{"id":1808,"date":"2020-12-18T15:19:22","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T15:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/mgsa-jazz\/?p=1808"},"modified":"2020-12-18T15:20:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T15:20:45","slug":"the-loss-of-professor-stanley-cowell-at-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/mgsa-jazz\/the-loss-of-professor-stanley-cowell-at-79\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memory of Professor Stanley Cowell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stanley Cowell, a pianist, composer and educator who demonstrated a vast range of possibilities for jazz over the last 50 years, died on Thursday at Bayhealth Hospital in Dover, Del. He was 79.\u00a0Cowell was born in Toledo, Ohio on May 5, 1941, into a family of amateur music enthusiasts. \u201cMy father played street-corner violin with some preachers when he was very young,\u201d he told Marian McPartland in a 1999 episode of Piano Jazz. \u201cHe was a businessman, and he built the first motel in the city limits of Toledo, Ohio. And all the musicians that would come to town, I would meet, because in those days especially because of segregation or choice, they would stay in the Black community. So I would meet all the musicians who came through.\u201d <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbgo.org\/post\/stanley-cowell-pianist-composer-and-educator-kaleidoscopic-view-jazz-dead-79#stream\/0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more on wbgo.org<\/a> &#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stanley Cowell, a pianist, composer and educator who demonstrated a vast range of possibilities for jazz over the last 50 years, died on Thursday at Bayhealth Hospital in Dover, Del. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/mgsa-jazz\/the-loss-of-professor-stanley-cowell-at-79\/\" class=\"\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":393,"featured_media":1810,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>In Memory of Professor Stanley Cowell - Jazz Studies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/mgsa-jazz\/the-loss-of-professor-stanley-cowell-at-79\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"In Memory of Professor Stanley Cowell - Jazz Studies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Stanley Cowell, a pianist, composer and educator who demonstrated a vast range of possibilities for jazz over the last 50 years, died on Thursday at Bayhealth Hospital in Dover, Del. &hellip; 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