Setup (album)

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Setup
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Studio album by
Released1994
RecordedOctober 1993
Genre Jazz
Length59:46
Label SteepleChase SCCD 31349
Producer Nils Winther
Stanley Cowell chronology
Live at Copenhagen Jazz House
(1993)
Setup
(1994)
Mandara Blossoms
(1995)

Setup is an album by Stanley Cowell with a sextet recorded in 1993 and first released on the historically important Danish SteepleChase label in 1994. [1] [2]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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AllMusic said the album was "especially noteworthy, for Cowell is a gifted, if underrated, composer. Cowell's talents as a composer are illustrated by memorable post-bop or hard bop pieces". [4]

Track listing

All compositions by Stanley Cowell

  1. "Departure" - 11:03
  2. "Setup" - 7:11
  3. "Varions" - 6:29
  4. "Bright Passion" - 7:12
  5. "Bip Bip Bam" - 9:18
  6. "Sendai Sendoff" - 10:03
  7. "Carnegie Six" - 8:30

Personnel

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References

  1. Stanley Cowell discography accessed April 7, 2015.
  2. Stanley Cowell catalog accessed April 7, 2015.
  3. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 314. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  4. Henderson, Alex. Setup – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved April 7, 2015.