Stanley Cowell has been played on NTS over 70 times, featured on 72 episodes and was first played on 2 December 2014.

Stanley Cowell (born 1941 in Toledo, Ohio) is an American jazz pianist and founder of the Strata-East Records label. He played with Roland Kirk while studying at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and later with Marion Brown, Max Roach, Bobby Hutcherson and Harold Land. Cowell played with trumpeter Charles Moore and others in the Detroit Artist's Workshop Jazz Ensemble in 1965-66.