Handscapes
Originally released in 1972 on the famed Strata-East label, co-founder and pianist Stanley Cowell is joined by six of the most talented pianists of their day
Artist: The Piano Choir
Genre: Jazz
Label: Strata East
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Originally released in 1972 on the famed Strata-East label, co-founder and pianist Stanley Cowell is joined by six of the most talented pianists of their day—Nat Jones, Hugh Lawson, Webster Lewis, Harold Mabern, Danny Mixon, and Sonelius Smith—and aptly named The Piano Choir, for a never-before-executed concept and one of the most sought-after albums of the era, Handscapes. Now remastered directly from the original analog tapes, this legendary album is available in digital format for the first time.
About the artist
Stanley Cowell (born May 5, 1941) is an American jazz pianist and co-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, Sonny Rollins and Stan Getz. 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. Cowell teaches in the Music Department of the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.
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