Music Monday: Piano and Guitar

Spring break involved a bit less music than I had hoped, but still some wonderful sounds. 

For example, I’ve been really enjoying some solo piano from Stanley Cowell, particularly his Musa: Ancestral Streams (1974)

Cowell’s Equipoise (1978) features Cecil McBee on bass and Roy Haynes on drums:

This drove me somehow to Jaki Byard’s Sunshine of my Soul from 1967 with David Izenzon on bass and Elvin Jones on drums. I never cease to be amazed by the range of Jaki Byard. 

I’ve enjoyed the latest Sun Ra release, Uncharted Passages (2025). This version of “Sometimes I Feel like a Motherless Child” is classic Sun Ra:

Along similar lines, the new release of an Emily Remler recording from Las Vegas in 1984 and 1988 called Cookin’ at the Queens. Check out this version of “Moanin’” which 

And “Autumn Leaves”: