An uncommercial island, Stanley Cowell and Charles Tolliver’s Strata East Records, stubbornly surrounded by increasingly commercial waters, making music to satisfy its core listening audience rather college boys and the bachelor demographic, who had moved on elsewhere.
Venturing further into the 1970’s, soul jazz and electric jazz rock fusion were not the only shows in town. Lurking in the shadows, spiritual jazz was defining an alternative direction, from the church of Strata East. Rough-hewn melodies, harmonies and dissonances in equal measure, a groove somewhere but not necessarily to the fore, instrumental virtuosity but the ensemble more important than the individual. A ’70s attitude combined with respect for the previous decade and its roots, it makes for unpredictable and interesting listening.

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- sti (lower-left) in original shrink ! - very nice condition !