Strata-East Records

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Strata-East Records was an influential American record label of jazz music, founded in 1971 by Stanley Cowell and Charles 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, and Shirley Scott. Bill Lee, father of Spike 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".

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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 - The John 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 and Sonelius Smith - The World of the Children
SES 19772 - Bruce Johnson and Rodney 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