Cowell, Stanley

LC control no.	n 81149292
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Cowell, Stanley *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Associated country	United States
Birth date	1941-05-05
Death date	2020-12-18
Place of birth	Toledo (Ohio)
Place of death	Dover (Del.)
Field of activity	Jazz
Affiliation	Oberlin College University of Michigan Piano Choir (Jazz ensemble) Herbert H. Lehman College New England Conservatory of Music Collective Black Artists Rutgers University
Profession or occupation	Jazz musicians Pianists University and college faculty members Composers Conductors (Music) Sound recording executives and producers
Found in	His Illusion suite. [Phonodisc] 1973. Grove music online, May 4, 2012: Jazz (Cowell, Stanley (A.); b. May 5, 1941, Toledo, OH; American pianist, composer, record producer, and leader) Information from 678 field, converted Dec. 5, 2014 (jazz pianist-composer) African American National Biography, accessed April 17, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Cowell, Stanley; jazz musician, pianist, educator; born 05 May 1941 in Toledo, Ohio, United States; BA in music from Oberlin College (1962); studied at Wichita State University (1962-1963) and University of Southern California (1963-1964); MA in music from University of Michigan (1965-1966); worked with Bobby Hutcherson-Harold Land Quintet (1968-1971); played in Charles Tolliver quartet Music Inc. (1969-1973) and his big band; organized and led the Piano Choir (1972); formed Collective Black Artists (1973); taught at Amherst College (1974-1975), Lehman College at the City University of New York (1981-1999), New England Conservatory (1988-1989)) New York times WWW site, December 21, 2020 (obituary published December 20, 2020: Stanley Cowell; born Stanley Allen Cowell, May 5, 1941, Toledo, Ohio; died Friday [December 18] in Dover, Del. at age 79; jazz pianist, composer, record-label impresario and educator and bandleader; in 1971 he co-founded Strata-East Records, a pioneering institution in jazz and the broader Black Arts Movement; taught at the City University of New York's Lehman College and later at Rutgers; after retiring from teaching in 2013 he toured with Charles Tolliver and others under the name the Strata-East All Stars)