better hurry up.

There's also a video collection available from this album.

JAM RECORDS JAM CD-702

-Reviewed by Greger Rönnqvist-

Musicians:

Jeremy: Guitars, Bass, Keyboards, Vocals
Dave Dietrich: Drums and Percussion

Tracklist:
1. Coming Home To You (5:37)
2. Destroy All Evil (4:27)
3. Smash The Idol (4:37)
4. Reap What You Sow (5:17)
5. Come Into My Heart (4:37)
6. Lead Me To The Light (4:37)
7. Hero With No Honor (4:19)
8. When It All Comes True (4:37)
9. I Want To Be With You (3:35)
10. Turn To Me Now (3:40)
11. Invisible (5:07)
12. Truth Won't Go Away (3:40)
13. Take A Look Into My Eyes (6:17)
14. Who Do You Love? (4:27)
15. My Heart Is Broken Now (3:07)
16. When A Part Of You Dies (5:47)

Jeremy is a multi-instrumentalist in the same vein as Steven McCabe of Elegant Simplicity and Steve Cochrane. His diversity is also shown in the music.

He has released so many CD's that they're almost impossible to remember, and every CD is differing between each other in styles and genres.

On this release he's mixing Bubblegum Pop with Glam Rock. There are reminiscences to The Beatles, Cheap Trick, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Slade, Smokie and The Sweet.

The overall feeling is happy, cheerful and positive.

The highlights are "Coming Home to you", "I want to be with you" that also can be found on the "Pop Matters" compilation, "Take A Look into My Eyes", "Who do you love?" and "My Heart Is Broken Now".

Although it's quite enjoyable I think that this is one of Jeremy's weakest moments. The production isn't too good either. Both the songwriting and the production were much better on Jeremy's 1995 Kinesis release "Pilgrim's Journey". Check that CD out before this one.

JAM RECORDS JAM CD-704

-Reviewed by Greger Rönnqvist-

Tracklist:
Side one
1. Singing praises (2:11)
2. Delight yourself in him (2:17)
3. The truth, the way, the life (3:03)
4. I'm a winner (2:00)
5. The mind of Christ (1:33)
6. So good to me (1:57)
7. I can do all things through Christ (2:05)
8. Let the power fall (1:44)
9. Let it be known (2:45)
10. Lord I draw near you (2:27)
11. Praise god always (2:05)
12. Glory to God (2:57)
13. Worship the Lord (1:55)
14. Lord I forgive (3:22)
15. You are everything (1:55)
16. Jesus I love you (1:07)
17. From your heart (1:45)

Side two
1. Give the glory (1:50)
2. Harden not your heart (2:22)
3. Blessed be God (2:27)
4. Hands held to the sky (3:22)
5. Forever (3:07)
6. You are the song (1:50)
7. King of Kings (2:55)
8. Stand up (2:05)
9. I love you (2:35)
10. I come before you (2:40)
11. Our father will provide (4:24)
12. Give it all (2:23)
13. You are Lord (1:50)
14. You alone are God (2:17)
15. Free (1:17)

All titles composed and performed by Jeremy Morris

This is the first of four music cassettes that Jeremy Morris has released through "Word of Life Foursquare Church" containing all-Christian music.

The four cassette releases are "King Of Kings" (CROWN 001, 1989) "Lord Of Lords" (CROWN 002, 1992), "Faithful And True" (CROWN 003, 1995), "Music To Praise The Lord" (CROWN 004, 1999).

The music is close to the Beatles pop that Jeremy are playing on the main part of his releases. The songs are very short. The shortest being 1:07, and with only one song longer than 3:30.

If you're a true Christian and love Jesus Christ and Pop music this is the perfect combination.

CROWN CS 001

-Reviewed by Greger Rönnqvist-

Musicians:

Dave Dietrich: Drums
Jeremy Morris: Vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards

Tracklist:
1. Still in love with you (4:17)
2. All the things (3:47)
3. Money talks (4:37)
4. The angels watch over you (6:20)
5. He'll never let you down (4:22)
6. Neverending friend (3:58)
7. I will be there (5:22)
8. You are the one (3:02)
9. For chosen ones (5:40)
10. Never let you go (3:00)
11. Love of my life (2:47)
12. My friend (4:11)
13. Without you (4:11)
14. Katherine (2:49)
15. When I realize (3:08)
16. No more looking back (6:47)
17. Breath of air (2:30)
18. Sleep good (1:50)

Carrying on his journey through pop land, this is yet another Jeremy Morris release.

This time Jeremy has managed to put 18 pop songs into one CD.

The tracks are recorded between November 1987 and November 1990.

Beautiful as always when it comes to Jeremy, he's singing about all the good things in life and much more. Just like AC/DC you'll seldom get surprised when you hear Jeremy. His Beatles influences is always present.

The highlights are the opening track "Still In Love With You", "All The Things", "He'll never let you down", "I Will Be There" and "Katherine" where he is singing about his wife. An ordinary Jeremy release, not one of his best and not one of his worst.

JAM RECORDS JAM CD-706

-Reviewed by Greger Rönnqvist-

All Songs composed and performed by Jeremy Morris.

On Jeremy's seventh album on the Jam label, he's continuing with his John Lennon reminiscent pop music.

As usual it's very soft and very nice pop music with the highlights "Will You Turn Me away?" and "Celestial City".

JAM RECORDS JAM CD-707

-Reviewed by Greger Rönnqvist-

This is Jeremy's second release with Christian music released through "Word of Life".

Besides the religious lyrics the music is quite similar to his other works, following the tradition of "Seven" (1992).

The highlight is the opening "Lord of Lords".

CROWN CROWN CS 002

-Reviewed by Greger Rönnqvist-

Musicians:

Dave Dietrich: Drums and Percussion
Jeremy: Guitars, Keyboards and Bass

This is Jeremy's 8th release on Jam Records and it's quite different to his previous releases on the label.

Now he's discovering the progressive rock genre with this all-instrumental album.

Gone are the John Lennon influences and now there are reminiscences to Elegant Simplicity, Steve Hackett, Pink Floyd, Mike Oldfield and Anthony Phillips.

There's only a few copies left of the CD so you better hurry up if you want a copy.

JAM RECORDS JAM CS-708

-Reviewed by Greger Rönnqvist-

Musicians:

Jeremy: 12 String Guitar, 6 String Guitar, Piano, Bass, Synthesizer, Chimes, Wind, Tape Effects, Vocals
Nonny and Futzel: Barking Vocals

This is a collection of Jeremy's earliest recordings from 1975-1979.

The main part of the album is acoustic and you can hear the John Lennon influences already at this early stage of Jeremy's music.

Unfortunately these early recordings is rather uninteresting.

JAM RECORDS JAM CS-709

-Reviewed by Greger R? ¦önnqvist-

Musicians:

Jeremy: 12 String Guitar, 6 String Guitar, Slide Guitar, Piano, Bass, Drums, Synthesizer, E-Bow, Tape Effects, Wind, Vocals

Tracklist:
Side One
1. Emerald Vision (5:50)
2. I Want You With Me (7:07)
3. Stranger To Yourself (3:17)
4. I Am A Child (2:19)
5. Lead Me To Your Door (10:40)
6. Happy Times (0:47)

Side Two
1. Dawning Of The Day (3:33)
2. Blind Parade (3:22)
3. Don't Turn Out The Light (2:25)
4. Out Of The Darkness (3:30)
5. Don't Leave Me Alone (5:00)
6. Eternal Delight (2:30)
7. New Jerusalem (9:27)

On this release Jeremy is playing all the instruments by himself. The drummer Dave Dietrich is usually handling the drumming on Jeremy's releases but not on this one.

The sparse use of drumming makes this album rather mellow, quiet and acoustic.

It's almost like a Jeremy goes unplugged release.

This isn't one of my favorite Jeremy albums even though it's quite reminiscent to his other releases. The problem is that the songs never "takes off", they just keeps going and going without really getting anywhere.

JAM RECORDS JAM CS-710

-Reviewed by Greger Rönnqvist-

Musicians:

John Hendrix: Guitar, Vocals
Mike Morris: Drums
John Nadelin: Drums
Jeremy: Guitar, Bass, Keyboards, Vocals

In 1993 Jeremy released a collection called "Invitation" with material that was recorded 1975-1979.

This is his second collection, and it has material recorded 1978-1979.

Unfortunately it's also as uninteresting as the first collection. This release is soon out of print, so hurry up if you want a copy.

JAM RECORDS JAM CS-711

-Reviewed by Greger Rönnqvist-

This is Jeremy's third release with religious lyrics.

It is released through Word of Life.

The music is the same as his pop rock releases through Jam Records, so if you like them you'll surely like this as well.

CROWN CS 003

-Reviewed by Greger Rönnqvist-

Musicians:

Jeremy: Guitars, Bass, Keyboards, Vocals
Dave Dietrich
: Drums and Percussion

Tracklist:
1. Solid Rock (7:22)
2. I've Been Rejected (3:37)
3. I'm Leaving (4:07)
4. Hard To Hide The Pain (5:37)
5. I Want To Stay With You (5:37)
6. Big Brain (4:37)
7. Stop Hurting Each Other (6:17)
8. Can't Stop Loving You (5:07)
9. Tell Me The Truth (5:37)
10. Looking For You (3:57)
11. Need You Now (4:17)
12. Breaking My Heart (10:37)

Before I start to review this CD I will tell you about some funny things I couldn't miss notice when I was looking through the tracklist to this CD.

3 of the songs are 5:37 minutes.

6 of the songs has a playing time that ends with :37

All the tracks have the number 7 in their playing time. I guess that this is all a coincident, but I started looking at Jeremy's release "Invisible" (1996) and came up with the following "fantastic facts".

All in all those two albums has:

4 songs that are 5:37 minutes.

11 songs that has a playing time that ends with :37

24 of the 38 songs have the number 7 in their playing time.

The total playing time on both of the albums also has the number 7 in it.

Well, this hasn't anything to do with the review but I just couldn't help notice it.

Enough on this anyway here is the review:

On this album Jeremy is close to hard rock on some tracks, but there's also nice Pop songs. Still there's influences from The Beatles (I guess that Jeremy are a big fan of The Beatles) and Cheap Trick, but there's also reminiscences to The Sweet and The Who.

There's plenty of distorted guitar here but performed in a gentle way. Just like John Lennon and Paul McCartney, Jeremy has a great sense for good melodies and catchy choruses.

My favorite tracks on this CD are "Solid Rock", "I Want To Stay With You", "Can't Stop Loving You" and "Tell Me The Truth".

The later reminds me of a song by the Swedish band Vivid called "The Bird Was Singing".

Just like on Jeremy's "Invisible" album (1996) this CD lacks in the production, but otherwise this album is better.

Jeremy has released two albums on the Kinesis label and one album on the Moonchild label, and all three of them have a better production.

I only wished that Jeremy had a bigger label behind him on this album too as it has some great qualities.

JAM RECORDS JAM CD-712

-Reviewed by Greger Rönnqvist-

Jeremy comes from a musical family, and he began playing piano at age six.

This instrumental concept album is Jeremy's first CD for Kinesis and his 15th album all in all.

Everything on this album is played by Jeremy himself except for the drums on "Always Will Return", played by Dave Dietrich.

His music is somewhere between New Age and '70's progressive and symphonic rock. The music is a mix between Camel, Genesis, The Moody Blues, Mike Oldfield, Pink Floyd and Tangerine Dream.

His guitar playing is reminiscent to David Gilmour, Steve Hackett, Anthony Phillips and Joe Satriani.

It is a very atmospheric album with lengthy guitar and synthesizer soundscapes with complex arrangements.

The highlights on this CD is "Peter's Song" and the excellent epic title track "Pilgrim's Journey" that ends the album and clocks in at 25:17.

The marvelous cover art is a detail from the painting "Housecalls" made by T.E. Breitenbach.

If you're a fan of Steve Hackett and Anthony Phillips, this is a really good album for you to get.

KINESIS KDCD 1015

-Reviewed by Greger Rönnqvist-

Jeremy began playing piano at age six and bought his first guitar at age thirteen. He grew up and became a musical genius.

His 2nd release "Celestial City" is the 2nd album for Kinesis and his 16th all in all.

Just like his previous album "Pilgrim's Journey" from 1995 it's all-instrumental, and the music is very close to that album too.

His music is somewhere between New Age and '70's progressive and symphonic rock.

The music is a mix between Camel, Genesis, The Moody Blues, Mike Oldfield, Pink Floyd, Tangerine Dream and Vangelis.

His emotional guitar playing is reminiscent to Steve Hackett, Andrew Latimer and Anthony Phillips.

All-instrumental albums can quiet often get very tiring, but Jeremy has got the ability to write beautiful and memorable melodies.

Therefore he can grab the listeners attention throughout the entire album.

The highlights on this album is the 10-minute "Invisible War", the 15-minute "The Door" and the Genesis inspired "Celestial City".

This is a classic instrumental symphonic prog album.

KINESIS KDCD 1021

-Reviewed by Greger Rönnqvist-

Musicians:

Jeremy: Guitars, Bass, Keyboards, Vocals
Dave Dietrich: Drums and Percussion

Tracklist:
1. I'm Flying (3:14)
2. Goodbye Bad Guy (3:20)
3. Smells Like Jealousy (2:58)
4. I Don't Exist (3:42)
5. Better Be Yourself (2:41)
6. Crying On The Inside (3:12)
7. You're Not Alone (4:09)
8. Keep The Candle Burning (2:55)
9. Falling In Love (3:07)
10. Come To Me (2:48)
11. Will You Run Away? (4:49)
12. Pop Dreams (2:19)
13. Can't Make You Stay (7:47)
14. Hidden Track: Permanent Vacation (2:01)

On this album Jeremy takes the Pop music he have explored on his previous releases a step further.

This is 100% Pop and the album are therefore called Pop Heaven. Jeremy's songs are firmly rooted in the 60's and the early 70's and bands like Beatles, The Byrds, Cheap Trick, Electric Light Orchestra, The Kinks and The Who.

Especially his Lennon / McCartney influences are very obvious. There are plenty of catchy hooks and memorable melodies.

My favorite tracks are "I'm Flying", "I Don't Exist", "Crying On The Inside", "Keep The Candle Burning", "Will You Run Away?" and the hidden track "Permanent Vacation".

This album are also better produced than Jeremy's releases "Invisible" (1996) and "Solid Rock" (1998).

Although the picture-CD has a smiley on it and the psychedelic front cover as well as the back cover has a smiling face, many of the song lyrics are based around loneliness and lost love.

The main subject on this album is Love, both good and bad. This is one of the best pop releases of 1998, and if all the tracks were as good as the ones I have mentioned, this album would probably get a five star rating. Let Jeremy take you to Pop Heaven!

Recommended!

JAM RECORDS JCD-714

-Reviewed by Greger Rönnqvist-

The follow up album to Jeremy's best pop release "Pop Heaven" (1998).

It's also almost equally good as the successor.

This is splendid pop music with reminiscences to John Lennon.

The highlights are "Here we go now" and the closing ballad "Waiting There". Recommended!

JAM RECORDS JAM-15

-Reviewed by Greger Rönnqvist-

Jeremy comes from a musical family and he began to play piano at the age of six.

When he grew older his father helped him to build a recording studio at home, and Jeremy later started his own record label called JAM Records.

Jeremy is a multi-instrumentalist and his all-instrumental music is a mix between electronic music and '70's progressive and symphonic rock, with some hints from New Age and space rock.

The music is reminiscent to Camel, Edgar Froese, Genesis, Jean Michel Jarre, The Moody Blues, Mike Oldfield, Pink Floyd, Tangerine Dream and Vangelis. Jeremy plays everything on this album, and he's doing it very well too.

His emotional guitar playing is reminiscent to David Gilmour, Steve Hackett, Andrew Latimer, Anthony Phillips and Joe Satriani.

This is his latest CD and he has left the Kinesis label to release this one on Brian Hirsch's label Moonchild.

He did two albums for the Kinesis label, "Pilgrim's Journey" (1985) and "Celestial City" (1987).

Unfortunately I have to say that I liked his previous two albums better than this one. The reason for that is that he's turned towards synth music with lesser guitar.

It's a shame as I consider him being a very good guitar player. He's got a lot of different synthesizers, and besides the modern ones he has Mini-Moog and an ARP Omni 2.

There's also very much guitar synth on this CD. Unfortunately there's also a lot of drum machines and sequencers. I'm quiet conservative, and in general I don't think that drum machines and sequencers belong in progressive rock.

But as this is electronic progressive rock it isn't as annoying as it usually would have been.

This CD should attract both fans of electronic rock and space rock and it's better than the average electronic albums today.

MOONCHILD MC30427

-Reviewed by Greger Rönnqvist-

Musicians:

All the music composed and performed by Jeremy
Dave Dietrich: Drums
Bill Morris: Trumpet on "Home Tonight" Guillermo "Sitting Rabbit"
Cazenave: Electric guitar on "Vision"

Tracklist:
1. Open Your Heart (7:36)
2. Neverending Friend (3:58)
3. Love Of My Life (2:49)
4. When I Realize (3:05)
5. No More Looking Back (6:47)
6. Take A Look Into My Eyes (6:20)
7. Who Do You Love? (4:27)
8. Vision (2:15)
9. Only With You (1:42)
10. Celestial City (3:37)
11. Still In Love With You (3:58)
12. He'll Never Let You Down (4:18)
13. Will You Turn Me Away (3:09)
14. Be Careful (3:01)
15. Don't Break My Heart (3:16)
16. Best I Can (3:36)
17. Home Tonight (3:47)
18. When You See Her (3:48)
19. Temporary (1:57)

This is a compilation with some new tracks, released by the Spanish label Astral.

There isn't much to say about this release really as it's mainly based on previously released songs.

The main part of the tracks is mellow symphonic pop songs with reminiscences to John Lennon and The Beatles.

There's many highlights on this compilation, but there's also songs that should've been replaced with another songs.

I'm especially missing:
"Coming Home To You" and "I Want To Be With You" from the album "Invisible" (1989)
"Peter's Song" and "Pilgrim's Journey" from the album "Pilgrim's Journey" (1995)
"Solid Rock", "Can't Stop Loving You" and "Tell Me The Truth" from the album "Solid Rock" (1995)
"Invisible War" and "The Door" from the album "Celestial City" (1997)
"I'm Flying", "I Don't Exist", "Crying On The Inside", "Keep The Candle Burning", "Will You Run Away?" and "Permanent Vacation" from the album "Pop Heaven" (1998)

My favorite tracks are "Love Of My Life", "Take A Look Into My Eyes", "Who Do You Love?", "Celestial City", "Still In Love With You", "Don't Break My Heart" and "Home Tonight".

As this is a compilation it might be a good starter if you haven't heard Jeremy before.

If you want to check out his progressive symphonic albums you can start with "Pilgrim's Journey" (1995) or "Celestial City" (1997), and if you want to explore his pop albums you should start with "Pop Heaven" (1998).

ASTRAL CD 42

-Reviewed by Greger Rönnqvist-

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JEREMY Contact
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Jeremy Morris c/o Jam Records 3424 Wedgwood Drive Portage, MI 49024
Home phone: (616) 349-2721
Business phone:/Fax: (616) 349-2060
E-mail: jamrecords@yahoo.com
Or: jeremy.morris@juno.com
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Moonchild records: http://www.moonchildartists.com/moonchild/moonch.shtml
Email Moonchild Records: info@moonchildartists.com
Jeremy website at Kinesis: http://www.kinesiscd.com/jeremy.htm
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