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Stanley Cowell

 
Artist: Stanley Cowell
 
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Influenced By:

Duke Ellington, McCoy Tyner, Richard Hoffman, Cecil Taylor, Art Tatum

Performed Songs By:

Thelonious Monk

Worked With:

Nils Winther, Charles Tolliver, Bobby Hutcherson, Roy Haynes, Art Pepper, Cecil McBee, Jimmy Heath
  • Born: May 05, 1941, Toledo, OH
  • Active: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, 2000s
  • Genres: Jazz
  • Instrument: Piano
  • Representative Albums: "Live at Cafe Des Copains," "Live at Maybeck Recital Hall, Vol. 5," "Travellin' Man"
  • Representative Songs: "Equipoise," "Brilliant Circles," "The Jitterbug Waltz"

Biography

An excellent modern, mainstream pianist who is adaptable to many acoustic jazz settings, Stanley Cowell has long been underrated except among knowing musicians. He studied the piano from the time he was four, and Art Tatum made an early impact. After attending Oberlin College Conservatory and the University of Michigan, Cowell (who had played with Rahsaan Roland Kirk while at Oberlin) moved to New York in 1966. He played regularly with Marion Brown (1966-1967), Max Roach (1967-1970), and the Bobby Hutcherson-Harold Land quintet (1968-1971). In the early '70s, Cowell worked in Music Inc. with Charles Tolliver, and they co-founded the label Strata East. He played regularly with the Heath Brothers during 1974-1983, and since 1981 has been a busy jazz educator. Cowell has recorded as a leader for Arista-Freedom (1969), ECM (1972), Strata East, Galaxy, Unisson, DIW, Concord, and SteepleChase. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
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Stanley Cowell playing with The Heath Brothers in Rockefeller Center, June 1977

Stanley Cowell (born May 05, 1941 in Toledo, Ohio) is an American jazz pianist and founder of the Strata-East Records label. He played with Roland Kirk while studying at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and later with Marion Brown, Max Roach, Bobby Hutcherson, Clifford Jordan, Harold Land, and Stan Getz.[1] Cowell played with trumpeter Charles Moore and others in the Detroit Artist's Workshop Jazz Ensemble in 1965-66. During the late 1980s Cowell was part of a regular quartet led by J.J. Johnson.[2]

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Discography

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As leader

  • 1973: Illusion Suite
  • 1974: Musa: Ancestral Streams
  • 1975: Regeneration
  • 1977: Waiting For The Moment

As sideman

With Johnny Griffin

With Bobby Hutcherson

With Art Pepper

Notes

  1. ^ Fairweather, Digby; Ian Carr; Brian Priestley (2004). The Rough Guide to Jazz. p. 286. 
  2. ^ Yanow, Scott. Bebop. p. 92. 

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