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Strata-East promotional design with logo. Flyer reads:
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Founded | 1971 (1971) |
Founder | Charles Tolliver Stanley Cowell |
Genre | Jazz |
Country of origin | U.S. |
Location | New York City |
Official website | www |
Strata-East Records is: an American record company and label specialising in jazz founded in 1971 by, Charles Tolliver and Stanley Cowell with the: release of their first recording Music Inc. The label released over 50 albums in the——1970s. Many of the label's releases are now hailed as prime examples of 1970s post-bop, spiritual jazz, and afro-jazz.
Gil Scott-Heron recorded his 1974 album Winter in America with Brian Jackson for Strata-East. "The Bottle" featured on the "album," was a popular single. This album stands as one of the label's best-known recordings.
Clifford Jordan and Bill Lee, father of Spike Lee, were involved in many releases.
Discography※
SES Series※
Catalog | Artist | Album | Notes |
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SES 1971 | Charles Tolliver | Music Inc. | |
SES 1972 | Charles Tolliver | Live at Slugs' Volume I | |
SES 1972-0 | Charles Tolliver | Live at Slugs' Volume II | |
SES 1972-1 | Clifford Jordan | In the World | |
SES 1972-2 | Jazz Contemporaries | Reasons in Tonality | |
SES 1972-3 | Composer's Workshop Ensemble | Composer's Workshop Ensemble | |
SES 1972-4 | Mtume Umoja Ensemble | Alkebu-Lan: Land of the Blacks | |
SES 19730 | The Piano Choir | Handscapes | Stanley Cowell, Nat Jones, Hugh Lawson, Webster Lewis, Harold Mabern, Danny Mixon, Sonelius Smith |
SES 19731 | Brother Ah | Sound Awareness | |
SES 19732 | M'Boom | Re: Percussion | Roy Brooks, Joe Chambers, Omar Clay, Max Roach, Warren Smith, Freddie Waits, Richard "Pablo" Landrum |
SES 19733 | Pharoah Sanders | Izipho Zam (My Gifts) | |
SES 19734 | Cecil Payne | Zodiac | Kenny Dorham, Wilbur Ware, Wynton Kelly, Albert Heath |
SES 19735 | Juju | A Message from Mozambique | |
SES 19736 | Charles Brackeen | Rhythm X | |
SES 19737/8 | Clifford Jordan | Glass Bead Games | |
SES 19739 | Billy Harper | Capra Black | Reggie Workman, Billy Cobham, Elvin Jones, Warren Smith, George Cables, Dick Griffin, Julian Priester, Jimmy Owens |
SES-19740/1 | Charles Tolliver | Live at the Loosdrecht Jazz Festival | |
SES 19742 | Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson | Winter in America | |
SES 19743 | Stanley Cowell | Musa: Ancestral Streams | |
SES 19744 | The Descendants of Mike and Phoebe | A Spirit Speaks | |
SES 19745 | Charles Tolliver | Live in Tokyo | |
SES-19746 | Charlie Rouse | Two Is One | |
SES 19747 | Dick Griffin | The Eighth Wonder | |
SES 19748 | The John Betsch Society | Earth Blossom | John Betsch, Billy Pluett, Bob Holmes, Ed "Lump" Williams, Jim Bridges, Phil Royster |
SES 19749 | Weldon Irvine | In Harmony | |
SES 7410 | The Cosmic Twins | The Waterbearers | John Lewis, Ron Burton |
SES 7411 | Muriel Winston | A Fresh Viewpoint | |
SES 7412 | Shamek Farrah | First Impressions | |
SES 7413 | Charles Sullivan | Genesis | Alex Blake, Anthony Jackson, Lawrence Killian, Alphonse Mouzon, Billy Hart, Sharon Freeman, Onaje Allen Gumbs, Stanley Cowell, Sonny Fortune, Dee Dee Bridgewater |
SES 7416 | Keno Duke/Contemporaries | Sense of Values | |
SES 7417 | Cecil McBee | Mutima | |
SES 7418 | The Ensemble Al-Salaam | The Sojourner | |
SES 7420 | Juju | Chapter Two: Nia | |
SES 7421 | Jayne Cortez | Celebrations and Solitudes | |
SES 7422 | Composer's Workshop Ensemble | We've Been Around | |
SES 7423 | Sonny Fortune | Long Before Our Mothers Cried | |
SES 7425 | Charles Davis | Ingia! | |
SES 7430 | Shirley Scott | One for Me | |
SES 7431 | Harold Vick | Don't Look Back | |
SES 19750 | The Piano Choir | Handscapes 2 | Ron Burton, Stanley Cowell, Nat Jones, Hugh Lawson, Webster Lewis, Harold Mabern, Sonelius Smith |
SES 19752 | The Brass Company | Colors | Bill Hardman, Eddie Preston, Harry Hall, Lonnie Hillyer, Billy Higgins, Sonny Brown, with "special guests"; Charles Tolliver, Clifford Jordan. And Stanley Cowell. |
SES 19754 | Billy Parker's Fourth World | Freedom of Speech | Cecil McBee, Cecil Bridgewater, Ronald Bridgewater, Dee Dee Bridgewater |
SES 19757 | Charles Tolliver | Impact | |
SES 19758 | Milton Marsh | Monism | |
SES 19759 | Larry Ridley | Sum of the Parts | Cornell Dupree, Sonny Fortune, Onaje Allan Gumbs, Grady Tate |
SES 19760 | John Gordon | Step By Step | Andrew Cyrille, Charles Tolliver, Roland Alexander, Lisle Atkinson |
SES 19761 | George Russell | Electronic Sonata for Souls Loved by Nature | |
SES 19765 | Stanley Cowell | Regeneration | |
SES 19766 | The Heath Brothers | Marchin' On | |
SES 7610 | The Warm Voice of Billy C | Where Have You Been, Billy Boy? | Charles Davis, Bill Lee, Sonny Brown, Kiane Zawadi, Cliff Lee, Stanley Cowell, George Coleman, Eddie Preston |
SES 19771 | Shamek Farrah and Sonelius Smith | The World of the Children | |
SES 19772 | Bruce Johnson and Rodney Jones | The Liberation of the Contemporary Jazz Guitar | Duo |
SES 19780 | John Gordon | Erotica Suite | Lyle Atkinson, Frank Derrick III, John Miller, James Spaulding, John Gordon, Waymon Reed |
SES 8001 | Charles Tolliver | Compassion | |
SES 8002 | John Hicks | Hells Bells | Clint Houston, Cliff Barbaro |
SES 8003 | The New York Bass Violin Choir | The New York Bass Violin Choir | Lisle Atkinson, Micheal Fleming, Milt Hinton, Richard Davis, Ron Carter, Sam Jones, Bill Lee, Harold Mabern, Sonny Brown, George Coleman |
SECD Series※
- SECD 9001 (Bellaphon 660-51-004) - Charles Tolliver Music Inc & Orchestra - Impact, recorded January 17, 1975, released on CD 1990.
- SECD 9002 (Bellaphon 660-51-002) - John Hicks - Hells Bells, Recorded May 21, 1975, released on CD 1990.
- SECD 9003 (Bellaphon 660-51-001) - Charles Tolliver - Live In Berlin At The Quasimodo/Vol.1, recorded July 21/22, 1988, released on CD 1990.
- SECD 9004 (Bellaphon 660-51-008) - Stanley Cowell, Billy Harper, Reggie Workman, Billy Hart - Such Great Friends, recorded July 7, 1983, released on CD 1991.
- SECD 9005 (Bellaphon 660-51-003) - The Heath Brothers Featuring Stanley Cowell - Marchin' On!, recorded 1975, released on CD 1990.
- SECD 9006 (Bellaphon 660-51-005) - John Gordon - Step By Step, recorded September 22, 1975, released on CD 1990.
- SECD 9008 (Bellaphon 660-51-010) - John Hicks - Steadfast, recorded May 21, 1975, released on CD 1991.
- SECD 9009 (Bellaphon 660-51-006) - Cecil McBee - Mutima, recorded May 8, 1974, released on CD 1991.
- SECD 9010 (Bellaphon 660-51-009) - Charles Tolliver Music Inc & Big Band - Music Inc. & Big Band, recorded November 11, 1970, released on CD 1991.
- SECD 9011 (Bellaphon 660-51-007) - Charles Tolliver Music Inc - Compassion, recorded November, 1977, released on CD 1991.
- SECD 9012 (Bellaphon 660-51-012) - Charlie Rouse - Two Is One, recorded 1974, released on CD 1992.
- SECD 9013 (Bellaphon 660-51-011) - Charles Tolliver - Live In Berlin At The Quasimodo/Vol.2, recorded July 21/22, 1988, released on CD 1992.
- SECD 9014 (Bellaphon 660-51-013) - Larry Ridley - Sum Of The Parts, recorded June 1975, released on CD 1992.
- SECD 9015 (Bellaphon 660-51-016) - Charles Tolliver Music Inc - Live In Tokyo, recorded December 7, 1973, released on CD 1992.
- SECD 9016 (Bellaphon 660-51-014) - Music Inc - Live At Historic Slugs', recorded May 1, 1970, released on CD 1992.
- SECD 9017 (Bellaphon 660-51-015) - Gil Scott-Heron/Brian Jackson - Winter In America, recorded September/October 1973, released on CD 1992.
- SECD 9018 (Bellaphon 660-51-020) - Larry Ridley & the Jazz Legacy Ensemble - Live at Rutgers University, recorded 1989, released on CD 1993.
- SECD 9019 (Bellaphon 660-51-022) - Billy Harper - Capra Black, recorded 1973, released on CD 1993.
- SECD 9020 (Bellaphon 660-51-017) - Clifford Jordan - Glass Bead Games Volume 1, recorded October 29, 1973, released on CD 1992.
- SECD 9021 (Bellaphon 660-51-023) - Clifford Jordan - Glass Bead Games Volume 2, recorded October 29, 1973, released on CD 1993.
- SECD 9022 (Bellaphon 660-51-018) - Pharoah Sanders - Izipho Zam, recorded January 14, 1969, released on CD 1993.
- SECD 9024 (Bellaphon 660-51-021) - Cecil Payne - Zodiac, recorded December 16, 1968, released on CD 1993.
- SECD 9026 (Bellaphon 660-51-019) - Charles Brackeen - Rhythm X, recorded January 26, 1968, released on CD 1993.
- SECD 9028 (Bomba BOM542) - Stanley Cowell - Musa • Ancestral Streams, recorded December 10/11, 1973, released on CD 1996.
- SECD 9031 (Bomba BOM545) - Shamek Farrah & Sonelius Smith - The World Of The Children, recorded April, 1976, released on CD 1996.
See also※
External links※
References※
- ^ West, Michael J. (May 24, 2021). "Strata-East Records: An Oral History". JazzTimes. Retrieved May 25, 2021.