Morgan Powell

Morgan Powell: The Morgan Powell Jazz Album

by Jack Bowers
November 1, 2001

Composer Morgan Powell’s music reminds this listener of some of the more radical charts written years ago for the Stan Kenton Orchestra by Pete Rugolo or the almost–forgotten Bob Graettinger. Powell, a graduate of North Texas State University’s renowned Jazz Studies program, has long sought to transpose his interests in Jazz and classical music into an original and more comprehensive milieu, which he has to some extent accomplished on this album with help from trumpeter, longtime friend and fellow NTSU ...