Sealed LP: Stanley Cowell: Waiting For The Moment

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Stanley Cowell

Waiting For The Moment

FACTORY SEALED LP

Format: Sealed Album

Country: U.S.A.

Record Company & Release Number: Galaxy Records: GXY-5104

Original release date: 1977

Bar Code: NONE

Condition of the cover: Mint

Condition of this sealed album: Sealed - Assumed Mint

My inventory number: 209226A

Shipping Weight: 1 pounds, 0 ounces

Notes:

This Sealed Album came from a record store in Allentown, Pennsylvania called "Phantasmagoria" which went out of business in 1978. I purchased most of their unsold inventory several years later when I owned "Music Madness" - a new & used record store in Catasauqua, Pennsylvania.

Since this Sealed Album was part of Phantasmagoria's inventory when they closed in 1978, it cannot be any newer than a 1978 pressing. Being a Sealed Album, I cannot tell specifically what pressing it is prior to 1978. In some cases, hype stickers might help to determine if it is a first pressing, but I cannot be any more specific.

Phantasmagoria used round colored stickers to indicate the price of their inventory. They had a sign on the wall with the color sticker combinations for the customers to use so they knew the price of what they were purchasing. Some of the Sealed Albums still have these stickers on them, and in some rare cases, the stickers are written on. Some of the Sealed Albums have prices on them. This is the price you would have paid for this Sealed Album in 1978 if you had bought it at Phantasmagoria. If this Sealed Album has a price on it, please don't confuse the price with the current value for this Sealed Album.

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• Ragtime
• Boogie Woogie
• Parisian Thoroughfare
• ‘Rond Midnight
• Spanish Dancers
• Sienna: Welcome, My Darling
• Sienna: Waiting For The Moment
• Coup De Grass
• Today, What A Beautiful Day

• Jimmy Heath
• Bud Powell
• Thelonious Monk
• Bill Lee
• Stanley Cowell
• Ed Michel: Producer
• Orrin Keepnews: Executive Producer
• Baker Bigsby: Engineering
• Jackson Schwartz: Engineering
• Phil Kaffel: Engineering
• Peter Knapp: Engineering
• Rev. Biggit Bong: Engineering
• David Turner: Mastering
• Phil Carroll: Art Direction
• Scott Lyons: Photography
• Lucinda Cowell: Design
• Terri Hinte
• Jim Stern
• Sue Pye
• Fikki Stein

Album Review for "Waiting For The Moment"

Review by Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

This out-of-print LP is a solo set by Stanley Cowell. The first side has five acoustic numbers which range from the "Ragtime" and "Boogie Woogie" sections of Jimmy Heath's "Afro-American Suite Oof Evolution" to "'Round Midnight" and Bud Powell's "Parisian Thoroughfare." The flip side finds Cowell utilizing both electronics and overdubbing to perform four of his more modern originals. An interesting if not quite essential program.

Stanley Cowell biography by Matt Collar

A superb modern jazz pianist, Stanley Cowell is a highly regarded artist whose work often pushes the boundaries of forward-thinking hard bop without ever falling into completely avant-garde territory. Born in Toledo, Ohio in 1941, Cowell began studying piano around age 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. In the mid-'60s he moved to New York City, where he played regularly with such luminaries as Marion Brown (1966 and 1967), Max Roach (1967 to 1970), and the Bobby Hutcherson-Harold Land Quintet (1968 to 1971).

As a leader, Cowell debuted on the Arista-Freedom label with 1969's Blues for the Viet Cong, followed that same year by Brilliant Circles. He then moved to ECM for 1973's Illusion Suite. Also in the early '70s, he worked regularly with trumpeter Charles Tolliver, with whom he co-founded the Strata East label. Consequently, he delivered several highly regarded albums for the label, including 1974's solo piano date Musa: Ancestral Streams and 1975's Regeneration. Also during this period, he played regularly with the Heath Brothers and continued recording, releasing a handful of solo piano albums for Galaxy Records, including 1977's Waiting for the Moment and 1978's Equipoise.

Beginning in 1981, Cowell started balancing his time between performing and working as an educator, first at CUNY's Lehman College, and then spending several decades at Rutgers University in New Jersey. During these years, however, he remained active in the studio and developed a fruitful relationship with SteepleChase Records, which issued such well-received albums as 1989's Sienna, 1993's Angel Eyes, and 1997's Hear Me One.

More albums followed for the label, including 2010's Prayer for Peace, which featured the pianist's daughter Sunny Cowell on vocals. Two years later, he was joined by former Rutgers students bassist Tom Dicarlo and drummer Chris Brown on It's Time, followed by 2013's Welcome to This New World with the Empathlectrik Quartet and 2014's Are You Real? In 2017 he delivered his 15th album for SteepleChase, No Illusions, featuring saxophonist/flutist Bruce Williams, bassist Jay Anderson, and drummer Billy Drummond. Stanley Cowell died on December 17, 2020 in Dover, Delaware at the age of 79.

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