Released 1974 Musa Ancestral Streams
(1974) Handscapes 2
(1975) Release date 1974 Genre Jazz | Length 38:04 Artist Stanley Cowell Label Strata-East Records | |
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Recorded December 10 & 11, 1973 at Minot Studios, White Plains, New York Producer Stanley Cowell and Viki McLaughlin Similar Stanley Cowell albums, Jazz albums | ||
Musa: Ancestral Streams is a solo piano album by Stanley Cowell recorded in 1973 and first released on the Strata-East label. It features solo acoustic piano primarily but the song 'traveling man' is duet between electric piano (most probably fender rhodes and african thumb piano or kalimba)
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Reception
In his review for AllMusic, Jason Ankeny states "Musa Ancestral Streams remains a relative oddity in the pantheon of jazz's black consciousness movement -- a solo piano set of stunning reach and scope, its adherence to intimacy contrasts sharply with the bold, multi-dimensional sensibilities that signify the vast majority of post-Coltrane excursions into spiritual expression, yet the sheer soulfulness and abandon of Stanley Cowell's performance nevertheless vaults the record into the same physical and metaphysical planes".
Track listing
All compositions by Stanley Cowell
- "Abscretions" 5:10
- "Equipoise" - 3:44
- "Prayer for Peace" - 7:07
- "Emil Danenberg" - 2:45
- "Maimoun" - 6:30
- "Travelin' Man" - 2:56
- "Departure No. 1" - 5:25
- "Departure No. 2" - 2:15
- "Sweet Song" - 3:05
Personnel
Songs
1Abscretions5:10
2Equipoise3:44
3Prayer for Peace7:07