Musa: Ancestral Streams

Musa: Ancestral Streams
Studio album by Stanley Cowell
Released 1974
Recorded December 10 & 11, 1973 at Minot Studios, White Plains, New York
Genre Jazz
Length 38:04
Label Strata-East SES-19743
Producer Stanley Cowell and Viki McLaughlin
Stanley Cowell chronology
Illusion Suite
(1973)		 Musa: Ancestral Streams
(1974)		 Handscapes 2
(1975)

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) [1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[3]

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".[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Stanley Cowell

  1. "Abscretions" 5:10
  2. "Equipoise" - 3:44
  3. "Prayer for Peace" - 7:07
  4. "Emil Danenberg" - 2:45
  5. "Maimoun" - 6:30
  6. "Travelin' Man" - 2:56
  7. "Departure No. 1" - 5:25
  8. "Departure No. 2" - 2:15
  9. "Sweet Song" - 3:05

Personnel


References

  1. ↑ Stanley Cowell discography accessed January 5, 2015
  2. 1 2 Ankeny, Jason. Musa Ancestral Streams – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved January 5, 2015.
  3. ↑ Swenson, J. (Editor) (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 52. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
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