Musa: Ancestral Streams
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{{Infobox album
| name = Musa: Ancestral Streams
| type = Album
| artist = Stanley Cowell
| cover = Musa_-_Ancestral_Sreams.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1974
| recorded = December 10 & 11, 1973 at Minot Studios, White Plains, New York
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Jazz
| length = 38:04
| label = Strata-East SES-19743
| producer = Stanley Cowell and Viki McLaughlin
| chronology = Stanley Cowell
| prev_title = Illusion Suite
| prev_year = 1973
| next_title = Handscapes 2
| next_year = 1975
}}
Musa: Ancestral Streams is a solo piano album by Stanley Cowell, recorded in 1973 and first released on the Strata-East label.[http://www.jazzlists.com/SJ_Stanley_Cowell.htm Stanley Cowell discography] accessed January 5, 2015
Reception
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
|rev2 = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide
| rev2Score = {{rating|4|5}}{{Cite book
|editor-last=Swenson
|editor-first=J.
| author-link =
| year = 1985
| title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide
| publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone
| location = USA
| isbn = 0-394-72643-X
| pages = 52
}}
}}
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".{{allMusic|first=Jason|last=Ankeny|class=album|id=mw0000771842|title=Musa Ancestral Streams – Review|accessdate= January 5, 2015}}
Track listing
All compositions by Stanley Cowell
- "Abscretions" 5:10
- "Equipoise" - 3:44
- "Prayer for Peace" - 7:07
- "Emil Danenberg" - 2:45
- "Maimoun" - 6:30
- "Travelin' Man" - 2:56
- "Departure No. 1" - 5:25
- "Departure No. 2" - 2:15
- "Sweet Song" - 3:05
Personnel
References
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Category:Stanley Cowell albums