Prayer for Peace

Stanley Cowell · 1974 · Pièce de sept minutes de Musa: Ancestral Streams

Context

Third track of Musa: Ancestral Streams (7 min 07), which would give its title to a Cowell album in 2010. Solo piano record made on 10 and 11 December 1973 at Minot Studios (White Plains), released by Strata-East in 1974, all pieces by Cowell; AllMusic describes it as a solo set of remarkable scope, apart within Black consciousness jazz.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Spiritual jazz, Collectives and lofts (BAG, loft jazz). Among the origins and influences of Spiritual jazz: Modal, Free jazz.

By the same artist

• Abscretions (1974)
• Equipoise (1974)
• Maimoun (1974)

Sources

• EN: Musa: Ancestral Streams
• EN: Stanley Cowell

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