- Strata-East Records
Strata-East Records is an influential American
record label of jazz music, founded in 1971 byStanley Cowell andCharles Tolliver .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 most well-known recordings.The label released over 60 albums in the 1970s, several by prominent artists including
Clifford Jordan ,Pharoah Sanders , andShirley Scott . Bill Lee, father ofSpike Lee , was involved in numerous releases. Many of the label's releases, however obscure, are hailed as fine examples of 1970s Post-Bop, Spiritual Jazz, and Afro-Jazz.On the
Madlib album "Yesterdays Universe ", there is a tribute song to Strata-East, entitled "Two for Strata-East".Discography
*SES 1971 - Music Inc.
*SES 1972 -Charles Tolliver /Music Inc. - Live at Slugs Vol. 1
*SES 1972-0 -Charles Tolliver /Music Inc. - Live at Slugs Vol. 2
*SES 1972-1 -Clifford Jordan - In The World
*SES 1972-2 - Jazz Contemporaries - Reasons In Tonality
*SES 1972-3 - Composer's Workshop Ensemble
*SES 1972-4 - Mtume Umoja Ensemble - Alkebu-Lan: Land of The Blacks
*SES 19730 - The Piano Choir - Handscapes
*SES 19731 - Brother Ah - Sound Awareness
*SES 19732 -M'Boom - Re: Percussion
*SES 19733 -Pharoah Sanders - Izipho Zam (My Gifts)
*SES 19734 -Cecil Payne - Zodiac
*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
*SES-19740/1 -Charles Tolliver /Music Inc. - Live at the Loosdrecht Jazz Festival
*SES 19742 -Gil Scott-Heron /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 /Music Inc. - Live in Tokyo
*SES-19746 -Charlie Rouse - Two is One
*SES 19747 -Dick Griffin - The Eighth Wonder
*SES 19748 - TheJohn Betsch Society - Earth Blossom
*SES 19749 -Weldon Irvine - In Harmony
*SES 7410 -The Cosmic Twins - The Waterbearers
*SES 7411 -Muriel Winston - A Fresh Viewpoint and...
*SES 7412 -Shamek Farrah - First Impressions
*SES 7413 -Charles Sullivan - Genesis
*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
*SES 19752 - The Brass Company - Colors
*SES 19754 - Billy Parker's Fourth World - Freedom of Speech
*SES 19757 -Charles Tolliver /Music Inc. - Impact
*SES 19758 - Milton Marsh - Monism
*SES 19759 -Larry Ridley - Sum of the Parts
*SES 19760 -John Gordon - Step By Step
*SES 19761 -George Russell - Electronic Sonata For Souls Loved By Nature 1980
*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?
*SES 19771 -Shamek Farrah andSonelius Smith - The World of the Children
*SES 19772 -Bruce Johnson andRodney Jones - The Liberation of the Contemporary Jazz Guitar
*SES 19780 -John Gordon - Erotica Suite
*SES 8001 -Charles Tolliver - Compassion
*SES 8002 - John Hicks - Hell's Bells
*SES 8003 - The New York Bass Violin Choir
*Death Cube K -Dreamatorium (1994)External links
* [http://www.serecs.com/ Official site]
See also
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List of record labels
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