title: Musa: Ancestral Streams
text: # Musa: Ancestral Streams
  
  Musa: Ancestral Streams is a solo piano album by Stanley Cowell recorded in 1973 and first released on the Strata-East label.
  
  ## Reception
  
  Professional ratings :
  
  | Review scores ||
  | - | - |
  | Source | Rating |
  | AllMusic | |
  | The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | |
  
  In his review for AllMusic, Jason Ankeny states "Musa Ancestral Streams remains a relative oddity in the pantheon of jazz's black consciousness movement -- a solo piano set of stunning reach and scope, its adherence to intimacy contrasts sharply with the bold, multi-dimensional sensibilities that signify the vast majority of post-Coltrane excursions into spiritual expression, yet the sheer soulfulness and abandon of Stanley Cowell's performance nevertheless vaults the record into the same physical and metaphysical planes".
  
  ## Track listing
  
  All compositions by Stanley Cowell
  
  * "Abscretions" 5:10
  * "Equipoise" - 3:44
  * "Prayer for Peace" - 7:07
  * "Emil Danenberg" - 2:45
  * "Maimoun" - 6:30
  * "Travelin' Man" - 2:56
  * "Departure No. 1" - 5:25
  * "Departure No. 2" - 2:15
  * "Sweet Song" - 3:05
  
  ## Personnel
  
  * Stanley Cowell - piano, electric piano, kalimba
  