looked up stanley cowell online a couple times and wrote him to thank him for the lesson when i was 14 and he came through winnipeg with percy heath and the greatest drummer i ever saw up until that age, freddie waits. he never wrote back. i don’t know if he got the email. felt very grateful for meeting an actual monster. very tall piano monster and biggest hands of all time. nothing about him condescending or impatient with the 6 or 7 little winnipegers in the wag theatre, crowded around a grand piano, telling us how folks where he lived, new york or philadelphia, were trying to have an independent left hand. reading his yesterday obituary, no surprise all the surreal accomplishments of this surreal player. even a record with stanley clarke pre-career taking off. must find it.