Stanley Cowell

Stanley Cowell (born May 5, 1941 in Toledo, Ohio) is an American jazz pianist and 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.

As leader

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


 * Strata-East Records
 * 1974: Musa: Ancestral Streams
 * 1975: Regeneration


 * Galaxy Records
 * 1977: Waiting for the Moment
 * 1978: Equipoise
 * 1978: Talkin' 'bout Love
 * 1981: New World


 * SteepleChase Records
 * 1989: Sienna
 * 1993: Angel Eyes
 * 1994: Departure 2
 * 1994: Games
 * 1995: Setup
 * 1995: Bright Passion
 * 1995: Mandara Blossoms
 * 1995: Live
 * 1997: Hear Me One
 * 2012: It's Time
 * 2013: Welcome to This New World


 * DIW Records
 * 1987: We Three
 * 1990: Close to You Alone


 * Other labels
 * 1972: Illusion Suite (ECM, 1973)
 * 1985: Live at Cafe Des Copains (Unisson)
 * 1989: Back to the Beautiful (Concord Jazz)
 * 1990: Live at Maybeck Recital Hall, Vol. 5 (Concord Jazz)
 * 1999: Dancers in Love (Venus)

As sideman
With Marion Brown With The Heath Brothers With Stan Getz With Johnny Griffin With Bobby Hutcherson With Art Pepper With Max Roach With Charles Tolliver
 * Why Not? (1966)
 * Three for Shepp (Impulse!, 1966)
 * Vista (Impulse!, 1975)
 * 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)
 * The Song Is You (1969)
 * Birds and Ballads (1978)
 * Patterns (1968)
 * Medina (1969)
 * Now! (1969)
 * Art Pepper Today (1978)
 * Winter Moon (1980)
 * One September Afternoon (1980)
 * Members, Don't Git Weary (Atlantic, 1968)
 * The Ringer (1969)
 * Live at Slugs' (1970)
 * Music Inc. (1971)
 * Impact (1972)
 * Live At The Loodsrecht Jazz Festival (1973)
 * Live in Tokyo (1973)
 * Impact (1978) quartet & orchestra; different from above