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 and first released on the Strata-East label.[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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AllMusic[2]

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 torrent of sound springing from their 70 fingers is so powerful and majestic as to be unlike anything one has ever heard."[3] In his review for AllMusic, Michael G. Nastos simply states "Brilliant".[2]

Track listing

Side A:

  1. "Jaboobie's March" (Hugh Lawson) – 13:40
  2. "Straight, No Chaser" (Thelonious Monk) – 6:00
  3. "Precious Lord" (Thomas A. Dorsey) – 4:50

Side B:

  1. "Sanctum Saintorium" (Sonelius Smith) – 13:40
  2. "Nation Time" (Webster Lewis) – 5:40
  3. "Effi" (Stanley Cowell) – 6:50

Side C:

  1. "Man Extensions" (Danny Mixon) – 31:25

Side D:

  1. "The Almoravids" (Joe Chambers) – 15:40
  2. "Killers" (Stanley Cowell) – 7:30

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Stanley Cowell discography accessed January 20, 2015
  2. ^ a b Nastos, Michael G.. Handscapes – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved January 20, 2015.
  3. ^ Garland, P., Ebony magazine review, June 1973
Allikas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handscapes
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