Stanley Cowell


Stanley Cowell is an American jazz pianist and co-founder of the Strata-East Records label.

Early life

Cowell was born in Toledo, Ohio. He began playing the piano at around the age of four, "and first became interested in jazz after gaining exposure to the music of pianist Art Tatum, a family friend". "After high school, he attended both the Oberlin College Conservatory and the University of Michigan, during which time he also gained valuable experience playing with Rahsaan Roland Kirk". He moved to New York in the mid-1960s.

Later life and career

Cowell played 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 taught in the Music Department of the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.

Discography

As leader

As sideman

With Gary Bartz
With Marion Brown
With Larry Coryell
With Richard Davis
With Sonny Fortune
With Roy Haynes
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
With Jimmy Owens
With Art Pepper
With Max Roach
With Charles Sullivan
With Buddy Terry
With Charles Tolliver