Handscapes (Remastered) The Piano Choir

• 1 Jaboobie's March 14:02
• 2 Straight, No Chaser 06:00
• 3 Precious Lord 05:10
• 4 Sanctum Saintorium 13:39
• 5 Nation Time 05:47
• 6 Effi 06:50
• 7 Man Extensions 31:07
• 8 The Almoravids 15:24
• 9 Killers 07:46
• Total Runtime 01:45:45

Info for Handscapes (Remastered)

"Handscapes" is a double live album by The Piano Choir featuring Stanley Cowell, Nat Jones, Hugh Lawson, Webster Lewis, Harold Mabern, Danny Mixon, and Sonelius Smith recorded in 1972.

At the time of release Ebony reviewer Phyl Garland said "One needn't be a "piano freak" to appreciate a truly new recording. First of all imagine seven gifted and talented pianists sitting down to seven grand pianos (with electric piano, organ, harpsichord, a few tambourines for spice) and proceeding to tear up these instruments - musically, that is. ...the torrrent of sound springing from their 70 fingers is so powerful and majestic as to be unlike anything one has ever heard." This album is a genre defying mix of deep, deep spiritual jazz with the addition of Steve Reich/Phillip Glass modernism! Heavy tracks like 'Nation Time' and more.

Stanley Cowell, piano, electric piano, vocals, percussion, African piano, harpsichord
Nat Jones, piano, electric piano, vocals, percussion, African piano, harpsichord
Hugh Lawson, piano, electric piano, vocals, percussion, African piano, harpsichord
Webster Lewis, piano, electric piano, vocals, percussion, African piano, harpsichord
Harold Mabern, piano, electric piano, vocals, percussion, African piano, harpsichord
Danny Mixon, piano, electric piano, vocals, percussion, African piano, harpsichord
Sonelius Smith, piano, electric piano, vocals, percussion, African piano, harpsichord

"Simply put, Handscapes – The Piano Choir is jazz at its best! Al of the Pure Pleasure qualities are there, including a balanced sound mix and top-notch hi-gloss gatefold packaging." (Robbie Gerson, Audiophile Audition)

Recorded on 28 October 1972, with the exception of ‘Precious Lord’ on 18 June 1972.

Digitally remastered

Stanley Cowell
(born May 5, 1941) is an American jazz pianist and co-founder of the Strata-East Records label. He played with Roland Kirk while studying at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and later with Marion Brown, Max Roach, Bobby Hutcherson, Clifford Jordan, Harold Land, Sonny Rollins and Stan Getz. Cowell played with trumpeter Charles Moore and others in the Detroit Artist's Workshop Jazz Ensemble in 1965-66. During the late 1980s Cowell was part of a regular quartet led by J.J. Johnson. Cowell teaches in the Music Department of the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.

This album contains no booklet.