Musa: Ancestral Streams

Musa: Ancestral Streams
Studio album by
Stanley Cowell
Released1974
RecordedDecember 10–11, 1973
StudiosMinot Studios, White Plains, New York
GenreJazz
Length38:04
LabelStrata-East SES-19743
ProducersStanley 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.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusicStarStarStarStar
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record GuideStarStarStarStar

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

  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., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 52. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.