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Released
  
1973

Handscapes(1973)
  
Handscapes 2(1975)

Label
  
Strata-East Records

Handscapes(1973)
  
Release date
  
1973

Genre
  
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Recorded
  
June 18, 1972 and October 28, 1972 at The Public Theater, NYC

Producer
  
Geri Hamlin and The Piano Choir

Similar
  
Regeneration, Long Before Our Mothers, Musa: Ancestral Streams, Sound Awareness, Live at Slugs'

Handscapes is a double live album by The Piano Choir featuring Stanley Cowell, Nat Jones, Hugh Lawson, Webster Lewis, Harold Mabern, Danny Mixon, and Sonelius Smith recorded in 1973 and first released on the Strata-East label.

Contents

Reception

At the time of release Ebony reviewer Phyl Garland said "One needn't be a "piano freak" to appreciate a truly new recording. First of all imagine seven gifted and talented pianists sitting down to seven grand pianos (with electric piano, organ, harpsichord, a few tambourines for spice) and proceeding to tear up these instruments - musically, that is. ...the torrrent of sound springing from their 70 fingers is so powerful and majestic as to be unlike anything one has ever heard." In his review for AllMusic, Michael G. Nastos simply states "Brilliant".

Track listing

Side A:

  1. "Jaboobie's March" (Hugh Lawson) - 13:40
  2. "Straight, No Chaser" (Thelonious Monk) - 6:00
  3. "Precious Lord" (Thomas A. Dorsey) - 4:50

Side B:

  1. "Sanctum Saintorium" (Sonelius Smith) - 13:40
  2. "Nation Time" (Webster Lewis) - 5:40
  3. "Effi" (Sanley Cowell) - 6:50

Side C:

  1. "Man Extensions" (Danny Mixon) - 31:25

Side D:

  1. "The Almoravids" (Joe Chambers) - 15:40
  2. "Killers" (Stanley Cowell) - 7:30

Personnel

  • Stanley Cowell, Nat Jones, Hugh Lawson, Webster Lewis, Harold Mabern, Danny Mixon, Sonelius Smith - piano, electric piano, vocals, percussion, African piano, harpsichord
  • Songs

    1Jaboobie's MarchPiano Choir13:40
    2Straight No ChaserPiano Choir6:00
    3Precious LordPiano Choir4:50

    References

    Handscapes Wikipedia


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