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.

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.

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 …

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