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STANLEY COWELL - REGENERATION - PURE PLEASURE VINYL

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Deluxe gatefold 180g vinyl reissue!

Re-mastering by: Ray Staff at Air Mastering, Lyndhurst Hall, London

Around the time of this recording, Stanley Cowell had achieved a degree of prominence as the pianist for the advanced bop quartet Music Inc., which he co-led with trumpeter Charles Tolliver, as well as for unusual projects like his Piano Choir.

With Regeneration he chose another path, essentially trying to produce a jazz-infused pop album with strong African roots, perhaps owing a little bit to Stevie Wonder. He assembled an extremely strong cast of musicians for the venture, including Marion Brown, Billy Higgins, and Ed Blackwell, as well as several African string and percussion masters and, by and large, succeeded conceptually if not commercially.

A few songs use vocals in a fairly standard pop framework, and, while they are performed capably enough, the lyrical content leaves something to be desired in typical mid-'70s fashion. But much of the rest of the music makes up for this with, among other things, a delightful fife and drum piece by Brown and strong bass work by Bill Lee (Spike's dad). Regeneration is an interesting, often enjoyable album which, aside from its own small pleasures, provides a snapshot of some of the cross-fertilization in genres occurring at the time. Brian Olewnick/AMG

Review: HI-FI Choice Magazine, by Jason Kennedy April issue Hot Pick 5****

This Album is credited to the amazing keyboard-playing multi-instrumentalist Cowell, but that's mainly because he corralled a remarkable selection of musicians into the studio with him. The result is very much a group effort with tunes written by percussionist Billy Higgins, flute maestro Marion Brown and, though he doesn't feature, John McLaughlin. Contributors include percussionist Ed Blackwell, Bill Lee on acoustic bass and Jimmy Heath on Flute.

There are both wooden and conventional flutes alongside a range of wooden percussion instruments including mbira (thumb piano), gembhre (usually spelled guembri), which is a three-stringed, skin -coloured bass flute. The sounds are very earthy and natural, which when combined with jazz and blues tunes plus vocals on a couple of tracks makes for a lovely sounding album. You don't often hear this sort of rootsy jazz it was briefly fashionable thanks to Pharoah Sanders and Stevie Wonder in an age before 'World Music' was so broad, but may that makes it all the more enjoyable today.

Sound quality is open, natural and while it's seven tracks are over too soon, they are all gems. JK

Tracklisting

Side A: 1. Trying to Find A Way: Acoustic Guitar – Jerry Venable /Drums [Bass] – Aleke Kanonu/ Drums [Snare], Cymbal [Ride] – Billy Higgins /Percussion [Water Drum] – Ed Blackwell /Piano, Synthesizer – Stanley Cowell /Vocals – Charles Fowlkes*, Glenda Barnes

2. The Gembhre: Bass – Bill Lee (2) /Kora – Stanley Cowell /Other [Mama-lekimbe], Percussion – Nadi Quamar

3. Shimmy Shewabble: Drums [Bass] – Aleke Kanonu /Drums [Parade] – Ed

Blackwell /Drums [Snare] – Billy Higgins

4. Parlour Blues: Harmonica – Psyche Wanzandae /Piano – Stanley Cowell

Side B: 1. Thank You My People: Bass [Electric] – Charles Fowlkes* /Flute – Psyche Wanzandae /Kora – Stanley Cowell /Overtone Voice [Ibo Chanting] – Aleke Kanonu /Percussion – Billy Higgins, Ed Blackwell /Saxophone [Soprano] – Jimmy Heath /Vocals – Kareema (2) /Wind [Zuna] – John Stubblefield

2. Travelin' Man: Flute – Jimmy Heath /Flute [Wooden] – Marion Brown /

Kalimba [Mbira] – Stanley Cowell /Percussion – Billy Higgins /Vocals – Charles Fowlkes*, Kareema (2)

3. Lullabye: Double Bass – Bill Lee (2) /Flute [Alto] – Jimmy Heath /Harp [Madagascan Harp] – Nadi Quamar* /Kora – Stanley Cowell /Other [Gembhre] – Billy Higgins /Vocals – Charles Fowlkes*, Kareema (2)

Recorded at Minot Sound Studios, White Plains, April 27, 1975. Mastered at Generation Sound, N.Y.C.

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