| Musa: Ancestral Streams | ||||
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| Released | 1974 | |||
| Recorded | December 10 & 11, 1973 at Minot Studios, White Plains, New York | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 38:04 | |||
| Label | Strata-East SES-19743 | |||
| Producer | Stanley Cowell and Viki McLaughlin | |||
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Musa: Ancestral Streams is a solo piano album by Stanley Cowell, recorded in 1973 and first released on the Strata-East label. [1]
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | [3] |
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". [2]
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