Welcome to ashleymorgan.com, the official blog of trumpet player, composer and blogger Ashley Morgan.
One year later
Almost a year ago I launched ashleymorgan.com and started my 2009 micropatronage initiative. Put simply, I offered, and continue to offer, people the opportunity to support my music career by offering direct financial support. Everyone who donates, or supports me in any way, gets rewarded with a free album of their choice. Today I am very pleased [...]
Posted : 16 November 2009
Categories : News
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Defeating time
Creativity takes time. Writing an album, especially an album that has so much personal emotional resonance, takes a lot of time. Indeed, it would be more accurate to say that it takes as much time as it requires. And for that reason I have changed my manifesto, replacing the word year with the word cycle. I think [...]
Posted : 12 November 2009
Categories : Composition
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Bloodline blog design
I’ve just realigned the blog design here at ashleymorgan.com. The palette is intended to represent the bloodline theme of the current album, using reds and flesh tones to highlight areas of the layout against a muted off white background. Enjoy the new design.
Posted : 12 September 2009
Categories : News, Social Networking
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Bloodline
Blood, or more specifically the passing of blood from one generation to the next, is central to the theme of my current album. I explained some months ago, when I outlined the album framework, the importance of the three women in my life. Three pieces underpin the tone of the album reflecting the three women that [...]
Posted : 17 August 2009
Categories : Composition, Personal
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Is this the perfect jazz trumpet microphone?
Pretty, isn’t it? The Rupert Neve sE RNR1. I’ll let the sE Electronics press release handle the introduction. The sE/Rupert Neve collaboration Ribbon is the first of several mics being readied for production in this Rupert Neve Signature sE series. The RNR1 offers revolutionary performance, courtesy of a unique blend of discrete circuits and purpose designed, transformers [...]
Posted : 02 July 2009
Categories : Equipment, Hardware
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The microphone dilemna
Recording a jazz album requires many things. One of which, in an ideal world, is an airy live room, preferably equipped with a choice of grand pianos, each perfectly tuned and set up with microphones that are nuetral and clear, capable of capturing everything in ecsquisite detail. Why is the piano the key? Because it’s the [...]
Posted : 19 June 2009
Categories : Equipment
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Searching for the perfect microphone
I need a new microphone. Something exotic. Something that will accurately and cleanly represent every nuance and every shade of tone that David Monette built into my horn. Something that will allow me to convey the level of emotion that I intend to pour down the lead pipe, through the valve block and out through [...]
Posted : 04 June 2009
Categories : Equipment
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The truth about record labels
They don’t work. A record label exists only to syphon money from the public into the pockets of the men in the ill fitting suits. Independent musicians don’t need them and never will again. Those days are, thankfully, gone. That is why Big Arena Records has today relaunched as a blog for independent musicians. Running an [...]
Posted : 27 May 2009
Categories : News
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The most beautiful girl in the world
I’m blessed to have a wonderfully supportive family who understand fully the needs and implications of my choice of career. I’m also very lucky to be working from home, as a musician and blogger, enjoying every moment of the life that is around me. Watching my daughter grow is the greatest privilege that I will ever [...]
Posted : 25 April 2009
Categories : Personal
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Announcing the title of the Ashley Morgan 2009 album
The Ashley Morgan 2009 album is entitled Eden, after my wonderful and very beautiful daughter who turned two years old today.
Posted : 04 April 2009
Categories : News, Personal
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