Morgan Powell Obituary
CHAMPAIGN – Morgan E. Powell, caring listener, mischief maker, joke-teller, quip-slinger, ditty-singer, hug-aholic, gentle lover of people, home and guerrilla gardener, once called a combonist tromposer, light handed teacher, charismatic band-leader, as comfortable talking to his audience as playing his horn (and boy, did he play that horn), died Aug. 20, 2023 after a year of valiantly fighting metastatic pancreatic cancer.
Digitized collections by Morgan Powell, free to download and play.
This is a paper written for a class at Temple University – Creative Process.
An artist composes of himself and his times. Morgan Powell has been known as the simplest of people and the most complex at the same time.
There is a new (2017) set of recorded music compositions and improvisation from 1957 through 2014 by Morgan online titled Organic Roots. Music on these 5 CDs cannot be purchased as disks but can be heard at various online music sources (iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, Pandora, etc.).
“…Through the processes of composing, performing, and hearing this music the bar is raised to a new level of what constitutes ‘creative’ music.” — Jim McNeely, jazz pianist/composer “…Powell’s music sits at the intersection of the experimental jazz tradition and …
There is an element in Powell’s music, maybe it’s the jazz esthetic, that infuses a graceful linear clarity. As each piece is experienced, it seems to curve more often than it corners. The end result for this listener is that …
Some Reviews of the 2015 CD, ON AND OFF THE SCORE Read More »
Sounding Our Depths: The Music of Morgan Powell – by Ann Starr. Available for purchase on eBay or contact Morgan Powell.
Morgan Powell Music Manuscripts, 1958-2014 | The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music
Morgan Powell on the Creative Process: The Reality of Maborosi, Ann Starr, NewMusicBox, The Web Magazine from the American Music Center
Moving Away from the Center of Jazz: Thomas Wirtel, a.k.a. Thomas Shabda Noor, Ann Starr, NewMusicBox, The Web Magazine from the American Music Center
