Stanley Cowell

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.

Discography

As leader

Freedom Records

• 1969: Blues for the Viet Cong (also released as Travellin' Man on Black Lion Records)
• 1969: Brilliant Circles

ECM Records

• 1973: Illusion Suite

Strata-East Records

• 1974: Handscapes with The Piano Choir
• 1974: Musa: Ancestral Streams
• 1974: Handscapes 2 with The Piano Choir
• 1975: Regeneration

Galaxy Records

• 1977: Waiting for the Moment
• 1978: Talkin' 'bout Love
• 1978: Equipoise
• 1981: New World

SteepleChase Records

• 1989: Sienna
• 1993: Bright Passion
• 1993: Angel Eyes
• 1993: Live at Copenhagen Jazz House
• 1993: Setup
• 1995: Mandara Blossoms
• 1994: Departure 2
• 1994: Games
• 1997: Hear Me One
• 2010: Prayer For Peace
• 2012: It's Time
• 2013: Welcome to This New World
• 2014: Are You Real?
• 2015: Reminiscent, plus A Xmas Suite

DIW Records

• 1987: We Three with Buster Williams and Frederick Waits
• 1990: Close to You Alone

Other labels

• 1985: Live at Cafe Des Copains (Unisson)
• 1989: Back to the Beautiful (Concord Jazz)
• 1990: Live at Maybeck Recital Hall, Volume Five (Concord Jazz)
• 1999: Dancers in Love (Venus)

As sideman

With Gary Bartz

• Another Earth (Milestone, 1969)

With Marion Brown

• Why Not? (1966)
• Three for Shepp (Impulse!, 1966)
• Vista (Impulse!, 1975)

With Larry Coryell

• Equipoise (Muse, 1985)
• Toku Do (Muse, 1987)

With Richard Davis

• Way Out West (Muse, 1977 [1980])
• Fancy Free (Galaxy)

With Sonny Fortune

• Long Before Our Mothers Cried (Strata-East, 1974)

With Roy Haynes

• Thank You Thank You (Galaxy, 1977)
• Vistalite (Galaxy, 1977 [1979])

With Jimmy Heath

• Love and Understanding (Muse, 1973)
• The Time and the Place (Landmark, 1974 [1994])

With The Heath Brothers

• Marchin' On (1975)
• Passing Thru (1978)
• In Motion (1979)
• Live at the Public Theater (1980)
• Expressions of Life (1980)
• Brotherly Love (1982)
• Brothers and Others (1984)

With Stan Getz

• The Song Is You (1969)

With Johnny Griffin

• Birds and Ballads (1978)

With Bobby Hutcherson

• Patterns (1968)
• Medina (1969)
• Now! (1969)

With J.J. Johnson

• Standards-Live At The Village Vanguard (1988)

With Clifford Jordan

• Glass Bead Games (1973)

With Oliver Nelson

• Swiss Suite (Flying Dutchman, 1971)

With Art Pepper

• Art Pepper Today (1978)
• Winter Moon (1980)
• One September Afternoon (1980)

With Max Roach

• Members, Don't Git Weary (Atlantic, 1968)

With Charles Sullivan

• Genesis (Strata-East, 1974)

With Buddy Terry

• Awareness (Mainstream, 1971)

With Charles Tolliver

• The Ringer (Polydor, 1969)
• Live at Slugs' (Strata-East, 1970)
• Music Inc. (Strata-East, 1971)
• Impact (Enja, 1972)
• Live in Tokyo (Strata-East, 1973)
• Impact (Strata-East, 1975)