About
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Gabriel Morales is a Venezuelan-American guitarist, vocalist, composer, and producer based in Brooklyn, NY.
Pulling on influences ranging from electric blues and jazz to contemporary composition and Latin-American folk, the work Gabriel creates as a solo artist rejects strict categorization. His writing is rooted in the blues, while exploring a wider harmonic and rhythmic palette paired with modern songwriting sensibilities. Going in hand with these aesthetics, his lyrics deal with themes of identity, change, and perception.
Gabriel has performed with musicians and bands such as Snarky Puppy, Michael League, Kassa Overall, Ben Williams, Carla Canales, Jamie McLean Band, and Tippan Phasuk, among others.
In addition to performance, he produces, engineers, and mixes projects for various artists ranging from latino songwriter to indie jazz.
Passionate about music and arts advocacy, Gabriel has worked with non-for-profits and organizations such as The Canales Project, Music Lab at Jefferson Center, Education Through Music (New York), Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute, Oberlin Center for the Arts, and Taubman Museum of Art. He is also a teaching artist at Harlem School of the Arts.
Gabriel studied under Bobby Ferrazza (Donald Byrd, Clark Terry), earning a B.M. in Jazz Guitar Performance in June, 2022 from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Oberlin, Ohio.
Music
All for you love (ep)
February 13, 2025
Written, performed, engineered, mixed, mastered, produced by Gabriel Morales
FIND ME
July 19, 2024
Written and recorded in 2022, this song explores the points of intersection between songwriting, contemporary composition, blues, improvisational, and production influences. Lead and background vocals, electric and acoustic guitars, oberheim four voice, mellotron, electric bass, percussion, drums, production, lyrics, composition, recorded, mixed, and mastered by Gabriel Morales
From Here
August 26, 2021
A third single released in the summer of 2021. Written, mixed, and mastered by Gabe Morales. All instruments and vocals performed by Gabe Morales with exception of drum kit performed by Jeremy McCabe.
Smoke
July 16, 2021
A second single released in the summer of 2021. Initial rhythm section recording session with Daniel Faust (drums) and Alex Bingham (bass) in North Carolina in January, 2019. Additional instruments and vocals recorded, mixed, and mastered by Gabe Morales in June-July, 2021.
Remember
June 25, 2021
A new single written, recorded, mixed, mastered, and produced by Gabe Morales in the summer of 2021
Concerts
Video
Gabe Morales’ solo on "Recife's Blues" by Claudio Roditi in Cleveland, Ohio on May 21, 2022 with Mark Ligonde, Arthur Welsh, Jamey Haddad, and Jay Ashby
Gabe sitting in with Snarky Puppy on their song "What About Me" at the Jefferson Center on June 17, 2015
Gabe with Snarky Puppy and Jayna Brown on her song, "I'll Do Me" as a part of Family Dinner Volume One at the Jefferson Center on March 8, 2013
“Smoke” written by Gabe Morales, performed at Rockwood Music Hall in New York, NY on December 16, 2017
“Dying Love” written by Gabe Morales, performed by the Gabe Morales Trio at Blue 5 Restaurant on September 23, 2017
“All The Way” written by Gabe Morales, performed while opening for Robert Cray at the Jefferson Center on October 9, 2014
