STANLEY COWELL ~LIVE AT MAYBECK RECITAL HALL ~ NEW CD!

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STANLEY COWELL LIVE AT MAYBECK RECITAL HALL 5 Stars - Excellent - "..a jolly walk on the wild side of jazz classics. ------------- Down Beat (3/91)"Excellent live recording" -------- M.B. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CD IS BRAND NEW ~ FACTORY SEALED ~ 1990 EDITION - LABEL: BELLAPHON, GERMANY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ITEMS ARE DESCRIBED WITH INTEGRITY ~~~~~~ Pay only $1.50 shipping for each additional item! (For USA orders only) (media mail on combined shipments) CLICK & SEE MY EBAY STORE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TRACKS 1. Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise ~ 2:092. Stompin' at the Savoy Listen ~ 3:413. I Am Waiting ~ 5:564. Nefertiti ~ 4:385. Jitterbug Waltz ~ 5:00 6. Stella by Starlight ~ 3:467. I'll Remember April ~ 4:418. Lament ~ 4:189. Out of This World ~ 4:3010. Django ~ 5:5611. Big Foot ~ (aka "Air Conditioning") ~ 3:16 12. Little Sunny ~ 3:4913. Autumn Leaves ~ 4:2714. Cal Massey ~ 3:54 TOTAL PLAYING TIME ~ 62:01 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ COMMENTS Excellent piano player I saw Stanley live when he was touring with the Heath Brothers back in the early 80's. He had so many things going on with both left and right hands that I lost track. He is an extremely underrated piano player. This disk is a chance to hear one of the masters stretch. A wonderful blend of the cerebral combined with swing. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A pianistic love affair was a freshman at Scott High School (Toledo, Ohio) when I knew him. He was a diminutive kid, but when he sat down to the piano, everyone was in total awe of his abilities.Many years later, Stanley sat down on a piano bench at Maybeck Recital Hall, Berkeley, California, and has coaxed sounds out of his piano that simply amaze the listener. He is a mature musician who has paid his dues playing for lounges, and who was one of the mainstays of the Heath Brothers (an off shoot of the Modern Jazz Quartet years). His craft is strong and determined, his improvisations are absolutely delicious. He is a major jazz pianist with a mind toward including his own ideas and seasonings in some of the great standards of popular music. I have listened to this disc over and over...the sound is full and satisfying. The musicianship is the best.....Stanley Cowell, you've come a long way from Scott High School in Toledo, Ohio, and you're magnificent. This is a first rate example of huge, important talent in today's world of jazz. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ STANLEY COWELLStanley Cowell, pianist and composer, was born in Toledo, Ohio, in 1941. He studied piano t with Mary Belle Shealy and Elmer Gertz, and pipe organ with J. Harold Harder. By the age of fifteen, he was a featured soloist with the Toledo Youth Orchestra in Kabelevsky's Piano Concerto No. 3, a church organist/choir director, and a budding jazz pianist. Cowell's formal training in music has been quite extensive: a Bachelor of Music degree from Oberlin Conservatory and a Master of Music degree from the University of Michigan. He also has additional undergraduate study at the Mozarteum Akademie, Salzburg, Austria, and graduate study at Wichita State University and the University of Southern California. While at U.S.C., 1963-64, he performed Gershwin's Concerto in F with the Burbank Symphony Orchestra, and played jazz in the Los Angeles area with Curtis Amy's and Ray Crawford's bands. After completing his Masters at Michigan in 1966, Cowell headed for New York City w he worked for such musical artists as Max Roach, Abbey Lincoln, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Herbie Mann, Miles Davis, Stan Getz and the Bobby Hutcherson-Harold Land groups. For several years he was part of Charles Tolliver's Music Inc., with whom he formed the innovative musician-owned record company, Strata-East, in 1971. Cowell organized the Piano Choir in 1972, a group of seven esteemed New York-based keyboardists, and he became a founding member of the Collective Black Artists, Inc., a non-profit company devoted to bringing African-American music and musicians to the public. He s... read more

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