Moris Tepper

Moris Tepper, sometimes approved as Jeff Moris Tepper, is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and artist.

Tepper first came to inflection in the late 1970s subsequent to Captain Beefheart. He has in addition to worked in imitation of singers Tom Waits, PJ Harvey, Robyn Hitchcock and Frank Black. He has recorded several solo albums. His album Head Off (2004) includes a lyrical collaboration taking into consideration the reclusive Beefheart following the song "Ricochet Man".

Tepper met Beefheart (alias Don Van Vliet) by fortuitous while studying as an art student in Northern California in the mid-1970s. Van Vliet had already started to focus on painting and although they shared this in common it was similar to Van Vliet literary Tepper knew guitar parts to Trout Mask Replica that he became avid in putting together a extra band concerning Tepper's unique guitar sound. This was done superior in Los Angeles after Van Vliet and Frank Zappa had reunited briefly for the Bongo Fury tour. The consequences of the extra band led to arguably some of Captain Beefheart's most creative music efforts including albums Shiny Beast (1978), Doc at the Radar Station (1980) and Ice Cream for Crow (1982). Tepper associated The Magic Band in 1976 and stayed in the band until 1982. He is one of the longest serving (without a break) Magic Band members and the only one to receive production bill for Ice Cream for Crow (1982)

Tepper's first released solo be in beginning with Big Enough to Disappear (1996) and then Moth to Mouth (2000) came after having been a sideman for many years. His music has been reviewed as "accessibly avant-garde" and although it may be difficult to shed his sideman cult status he remains inspired. Stingray in the Heart (2008) was described as an album that never pauses in a familiar territory.

Tepper is as a consequence a painter and he divides his epoch between music and painting.