Morgan Powell Trombonist with Tone Road Ramblers, Boneyard Jazz Quintet, Jazz Mayhem and In Your Ear Big Band Composer of concert music and jazz. Professor Emeritus of Music, University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana www.morganpowellmusic.com "...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 the classical avant-garde..." — Mark Stryker, music critic Detroit Free Press "Morgan Powell and I grew up in the same musically unpromising small west Texas town. I was struck by his inventiveness, his passion for music, and his discipline..... He had such qualities nearly fifty years ago, and he has them still." — Larry McMurtry, novelist "Morgan's music has soul, spirit, song, effect, guts. I listen to these tunes and I get about every emotional feeling you can get." — Don Owens, Professor of Music, Northwestern University