Stanley Cowell | |
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Stanley Cowell playing with The Heath Brothers in Rockefeller Center, June 1977
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Background information | |
Born |
Toledo, Ohio, U.S. |
May 5, 1941
Genres | Jazz |
Occupation(s) | Musician |
Instruments | Piano |
Associated acts | Roland Kirk, Marion Brown, Charles Tolliver, Max Roach |
Stanley Cowell (born May 5, 1941 in Toledo, Ohio) 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.
With Gary Bartz
With Marion Brown
With Richard Davis
With Sonny Fortune
With Jimmy Heath
With The Heath Brothers
With Stan Getz
With Johnny Griffin
With Bobby Hutcherson
With J.J. Johnson
With Clifford Jordan
With Oliver Nelson