tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240093092024-03-13T05:07:48.851+01:00bjazzThis blog, started in 2006, is now updated (December 2010).
At this time, it is only devoted to Horace Tapscott, the U.G.M.A.A.gers and Nimbus West Records.
This is a work in progress, more to come...bertrandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04478921099297575752noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24009309.post-37915562021161515322010-02-14T23:36:00.033+01:002019-07-31T08:16:45.374+02:00Index<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: 100%;">• <a href="http://bjazz.blogspot.com/2006/03/horace-tapscott-biographie.html" target="blank"">Horace Tapscott: Biography (<span style="font-style: italic;">in French</span>)</a><br />• <a href="https://bjazz.blogspot.com/2010/02/horace-tapscott-discography-leader.html" target="blank"">Horace Tapscott Discography (Leader)</a></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: 100%;"> - <span style="color: rgb(204 , 0 , 0); font-weight: bold;">UPDATE</span><br />• </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://bjazz.blogspot.com/2006/03/horace-tapscott-discographie-en.html" target="blank"">Horace Tapscott Discography (Sideman)</a></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: 100%;"><br />• <a href="http://bjazz.blogspot.com/2010/02/horace-tapscott-discography.html" target="blank"">Horace Tapscott Discography (Audience/FM/Soundboard/Video Recordings)</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: 100%;">• <a href="http://bjazz.blogspot.com/2006/04/horace-tapscott-et-nimbus-discographie.html" target="blank"">Nimbus Records: Label's Discography</a></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: 100%;"> - <span style="color: rgb(204 , 0 , 0); font-weight: bold;">UPDATE</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: 100%;">• <a href="http://bjazz.blogspot.com/2006/04/horace-tapscott-et-steven-l-isoardi.html" target="blank"">Horace Tapscott / Steven L. Isoardi: The Dark Tree - Jazz and the Community Arts in Los Angeles (<span style="font-style: italic;">in French</span>)</a><br />• <a href="http://bjazz.blogspot.com/2006/04/horace-tapscott-et-lugmaa-photos.html" target="blank"">Horace Tapscott & the U.G.M.A.A.gers: Photos</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: 100%;">• <a href="http://bjazz.blogspot.com/2010/02/horace-tapscott-by-david-keller.html" target="blank"">Horace Tapscott by David Keller (JazzTimes, october 1982)</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: 100%;">• <a href="http://bjazz.blogspot.com/2006/03/horace-tapscott-interview_31.html" target="blank"">Horace Tapscott: Interview by Jason Weiss (Jazz Magazine, september 1983) (<span style="font-style: italic;">in French</span>)</a><br />• <a href="http://bjazz.blogspot.com/2010/12/horace-tapscott-interview-by-elaine_15.html" target="blank"">Horace Tapscott: Interview by Elaine Cohen - Part One (Cadence, july 1984)</a></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: 100%;"> - <span style="color: rgb(255 , 102 , 0); font-weight: bold;">NEW!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: 100%;">• <a href="http://bjazz.blogspot.com/2010/12/horace-tapscott-interview-by-elaine_9157.html" target="blank"">Horace Tapscott: Interview by Elaine Cohen - Part Two (Cadence, august 1984)</a></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: 100%;"> - <span style="color: rgb(255 , 102 , 0); font-weight: bold;">NEW!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: 100%;">• </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://bjazz.blogspot.com/2006/03/horace-tapscott-interview.html" target="blank"">Horace Tapscott: Interview by Serge Baudot (Jazz Hot, march 1998) (<span style="font-style: italic;">in French</span>)</a><br />• <a href="http://bjazz.blogspot.com/2010/02/horace-tapscott-by-serge-baudot.html" target="blank"">Horace Tapscott by Serge Baudot (Jazz Hot, april 1999) (<span style="font-style: italic;">in French</span>)</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: 100%;">• <a href="http://bjazz.blogspot.com/2010/02/horace-tapscott-by-andy-thomas_23.html" target="blank"">Horace Tapscott by Andy Thomas (Wax Poetics, 2009)</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: 100%;">• <a href="http://bjazz.blogspot.com/2010/02/nimbus-ugmaagers-horace-tapscott.html" target="blank"">Nimbus / U.G.M.A.A.gers / Horace Tapscott by Alexandre Pierrepont (ImproJazz, march 2002) (<span style="font-style: italic;">in French</span>)</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://bjazz.blogspot.com/2010/02/nimbus-ugmaagers-horace-tapscott.html" target="blank""><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-weight: bold;"></span></a><br /></span>bertrandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04478921099297575752noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24009309.post-1142593421407958182010-02-14T23:34:00.010+01:002010-03-08T13:28:35.208+01:00Horace Tapscott: Biography<span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:180%;" ><strong><br /></strong></span><div style="text-align: right; font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://bjazz.blogspot.com/2010/02/this-blog-which-has-been-started-in.html" target="blank""><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">-> INDEX</span><br /></a></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:180%;" ><strong><br />Horace Tapscott, <span style="font-size:78%;">1934-1999</span></strong></span><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);font-size:100%;" >"Our music is contributive</span></em><em><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);font-size:100%;" >, rather than competitive"</span></em></div><div align="justify"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNa1uvSfYuHjGcs_X7xI8fb_gCfcH8CoX7E1AIhs8YSuPmo_MaomviIdo56nKDHHtMMZsk1-UDul2S6wQxdbPId_rpgVBG28JufUadMHTOivGl2PlPnGzxcLVM34ixUoLNnQ88QQ/s1600-h/horace_the-giant-is-awaken2.1'.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 76px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNa1uvSfYuHjGcs_X7xI8fb_gCfcH8CoX7E1AIhs8YSuPmo_MaomviIdo56nKDHHtMMZsk1-UDul2S6wQxdbPId_rpgVBG28JufUadMHTOivGl2PlPnGzxcLVM34ixUoLNnQ88QQ/s400/horace_the-giant-is-awaken2.1'.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439760162394723922" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">C’est lors d’</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">un concert au festival du Fort Napoléon à la Seyne-sur-Mer en</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> août 1995 que j’ai découvert le pianiste Horace Tapscott. A vrai dire, ce n’était pas pour lui que je m</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">’étais rendu à ce concert, mais</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> pour écouter le saxophoniste Sonny Simmons qui venait de réapparaître après une dizaine d’année</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">s de silence et avec qui il co-dirigeait un quartet pour cette tournée.<br />Etait-ce prévu ou ét</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ait-ce dû au degré d’éthylisme de Sonny Simmons ? Le fait est que ce soir-là, c’est Tapscott </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">qui débute et qui fera une grande partie du concert en trio accompagné par le contrebassiste James L</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ewis et John Betsch à la batterie.<br />Ce fut une grande découverte qui allait se transformer par la suite en v</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">éritable passion pour ce musicien "meneur d’hommes", tellement impliqué dans la vie de sa "commu</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">nauté" qu’il ne fut connu du "grand public" qu’à la fin de sa vie…<br />Voici donc, avec </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">la seule prétention d’une sérieuse biblio/discographie, les grandes lignes de la vie d’Horace Tapscott.<br />Cette <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">biographie e</span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">st complétée d’une discographie et de deux interviews et sera suivie prochainement d’autres informations…</span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /></span><br /><br /></div><div align="justify"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhszbiut1STdFejryJI37CNXW4IS8ud8ooj68pIH-qa3-lFz83iMxYVBwJevawosKAPP0mhOUPChEUZiogsCy4ukd7Md425NvvOD3-NKKeBqu45CGXSXDma8a60XT0TpDKqb3Y0Vw/s1600-h/horace_clope'.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 155px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhszbiut1STdFejryJI37CNXW4IS8ud8ooj68pIH-qa3-lFz83iMxYVBwJevawosKAPP0mhOUPChEUZiogsCy4ukd7Md425NvvOD3-NKKeBqu45CGXSXDma8a60XT0TpDKqb3Y0Vw/s200/horace_clope'.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439764405489637938" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Né le </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">6 avril 1934 à Houston au Texas, Horace Tapscott est le fils de Mary Lou Malone, pianiste qui dirigeait son pr</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">opre groupe de jazz. Il grandi</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">t donc bercé par le blues, le boogie-w</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">oogie et les spirituals entendus à l'église.<br /><br />A neuf ans, sa famille quitte le Texas pour s'installer en Californie à Los Angeles. A peine débarqué du train, sa mèr</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">e se rend sur Central Aven</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ue a</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">fin de présenter Horace à Harry Southard qui deviendra son professeur de trombone. En effet, en plus des cours de piano que lui donne Mary </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Lou, Horace pratique aussi le trombone et le tuba, deux instruments qu'il considère comme étant plus "virils".</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHsUxD0RiyCjjzpaY5voaCPHHBfxYPXvF3ftrRBBR1KNcYAaUgSRgGdA9wKfb3uRGVJNBDgMhtgUM3baGJ3aViDtyzpi-rdX2LxMJbXw5_kpRfBEsOCpGoGoItr14tWN-_LSUowA/s1600-h/horace-trombone.0'.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 142px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHsUxD0RiyCjjzpaY5voaCPHHBfxYPXvF3ftrRBBR1KNcYAaUgSRgGdA9wKfb3uRGVJNBDgMhtgUM3baGJ3aViDtyzpi-rdX2LxMJbXw5_kpRfBEsOCpGoGoItr14tWN-_LSUowA/s200/horace-trombone.0'.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439764714805229394" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">En 1948, il intègre la Jefferson High School où il suit les cours du Docteur Samuel R. Browne et où, au sein de l'orchestre, il côtoie entre autre Don Cherry, Sonny Criss, Frank Mo</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">rgan</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">, Eric Dolphy… Il se consacre alors essentiellement à l'étude du trombone et l'année suivante, le pianiste Monroe </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Tucker lui offre son premier engagement dans un club sur Central Avenue, l'équivalent de la 52nd rue à New York, où il se rend régulièrement pour écouter Art Tatum, Charlie Parker…<br />En 1950, en compagnie </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">d'Eric Dolphy, il intègre le big band de Gérard Wilson et, deux ans plus tard, passe son diplôme malgré un accident de voiture qui lui rendra difficile le jeu du trombone.</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEias9l_64GyoSa29_aRXnvZ8B8joy0fChd_RD8EOd15XcLgZMJEs0S95-O_v04AiOjsZVS9ka7hVGhtvCI5_GRNs-E_UHEuKHgBSGGCfypIGQqVK59hlyh7OEDoo0NdI2mgI-lKLQ/s1600-h/horace-wyoming'.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 160px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEias9l_64GyoSa29_aRXnvZ8B8joy0fChd_RD8EOd15XcLgZMJEs0S95-O_v04AiOjsZVS9ka7hVGhtvCI5_GRNs-E_UHEuKHgBSGGCfypIGQqVK59hlyh7OEDoo0NdI2mgI-lKLQ/s200/horace-wyoming'.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439764852187096706" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">De 1953 à 1</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">957, Tapscott intègre l'orchestr</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">e de l'Armée de l'Air et il est envoyé à la Fort Warren Air Force Base de Cheyenne dans le Wyoming. C'est à cette époque qu'il abandonne le trombone pour le piano et forme son premier groupe The Nu-Tones avec le saxophoniste Robbie Robertson, le contr</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ebassiste Herbert Baker et le batteur Billy James.<br />Son service militaire achevé, il retourne à Los Angeles et ressort son trombone une dernière fois pour s'engager </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">dans l'orchestre d</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">e Lionel Hampton avec lequel il sillonnera les Etats-Unis. Mais au début de l'année 1961, après un concert, il décide de ne pas re</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">monter dans le car et quitte l'orchestre. "<em>Je voulais faire autre chose. Je voulais faire mon propre truc, écrire et aider à préserver la musique. C'est à cette période que j'ai commencé à penser à former l'Arkestra pour préserver la Black Music. Je voulais préserver, enseigner, montrer et jouer la musique des noirs américains ainsi que la musique panafricaine à notre communauté. Tout le propos était là : faire partie de la communauté. Ce sont les raisons pour</em></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em> lesquelles j'ai quitté l'orchestre d'Ha</em></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>mpton ce soir là.</em>"<br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSHZqQGiQ2Y7M1w-LTJmy7u60KT1n0ziCL9yYGbL-YPsqi2SafCNiof46jSENZ_bZpna8rFJjyG5319yB5-Zt8aAOLduh2MNB7eUJPsP-D2qgidCHV1DkRuD41fsp8Jcut5KGI7w/s1600-h/horace_poster3'.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 149px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSHZqQGiQ2Y7M1w-LTJmy7u60KT1n0ziCL9yYGbL-YPsqi2SafCNiof46jSENZ_bZpna8rFJjyG5319yB5-Zt8aAOLduh2MNB7eUJPsP-D2qgidCHV1DkRuD41fsp8Jcut5KGI7w/s200/horace_poster3'.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439765116184512706" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">C'est ainsi qu'en 1961, de retour à Los Angeles, il se consacre dorénavant uniquement au piano, il forme dans le q</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">uartier de Watts, le <em>Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra</em>, un orchestre dont le but est de préserver et de développer la <em>Black culture</em> dans la communauté. Les</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> premiers membres en sont la pianiste Linda Hill, le tromboniste Lester Robertson, les contrebassis</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">tes David Bryant et Alan Hines et les saxophonistes Jimmy Woods et Guido Sinclair. La même année est </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">créée l'U.G.M.A. (<em>Underground Musicians Association</em>), qui deviendra quelques années plus tard l'U.G</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">.M.A.A. (<em>Union of God's Musicians and Artists Ascension</em>), une organisation s'étendant aux autres domaines artistiques et dont l'<em>Arkestra</em> n'est qu'un élément.<br />Au fil des ans, l'U.G.M.A.A. s'implique de plus en plus dans la communauté de Watts. Mis à part la musique, toutes sortes d'activités se développent : des cours s</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ur l'histoire et la musique Black pour les enfants, des ateliers d'écriture, de poésie, de danse, de théâtre, d'arts martiaux…</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOdhy_3PNaq2-SafWZjG6q3k4QnhoY3qlxurKk-ZDB_eE5NlbnTUb5m5BhdSpHPAsd104KN_d33QVDe6hHavar2zt1ZP_Sz2GbjQo-VlzVHTmkfc-DOQ4IZiaaICSZS6Z7yHUjIg/s1600-h/horace_beret.0'.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOdhy_3PNaq2-SafWZjG6q3k4QnhoY3qlxurKk-ZDB_eE5NlbnTUb5m5BhdSpHPAsd104KN_d33QVDe6hHavar2zt1ZP_Sz2GbjQo-VlzVHTmkfc-DOQ4IZiaaICSZS6Z7yHUjIg/s200/horace_beret.0'.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439765348777598882" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Durant l'été 1965, le quartier de Watts est le théâtre de sinistres émeutes entre la communauté noire et la police. "<em>Le premier jour de l'insurrection, la fusi</em></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>llade a débuté au Will Rogers Park près de la 103rd rue et Central Avenue. Nous étions, comme d'habitude, en train de répéter plus bas sur la 103rd. La police a débarqué, a encerclé l'orchestre et nous a ordonné d'ar</em></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>rête</em></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>r de jouer car selon eux nous incitions à la révolte. L'instant d'après le quartier était plein d'ambulances et de policiers.</em>"<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Le 8 mai 1968, le saxophoniste So</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">nny Criss entre en studio avec Tapscott pour l'enregistrement de son album <em>Sonny's Dream (Birth Of The New Cool)</em> publié par Prestige. Pour cet album, composé et arrangé par le pianiste, Sonny Criss devait être accompagné d'un orchestre composé de membres du <em>Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra</em>. Mais, à leur grande surprise, ils découvrirent à leur arrivée en studio qu'un autre orchestre avait également été convoqué par le producteur Don S</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">chlitten. Furieux, Criss et Tapscott quittent le studio avant de se raviser et de céder aux conditions de Schlitten. Seul rescapé de l'<em>Arkestra</em>, le batteur Everett Brown, Jr.</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNHv8PvSWJrhaNj5s_nYzVfq7Xy1uMSrLUjEizp_euDY-DJx8U9amBoLGwQ4yxViXKMepmgn9aoNbAYPgYelq4v2Sa5sNgmiZB-1F_ZM7Iz8-ZbqpqH8d4NkfxbFIAynGI3fF-qg/s1600-h/horace_playing-1.0'.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 133px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNHv8PvSWJrhaNj5s_nYzVfq7Xy1uMSrLUjEizp_euDY-DJx8U9amBoLGwQ4yxViXKMepmgn9aoNbAYPgYelq4v2Sa5sNgmiZB-1F_ZM7Iz8-ZbqpqH8d4NkfxbFIAynGI3fF-qg/s200/horace_playing-1.0'.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439765781992405714" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">L'année suivante, sur les conseils de musiciens comme Stanley Crouch et John Carter, Bob Thiele propose à Tapscott d'enregistrer pour son nouveau label Flying Dutchman. "<em>Je n'étais pas intéressé par cet enregistrement, mais j'en ai parlé aux gars du groupe – Arthur Blythe, David Bryant, Walter Savage, Jr. et Everett Brown, Jr. – et leur a</em></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>i dit que nous devions voter. Si ils votaient contre moi nous ferions l'enregistrement. Ils ont voté contre moi.</em>" Tapscott et</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> son groupe entrent donc en studio pour l'enregistrement de <em>The Giant Is Awakened</em> son premier album</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> en leader, à une seule condition cependant, qu'il puisse participer en studio à la finalisation du disque. Cette promesse ne sera pas tenue se qui le mettra hors de lui.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Après ces expériences avec Prestige et Flying Dutchman, il traînera une mauvaise réputation de musicien difficile qu'il vaut mieux éviter.<br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3FwL2yU8u5KjFmh_MqvbsXiwRJoARiHXjGhfPm2pIa8z_8655EVW4NsIyZwf7jTmiSzWgPPNLOLRg1ASMNhuWy4iWngKNCHbVe1darXHZ002FknMC18ZziDanH-T3F0PL3saUiw/s1600-h/horace_live-at-iucc'.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 126px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3FwL2yU8u5KjFmh_MqvbsXiwRJoARiHXjGhfPm2pIa8z_8655EVW4NsIyZwf7jTmiSzWgPPNLOLRg1ASMNhuWy4iWngKNCHbVe1darXHZ002FknMC18ZziDanH-T3F0PL3saUiw/s200/horace_live-at-iucc'.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439766210392819842" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Depuis sa création jusqu'au milieu des années 70, le <em>Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra</em> a accueilli un grand nombre de très bons musiciens comme Azar Lawrence, David Murray, Lawrence "Butch" Morris et son frère Wilber, Sabir Mateen, Vinny Golia, Alex Cline… constituant ainsi un répertoire riche de centaine de compositions originales.<br />Au début des années 70 Tapscott collabore avec Elaine Brown, écrivaine et leader des Black Panther, avec qui il grave deux albums : <em>Seize The Time</em> et <em>Elaine Brown</em>.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCbV5fuaUPWhpD8amK1T9F80QU_oeVCLVrOPLvcsGQMCtMOR1050fv53ECVBLdY3q7_S7UiIeFuM-fSgsqI5gunxGVmAo9Ah3ePyofPZrzZJqet4FQCGGSnv9a5A9sQ8rMwkWpSQ/s1600-h/horace_&-everett-brown-jr'.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 149px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCbV5fuaUPWhpD8amK1T9F80QU_oeVCLVrOPLvcsGQMCtMOR1050fv53ECVBLdY3q7_S7UiIeFuM-fSgsqI5gunxGVmAo9Ah3ePyofPZrzZJqet4FQCGGSnv9a5A9sQ8rMwkWpSQ/s200/horace_&-everett-brown-jr'.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439766596712095266" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">En 1978 débute sa collaboration avec Toshiya Taenaka qui produira </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">trois disques du pianiste pour les labels Interplay et Bopland dont un trio <em>In New York</em> avec Art Davis et Roy Haynes. C'est à cette même date qu'il rencontre Tom Albach, "<em>Il avait l'habitude de venir dans le quartier. Il était là à chaque concert mais ne m'adressait pas la parole. Il est venu à chaque concert pendant cinq ou six ans sans rien dire, juste pour écouter. Puis un jour il a suggéré de nous enregistrer à l'Immanuel United Church of Christ et de fonder le label Nimbus</em>". Deux enregistrement du <em>Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra</em> sont rapidement gravés – <em>Flight 17</em> et <em>The Call</em> – ainsi qu'un troisième enregistré donc <em>Live At The I.U.C.C.</em>.<br />Albach participe également à faire connaître Tapscott en Europe en y organisant différentes tournées. Suivront d'autres albums : <em>At The Crossroads</em> en duo avec Everett Brown, Jr., <em>Dial "B" For Barbra </em>en sextet et les 2 volumes <em>Live At Lobero</em> en trio avec Roberto Miranda et Sonship Theus.<br /><br />De 1982 à 1984, Albach se consa</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">cre essentiellement à l'enregistrement d'une s</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">érie de piano solo les <em>Tapscott Sessions</em>, dont dix volumes ont été publiés à ce jour.<br />Parallèlement, Nimbus enregistre d'autres membres de l'<em>Arkestra</em> – Roberto Miranda, Adele Sebastian, Linda Hill, Dadisi Komolafe, Nate Morgan… - jusqu'en 1985, date à laquelle Tom Albach quitte Los Angeles pour s'installer à Amsterdam.</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCQRShRchywZ8r0YhVT2vRZhkMbTOj204Q6emeHzAvPN1BYGfSYYAGnhSv1dTsENEAvJwkUtuUgCZzJ8vLbrtwe-mRWk5IPTbuXgzGsdJYu6cAjZkLAaR5Ws_gcX7hE8nATfwjdA/s1600-h/horace_bras-croises'.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 134px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCQRShRchywZ8r0YhVT2vRZhkMbTOj204Q6emeHzAvPN1BYGfSYYAGnhSv1dTsENEAvJwkUtuUgCZzJ8vLbrtwe-mRWk5IPTbuXgzGsdJYu6cAjZkLAaR5Ws_gcX7hE8nATfwjdA/s200/horace_bras-croises'.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439766972408197682" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">En 1989, le label suisse Hat Art enregistre Tapscott accompagné de John </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Carter, Cecil McBee et Andrew Cyrille et, en 1993, il se rend à Paris pour enregistrer aux côtés de la saxophoniste Nelly Pouget. A cette époque il collabore également avec la scène hip-hop de Los Angeles, les <em>Watts Prophets</em>, <em>Freestyle Fellowship</em>…<br /><br />En 1995 et 1996 il grave deux albums pour Arabesque, <em>Aiee! The Phantom</em> avec Marcus Belgrave, Abraham Burton, Reggie Workman et Andrew Cyrille et <em>Thoughts Of Dar Es Salaam</em> avec Ray Drummond et Billy Hart.<br /><br />Avant de dispa</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">raître, le 27 février 1999 des suites d'un cancer, Horace Tapscott s'était longuement entretenu avec Steven Isoardi. Ce témoignage indispensable a depuis été publié sous le titre de <em>Songs Of The Unsung - The Musical anAd Social Journey of Horace Tapscott</em>. </span><br /></div><p align="justify"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9s6G3Frk7pHXlwppYSQ_R932nBki19PA9ijA1cZ0gm_L2ven0rqh_hyQqbnlsvXyLVchWGPedvzVsr-Y0Qi4G9GBccTBhQfKFc1bwHoMLciaSZJYs8AzfF1dYRgdynYcTmwKk9A/s1600-h/book'.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 140px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9s6G3Frk7pHXlwppYSQ_R932nBki19PA9ijA1cZ0gm_L2ven0rqh_hyQqbnlsvXyLVchWGPedvzVsr-Y0Qi4G9GBccTBhQfKFc1bwHoMLciaSZJYs8AzfF1dYRgdynYcTmwKk9A/s200/book'.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439767737083398162" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);"><strong>Songs of the Unsung</strong> - The Musical and Social Journey of Horace Tapscott<br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;">par Horace Tapscott et Steven Isoardi</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Duke University Press, 2001</span></p><p align="justify"><br /></p><p align="justify"><br /></p><p align="justify"><br /></p><p align="justify"><br /></p><p align="justify"><br /></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p>bertrandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04478921099297575752noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24009309.post-58480582417631730682010-02-14T23:33:00.043+01:002019-07-31T08:12:23.786+02:00Horace Tapscott Discography (Leader) - Update<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 180%;"><strong><br /></strong></span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">Los Angeles, April 1, 1969</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Horace Tapscott</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">piano</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Black Arthur Blythe</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">alto saxoph</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">o</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">ne</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">David Bryant</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">bass</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Walter Savage, Jr.</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">bass</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><br />Everett Brown, Jr.</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">drum</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">s</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><br />- The Giant Is Awakene</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">d</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"> (H.Taps</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">cott)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- For Fats (A.Blythe)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- The Dark Tree (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Niger’s Them</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">e (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><br /><span style="color: rgb(255 , 102 , 0);">CD reissue: Absord Music Japan (ABCJ-573)</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><br />Hollywood, February 18, 1978</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><br />Horace Tapscott</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">p</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">iano</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Songs Of The Unsung (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- B</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">lue Essence (S.Browne)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- In Times Like These (L.Robertson)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Mary On Sunday (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Lush Life (B.Strayhorn)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- The Goat And Ram Jam (J.Sharps)</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><br />- Something For Kenny (E.Hope) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 102 , 0);">* unissued tracks (from the </span><span style="color: rgb(204 , 0 , 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Live at </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><span style="color: red; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(204 , 0 , 0);">the I.U.C.C.</span> </span><span style="color: rgb(255 , 102 , 0);">sessions)</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><br />Los Angeles, 1978</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><br />Horace Tapscott</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">piano</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><br />Jesse Sharps</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">soprano and te</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">nor saxopho</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">nes, flute</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Linda Hill</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">piano</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Adele Sebastian</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">vocal, flute</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">James An</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">drews</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">tenor saxophone, bass clarinet</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Michael Session</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">alto saxophone</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Kafi Larry Roberts</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">flute</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Herbert Callies</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">alto clarinet</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Red Calle</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">ndar</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">tuba</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><br />Archie Johnson</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">trombone</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><br />Lester Robertson</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">trombone</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><br />Everett Brown, Jr.</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">drums</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><br />William Ma</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">dison</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">percussions, drums</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><br />Louis Spears</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">cello</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><br />David Bryant</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">bass</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><br />Kamonta Lawrence Polk</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">bass</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><br />- Flight 17 First Movement (H.Baker)<br />- Breeze (H.Baker)<br />- Horacio (R.Miranda)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Clarisse (J.Sharps)<br />- Maui (Kamonta)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Coltrane Medley (J.Coltrane) *</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Village Dance Revisited (S.Mateen) *</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">Nimbus (NIMBUS 246)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">Los Angeles, April 8, 1978</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><br />Horace Tapscott</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">piano</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Jesse Sharps</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">soprano and tenor saxophones, flute</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Linda Hill</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">piano</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><br />Adele Sebastian</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">vocal, flute</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Lester Robertson</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">trombone</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><br />David Bryant</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">bass</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Everett Brown, J</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">r.</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">drums</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Herbert Callies</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">alto clarinet</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">James Andrews</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">tenor saxophone, bass cla</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">rinet</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Michael Session</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">alto saxophone</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Kafi Larry Roberts</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">flute, soprano saxophone</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Archie Johnson</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">trombone</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><br />Red Callendar</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">tuba, bass</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><br />William Madison</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">percussions, drums</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><br />Louis Spears</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">cello, bass</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><br />Kamonta Lawrence Polk</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">bass</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><br />- The Call (L.Robertson)</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><br />- Quagmire Manor At Five A.M. (M.Session)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Nakatini Suite (C.Masey)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Peyote Song No. III (J.Sharps)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">Interplay (IP-7724)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255 , 102 , 0);">CD reissue: Interplay (MYCJ-30369)</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><br />New York, January 5, 1979</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><br />Horace Tapscott</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">piano</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><br />Art Davis</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">bass</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><br />Roy Haynes</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">drums</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Lino’s Pad (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Sketches Of Drunken Mary (H.Ta</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">pscott)<br />- If You Could See Me Now (T.Dameron)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">Nimbus (No. 357)</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUGZtCLd1onhK17YqpQVUvguvSbEfITHCcSkrlXJN0HckGAvbaCvN7UagNrf1C7E5hZesr92a3GwF-qjMglzkMO1v-EdKeFPI7XBTECQ6oH3ilkZrUgKO_K75fYiHqEtqYlLx3kQ/s1600-h/live-at-iucc.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441865789932851554" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUGZtCLd1onhK17YqpQVUvguvSbEfITHCcSkrlXJN0HckGAvbaCvN7UagNrf1C7E5hZesr92a3GwF-qjMglzkMO1v-EdKeFPI7XBTECQ6oH3ilkZrUgKO_K75fYiHqEtqYlLx3kQ/s320/live-at-iucc.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 316px;" /></a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255 , 102 , 0);">CD reissue: Nimbus West (NS 357 C),<br />* previously unissued track</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">Los Angeles, </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">F</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">ebruary-June 1979</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Horace Tapscott</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">piano</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Jesse Sharps</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">soprano saxophone</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Sabir Mateen</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">tenor saxophone</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">James Andrews</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">tenor saxophone</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Michael Session</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">al</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">to saxophone</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Kafi Roberts</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">flute</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Herbert Callies</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">alto</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">clarinet</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><br />David Bryant</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">bass</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><br />Alan</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> Hines </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">bass</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Everett Brown, Jr.</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">drums</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Adele Sebastian</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">flute</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Billy Harris </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">soprano</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">and</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">tenor</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">saxophones</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Daa’oud Woods</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">percussions</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><br />Red Callendar</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">tuba</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><br />Lester Robertson</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">trombone</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">John Williams</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">baritone</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">saxophone</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><br />Aubrey Hart </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">flute</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><br />Roberto Miranda</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">bass</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><br />Billy Hinton</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">drums</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><br />Linda Hill</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">piano</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><br />Des</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">ta Walker</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">tenor</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">saxophone</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><br />Mike Daniels</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">percussions</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><br />Louis Spears</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">cello</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><br />- Macrame (J.Sharps)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Future Sally’s Time (A.Blythe/S.Crouch)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Noissessprahs (S.Mateen)<br />- McKowsky’s First Fifth (J.Sharps) *</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Village Dance</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"> (S.Mateen)</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><br />- L.T.T. (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Desert Fairy Princess (J.Sharps)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Lift Every Voice (J.W.Johnson/J.R.Johnson)</span><br />
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<span style="color: rgb(204 , 0 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Lighthouse 79 - vol.1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">Nimbus West (NS 4035 C)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255 , 102 , 0);">CD only</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">Hermosa Beach, October 10, 1979</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Horace Tapscott</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">piano</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Regie Bullen</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">trumpet</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Gary Bias</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">alto saxoph</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">o</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">ne</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Roberto Miranda</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">bass</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">David Bryant</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">bass</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">George Goldsmith</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">drums</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Akirfa</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"> (L.Robertson</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Dem' Folks (L.Hill)</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><br />- I Remember Clifford (B.Golson)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Leland's Song</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"> (L.Hill)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Acirfa</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"> (L.Robertson</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">)</span><br />
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<span style="color: rgb(204 , 0 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Lighthouse 79 - vol.2</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">Nimbus West</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"> (NS 4146 C)</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLtjkz1nscGE1Ak92N0i-Z0TGvejUtHvu5eu-Q2UvjvF4xYTh41nXIHFCw8KafUPZdIntUD4zg0iV4Qh-0pXeM07XegicK9UV7TcUS50190j5N0DNIU2JdOYW_8OjB3UM2vtJQzg/s1600-h/lighthouse-79-vol.2.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441867702864013074" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLtjkz1nscGE1Ak92N0i-Z0TGvejUtHvu5eu-Q2UvjvF4xYTh41nXIHFCw8KafUPZdIntUD4zg0iV4Qh-0pXeM07XegicK9UV7TcUS50190j5N0DNIU2JdOYW_8OjB3UM2vtJQzg/s320/lighthouse-79-vol.2.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 315px;" /></a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 102 , 0);">CD only</span><br />Hermosa Beach, October 11, 1979</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Horace Tapscott</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">piano</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Regie Bullen</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">trumpet</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Gary Bias</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">alto saxoph</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">o</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">ne</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Roberto Miranda</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">bass</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">David Bryant</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">bass</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">George Goldsmith</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">drums</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Akirfa</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"> (L.Robertson</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Niger's Theme</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"> (</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">H.Tapscott</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Stella by Starlight (V.Young/N.Washington)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Lush Life</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"> (</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">B.Strayhorn</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Inspiration Of Silence</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">(E.Straughter</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">)</span><br />
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<span style="color: rgb(204 , 0 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Autumn Colors</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">Bopland (K26P 6311)</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><br /></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl2UqEXwO9Tz2Q5rB3_nOppkQb4JIH24tvVE-Bwr9pW2Cj6ecaff_7HSj7fKYW3jejWEvQhH3nClzG_AYC6r6TRGkYjbkt-u3xACs93kc9ugUATE2Gx5cdtpSZFMpEiOD-6oWjdQ/s1600-h/autumn-colors.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441867707082674738" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl2UqEXwO9Tz2Q5rB3_nOppkQb4JIH24tvVE-Bwr9pW2Cj6ecaff_7HSj7fKYW3jejWEvQhH3nClzG_AYC6r6TRGkYjbkt-u3xACs93kc9ugUATE2Gx5cdtpSZFMpEiOD-6oWjdQ/s320/autumn-colors.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 316px;" /></a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(255 , 102 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 102 , 0);">LP reissue: Interplay (CEJC00268)<br />CD reissues: Venus Records (TKCZ-79072)</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 102 , 0);">Absord Music Japan (ABCJ-577)</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">Hollywood, May 3, 1980</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Horace Tapscott</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">piano</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">David Bryant</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">bass</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Everett Brown, Jr. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">drums</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Blues For Dee II (H.Tapscott)<br />- Dee B</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">ee's Dance (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Autumn Colors (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- J.O.B. (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">Nimbus (NS 579)</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuZHi477KmzAzksqLIvnBTm2sxJF9_9kTw5b8A00oS-kIu-X6TrjW6E73Q1QRbWE0t-WhzBgWx9HbYDuQhXY3nOH4QlR9h0WZkv6kStGsML5gJ1O1GbcFOIl3ybk3-IWP5jn688w/s1600-h/at-the-crossroads.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441869414313110706" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuZHi477KmzAzksqLIvnBTm2sxJF9_9kTw5b8A00oS-kIu-X6TrjW6E73Q1QRbWE0t-WhzBgWx9HbYDuQhXY3nOH4QlR9h0WZkv6kStGsML5gJ1O1GbcFOIl3ybk3-IWP5jn688w/s320/at-the-crossroads.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 317px;" /></a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255 , 102 , 0);">LP only</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><br />Los Angeles, 1980</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Horace Tapscott</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">piano</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Everett Brown, Jr.</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">drums</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- At The Cross Roads (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Middle Age Madness (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Ballad For Window Lee Black (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Marcellus III (E.Brown)</span><br />
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<span style="color: rgb(204 , 0 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Dial “B” For Barbra</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">Nimbus (NS 1147)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(255 , 102 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 102 , 0);">CD reissue: Nimbus West (NS 1147 C)</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">Los Angeles, 1981</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Horace Tapscott </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">piano</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Reggie Bullen</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">trumpet</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Gary Bias</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">alto and soprano saxophones</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Sabir Mateen</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">tenor saxophone</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Roberto Miranda</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">bass</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Everett Brown, Jr.</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">drums, percussions</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span style="font-size: 85%;">- Lately’s Solo (H.Tapscott)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Dial “B” For Barbra (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Dem’ Folks (L.Hill)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">Nimbus (1369)</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSJfjLANatJBeJ9GhyphenhyphenmxsDy0kRBKWD16wIqJHTBFrTpbGPt7vrJGlJaMp_1Xyys7JtDv_lpACvZQiVwYh_6gshMZ7em7GRprFgljUxzs0G5Ng_8npxtMEikafVc-iv0v0SVBx-Xg/s1600-h/live-at-lobero.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441869428903236210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSJfjLANatJBeJ9GhyphenhyphenmxsDy0kRBKWD16wIqJHTBFrTpbGPt7vrJGlJaMp_1Xyys7JtDv_lpACvZQiVwYh_6gshMZ7em7GRprFgljUxzs0G5Ng_8npxtMEikafVc-iv0v0SVBx-Xg/s320/live-at-lobero.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 316px;" /></a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: rgb(255 , 102 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 102 , 0);">CD reissue: Nimbus West (NS 2370 C),<br />* previously unissued track</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">Santa Barbara, November 12, 1981</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Horace Tapscott</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">piano</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><br />Roberto Miranda</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">bass</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Sonship Theus</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">drums</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Inception (H.Tapscott) *<br />- Sketches Of Drunken Mary (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Raisha’s New-Hip </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">Dance (</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">H.Tapscott)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- The Dark Tree (H.</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">Tapscott)</span><br />
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<span style="color: rgb(204 , 0 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Live At Lobero – vo</span><span style="color: rgb(204 , 0 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">l</span><span style="color: rgb(204 , 0 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">. II</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">Nimb</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">us (1258)</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTJd91aMnuNssuoK9ps1xH9W9VChOCFsbdm3KoN3lDVvO0OmJkVG1Wb2eobHb3Gu4PN6gwazUxN2LP5kT75u_CNnCPEinxcxMJ73ClJvGwZNY7wxGDFFomrviX-YD6-p1JcPQDeg/s1600-h/live-at-lobero-vol.2.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441869432215127602" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTJd91aMnuNssuoK9ps1xH9W9VChOCFsbdm3KoN3lDVvO0OmJkVG1Wb2eobHb3Gu4PN6gwazUxN2LP5kT75u_CNnCPEinxcxMJ73ClJvGwZNY7wxGDFFomrviX-YD6-p1JcPQDeg/s320/live-at-lobero-vol.2.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 317px;" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255 , 102 , 0);">LP only</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><br />Santa Barbara, </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">November 12, 1981</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Horace Tapscott</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">piano</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Roberto Miranda</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">bass</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Sonship Theus</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">drums</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Lino’s Pad (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Close To Freedom (C.Crunk)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- St. Michael (R.Miranda)</span><br />
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<span style="color: rgb(204 , 0 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Dissent Or Descent</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">Nimbus West (NS 509 C)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><br /></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTZhAZVmoLA7KYyqgdiZ3H3Od7sHdOLnOhIMTTQvzzylZGCPxyKnkRtXPDytpc8MSbtw_N2OQYQKcb0ulLF19fN8b06z1X3u9QMH0icaqG1_Tjjj0Gk3XUke-z7Z8ZIZtR3PTbKw/s1600-h/dissent-or-descent.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441875820678623458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTZhAZVmoLA7KYyqgdiZ3H3Od7sHdOLnOhIMTTQvzzylZGCPxyKnkRtXPDytpc8MSbtw_N2OQYQKcb0ulLF19fN8b06z1X3u9QMH0icaqG1_Tjjj0Gk3XUke-z7Z8ZIZtR3PTbKw/s320/dissent-or-descent.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 320px;" /></a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(255 , 102 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 102 , 0);">CD only</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">New </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">York and Santa Barbara, 1982-1984</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Horace Tapscott</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">piano</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Fred Hopkins</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">bass</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Ben Riley</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">drums</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- As A Child (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Sandy And Niles (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- To The Great House (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Spellbound (C.Jordan)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Ballad For Samuel (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Ruby, My Dear (T.Monk)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Chico’s Back In Town (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
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<span style="color: rgb(204 , 0 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">The Tapscott Sessions Vol. 1</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><br />Nimbus (NS-1</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">581)</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiym_zjGHMuwCJRMnmqKskRcsGp2mbnCkxtTTKV-opBKdmEau_YoTx7mlGUpv2f9YwNb_6h8N0AZ6NfU86cQe8iqT5cmgtQI3EcmYDIKO_ucEBYOq_CjicRu5g6HAUNNrG4z5Debg/s1600-h/tapscott-sessions-vol.1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441872060834483378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiym_zjGHMuwCJRMnmqKskRcsGp2mbnCkxtTTKV-opBKdmEau_YoTx7mlGUpv2f9YwNb_6h8N0AZ6NfU86cQe8iqT5cmgtQI3EcmYDIKO_ucEBYOq_CjicRu5g6HAUNNrG4z5Debg/s320/tapscott-sessions-vol.1.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 317px;" /></a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 102 , 0);">LP only</span><br />Santa Barbara, June, 1982</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Horace Tapscott</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">piano</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Jenny’s Spirit’s Waltz (H.Tapscott)<br />- Speedy Mike (A.Hines)<br />- Mother Ship (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- This Is For Benny (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Alone Together (H.Dietz/A.Schwartz)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Haunted (M.Swan)</span><br />
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<span style="color: rgb(204 , 0 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">The </span><span style="color: rgb(204 , 0 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Tapscott Sessions Vol. 4</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">Nimbus (NS-1814)</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUgu5rd4iBKN5HruaBqkO68Gq7wAR2rVNwO-5YqqGaIK717C4_xeiFG-HGkGmBhbkjH7FuyzG2EQ3foLLDdJB9lEwFDHRjLMafRgwyZuFShN1JpN_Yqv00oEFfm-CUUq2owgsgnQ/s1600-h/tapscott-sessions-vol.4.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441872066093265874" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUgu5rd4iBKN5HruaBqkO68Gq7wAR2rVNwO-5YqqGaIK717C4_xeiFG-HGkGmBhbkjH7FuyzG2EQ3foLLDdJB9lEwFDHRjLMafRgwyZuFShN1JpN_Yqv00oEFfm-CUUq2owgsgnQ/s320/tapscott-sessions-vol.4.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 319px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 320px;" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 102 , 0);">LP only</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">Santa Barbara, September, 1982</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Ho</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">race Tapscott</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">piano</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- A Dress For Renee (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- The Hero’s Last Dance (H.Tapscott)<br />- Shades Of Soweto (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Whit (L.Spears)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- First Call Of The </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">Humming Bird (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Toward The Sunset (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- As Of Yet (A.Blythe)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Forgiving (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
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<span style="color: rgb(204 , 0 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">The Tapscott Sessions Vol. 2</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">Nimbus (NS-1692)</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihFB489EAit2Q85-dQ4FHfDLqcOithBMFQ-TE6BfEECWO6AtmL6FDg4cCO99XL7gLRbsmI7_bkXyiTLGpKxKoWRUygBFDhBqEKqoAmo_Eztouyokj1-tZLWj-jlUGnvH61wrk2Zg/s1600-h/tapscott-sessions-vol.2.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441879953681619490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihFB489EAit2Q85-dQ4FHfDLqcOithBMFQ-TE6BfEECWO6AtmL6FDg4cCO99XL7gLRbsmI7_bkXyiTLGpKxKoWRUygBFDhBqEKqoAmo_Eztouyokj1-tZLWj-jlUGnvH61wrk2Zg/s320/tapscott-sessions-vol.2.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 315px;" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 102 , 0);">LP only</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><br />Santa Barbara, November, 1982</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0);">Horace Tapscott</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">piano</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Struggle X An Afro-American Dream (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Many Nights Ago (C.Crunk)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span style="color: red; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(204 , 0 , 0); font-size: 130%;">The Tapscott Sessions Vol. 7</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span style="color: red; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 85%;">Nimbus (NS-2147)</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><br /></span></span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-e4XZWbtQFsR6ZtcCAXMsUoiTDBzdZJwBAmHtu6ipEjcXFnwfVAuJ497af5Yhzj-wMIkRElxH1_UDuWWaYtFFuse62aEnOs_5jkwm2ojHyWvWmkzgHobwai_DcmGjSXnWrVXh4w/s1600-h/tapscott-sessions-vol.7.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441879956845063826" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-e4XZWbtQFsR6ZtcCAXMsUoiTDBzdZJwBAmHtu6ipEjcXFnwfVAuJ497af5Yhzj-wMIkRElxH1_UDuWWaYtFFuse62aEnOs_5jkwm2ojHyWvWmkzgHobwai_DcmGjSXnWrVXh4w/s320/tapscott-sessions-vol.7.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 317px;" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 102 , 0);">LP only</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><br />Santa Barbara, February, 1983</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0);">Horace Tapscott </span><span style="font-style: italic;">piano</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><br />- Riding The San Andreas (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Amanda’s Tone Poem (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Southwestern Avenue Shuffle (H.Tapscott)</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><br />- Yesterday’s Dream (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- ‘Round Midnight (T.Monk)</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><br />- On The Nile (C.Tolliver)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Sonnet Of Butterfly McQueen (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span style="color: rgb(204 , 0 , 0); font-size: 130%; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">The Tapscott Sessions Vol. 3</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span style="font-size: 85%;">Nimbus (NS-1703)</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><br /></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitoU9kLMpPso9rRWxGx5zI3_krypIPUft-2xdVrnalt_XfLZCGrSBIM8CPnqH8Vikl_Af1wm9EGgiryReB8-cEpZHZVIxm5kO2eqY8h4ElYQq48u5ndRDCVNyjEoxUoABTU30Vrg/s1600-h/tapscott-sessions-vol.3.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441879960911130594" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitoU9kLMpPso9rRWxGx5zI3_krypIPUft-2xdVrnalt_XfLZCGrSBIM8CPnqH8Vikl_Af1wm9EGgiryReB8-cEpZHZVIxm5kO2eqY8h4ElYQq48u5ndRDCVNyjEoxUoABTU30Vrg/s320/tapscott-sessions-vol.3.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 318px;" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><br /><br /><br /></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 102 , 0);">LP only</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"></span><br />Santa Barbara, April, 1983</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0);">Horace Tapscott</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">piano</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- The Tuus (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Lately’s Light-Green Blues (H.Tapscott)</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><br />- Reflections Of Self (H.Tapscott)</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><br />- Kopkee’s Blues (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- After The Storm (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
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<span style="color: rgb(204 , 0 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: red; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(204 , 0 , 0);">Modern Jazz Piano Forum</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(204 , 0 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 100%;"><span style="color: red; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(204 , 0 , 0);">Interplay Special Volume 1</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><br /><span style="font-size: 85%;">Interplay (ART-CD-30)</span></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAlfFiguIZjEbVClooL7JvTsxgmpJjdWDz9tE99iKgD3Qh8jfQ0EsXQe1Msm5d5wrZfGb-dOfl6UnocsdZ_YR96M6wIcfOlucyqc1eYXl6chXasM3FVO0Mtp4ms-unZJdCVzbHkQ/s1600-h/modern-jazz-piano-forum.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441882252448900834" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAlfFiguIZjEbVClooL7JvTsxgmpJjdWDz9tE99iKgD3Qh8jfQ0EsXQe1Msm5d5wrZfGb-dOfl6UnocsdZ_YR96M6wIcfOlucyqc1eYXl6chXasM3FVO0Mtp4ms-unZJdCVzbHkQ/s320/modern-jazz-piano-forum.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 318px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 320px;" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 102 , 0);">Various Artists<br />CD only</span><br />Los Angeles, August 12, 1983</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0);">Horace Tapscott</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">piano</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0);">Roberto Miranda</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">bass</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0);">Everett Brown, Jr.</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">drums</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Sketches Of Drunken Mary (H.Tapscott)</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span style="color: red; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(204 , 0 , 0); font-size: 130%;">Little Afrika</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span style="font-size: 85%;">Absord Music Japan (ABCJ-607)</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><br /></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIskGsEYLXxk_TcwqJu8NvfrxykabD9D9z-PojBs5QV9gCnaJqsi-RFnoq-223HsiH8RAznUxTxUp1JO1YOnf9hngTqG0kV8kd_Owd0q7BuRibBTQo4oCm3Bdi9eNZ_8R_-dumCg/s1600/little-afrika.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5544308567442556418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIskGsEYLXxk_TcwqJu8NvfrxykabD9D9z-PojBs5QV9gCnaJqsi-RFnoq-223HsiH8RAznUxTxUp1JO1YOnf9hngTqG0kV8kd_Owd0q7BuRibBTQo4oCm3Bdi9eNZ_8R_-dumCg/s320/little-afrika.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 318px;" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span style="color: rgb(204 , 0 , 0); font-size: 130%; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 102 , 0);"><br /><br /><br />CD only</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><br />Hollywood, August 16, 1983</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0);">Horace Tapscott</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">piano</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Swing On A Limb</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"> (H.Tapscott)</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Little Afrika (L.Hill)</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Niger's Theme (H.Tapscott)</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span style="color: rgb(204 , 0 , 0); font-size: 130%; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Tapscott's Thoughts</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"> (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span style="color: rgb(204 , 0 , 0); font-size: 130%; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(204 , 0 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: red; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(204 , 0 , 0);">The Tapscott Sessions Vol. 6</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span style="font-size: 85%;">Nimbus (NS-2036)</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><br /></span></span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge7L6UiNpWokpSyzg3QF2xcLpcPBcSJLzFpMZuW1a8Sg82SDUxyElqAnrCxSfkxgV42YrOykhEiCddJ1wCjj4IhjlZirHwzcK9j-IUUV5b8uZbPFEMEXVpTRBcHxnP62WmluDR4A/s1600-h/tapscott-sessions-vol.6.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441882258298646242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge7L6UiNpWokpSyzg3QF2xcLpcPBcSJLzFpMZuW1a8Sg82SDUxyElqAnrCxSfkxgV42YrOykhEiCddJ1wCjj4IhjlZirHwzcK9j-IUUV5b8uZbPFEMEXVpTRBcHxnP62WmluDR4A/s320/tapscott-sessions-vol.6.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 318px;" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 102 , 0);">LP only</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><br />Santa Barbara, October, 1983</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0);">Horace Tapscott</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">piano</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><br />- Ancestral Echoes (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Jessica (R.Porter)</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><br />- Restless Nights (R.King)<br />- Chartreuse Blues (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- The Golden Pearl (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- New Horizon (K.Ruzadun)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span style="color: red; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(204 , 0 , 0); font-size: 130%;">The Tapscott Sessions Vol. 9</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span style="font-size: 85%;">Nimbus West (NS 2369 C)</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><br /></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvDHInjdP5e2a3fOHgYV4XCmpuRYVWpRYX1SN4LL8E99NZKTGZhZAeEW3XbdyWVxWUtBQL28D9howCQgHOR6q_U5rkAB8KXhPPG_KctD0x4fAtQfY_pvZJ5g1l9AaTU-bOmbj4Xg/s1600-h/tapscott-sessions-vol.9.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441885761149687442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvDHInjdP5e2a3fOHgYV4XCmpuRYVWpRYX1SN4LL8E99NZKTGZhZAeEW3XbdyWVxWUtBQL28D9howCQgHOR6q_U5rkAB8KXhPPG_KctD0x4fAtQfY_pvZJ5g1l9AaTU-bOmbj4Xg/s320/tapscott-sessions-vol.9.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 318px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 320px;" /></a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 102 , 0);">CD only</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">Santa Barbara, 1983</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0);">Horace Tapscott</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 100%;"> <span style="font-style: italic;">piano</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><br />- It Never Happened Before (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Fleurette Africaine (D.Ellington)</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><br />- Afro-Blue (M.Santamaria)<br />- Love In Bloom (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Strollin’ (H.Silver)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Whisper Not (B.Golson)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Fair-To-Middlin’ (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise (S.Romberg)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Anwar (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span style="color: red; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span style="color: red; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span style="color: red; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(204 , 0 , 0); font-size: 130%;">Faith</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span style="font-size: 85%;">Absord Music Japan (ABCJ-580)</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><br /></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvpqZMD5ekGAKo1ZtbJ3CFCVZqMmYrTtA-tIEaVI3MOS23ZPh4prHAixfUis-AvMzr342oubxl6IxhaPznEIh9uJmvOS5GuTL6kVos-h6v_zXDdMmG1UEVaS9V7-SUI6LU5tZ75A/s1600/tapsco_hora_faith~~~~_101b.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5462647078745067682" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvpqZMD5ekGAKo1ZtbJ3CFCVZqMmYrTtA-tIEaVI3MOS23ZPh4prHAixfUis-AvMzr342oubxl6IxhaPznEIh9uJmvOS5GuTL6kVos-h6v_zXDdMmG1UEVaS9V7-SUI6LU5tZ75A/s320/tapsco_hora_faith~~~~_101b.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 307px;" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span style="color: rgb(204 , 0 , 0); font-size: 130%; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 102 , 0);"><br /><br /><br />CD only</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><br />1983</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0);">Horace Tapscott</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">piano</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0);">Melvin Moore</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">violin</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 100%;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 100%;">Louis Spears</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 100%;"> <span style="font-style: italic;">cello</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0);">Roberto Miranda</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">bass</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0);">Everett Brown, Jr.</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">drums</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Sketches Of Drunken Mary (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Faith</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"> (R.Miranda / H.Tapscott)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Yesterday's Sunset</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"> (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- As A Child (H.Tapscott)</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span style="color: rgb(204 , 0 , 0); font-size: 130%; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span style="color: rgb(204 , 0 , 0); font-size: 130%; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span style="color: rgb(204 , 0 , 0); font-size: 130%; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">The Tapscott Sessions Vol. 5</span><br /><span style="font-size: 85%;">Nimbus (NS-1925)</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><br /></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbayIyvT-5M6PHud6IN5Mog_CAEgitnsgTIn8jlkihkbF32uLzMnp402jOtOobaStv7Lhv18igVzxGPVH3DQXFMubjkj_09UCZXrjYkH5U25whVdv4W4CKvTPkb9FupYbFPQNBYQ/s1600-h/tapscott-sessions-vol.5.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441885759550742114" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbayIyvT-5M6PHud6IN5Mog_CAEgitnsgTIn8jlkihkbF32uLzMnp402jOtOobaStv7Lhv18igVzxGPVH3DQXFMubjkj_09UCZXrjYkH5U25whVdv4W4CKvTPkb9FupYbFPQNBYQ/s320/tapscott-sessions-vol.5.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 318px;" /></a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 102 , 0);">LP only</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><br />Santa Barbara, January, 1984</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0);">Horace Tapscott</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">piano</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><br />- Stringeurisms (H.Tapscott)<br />- I’ll Have One When It’s Over (H.Tap</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">scott)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Blues In Pirouette (H.Tapscott)</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><br />- Perfumes In The Night (H.Tapscott)<br />- Hi-Pockets’ Swan Song (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span style="color: red; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(204 , 0 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: red; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(204 , 0 , 0);">The Tapscott Sessions Vol. 8</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span style="font-size: 85%;">Nimbus West (NS2258C)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><br /></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc2WOnVViNx0hgbzppsf8YJTod_SombmYXdWd46S5TkGLjrcekbFJJh3hMiL1Q0Y9frTwROCCquGQWSHMtOfI6mxBTvLs0QocwLeDOVa4lHnN-l06HIiC9YksWP4i6roCIJUgHDg/s1600-h/tapscott-sessions-vol.8.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441885765216450130" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc2WOnVViNx0hgbzppsf8YJTod_SombmYXdWd46S5TkGLjrcekbFJJh3hMiL1Q0Y9frTwROCCquGQWSHMtOfI6mxBTvLs0QocwLeDOVa4lHnN-l06HIiC9YksWP4i6roCIJUgHDg/s320/tapscott-sessions-vol.8.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 318px;" /></a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 102 , 0);">CD only</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">Santa Barbara, 1982-1984</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0);">Horace Tapscott</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">piano</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Fire Waltz (M.Waldron)</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><br />- Little Niles (R.Weston)</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><br />- Crepuscule With Nellie (T.Monk)</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><br />- As A Child (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span style="color: rgb(204 , 0 , 0); font-size: 130%; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">The Tapscott Sessions Vol. 10</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span style="font-size: 85%;">Nimbus West (NS237</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span style="font-size: 85%;">0C)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><br /></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLEMCdb30ULBBfhdx4EInvZNSE9c74k1hVVWP6buANvdWLvEqgGenzjNi3ZIZGkJizshYh5vaEhDsi-6tYHxAp3ghSv9i65aUBeuP1eVXE-uxlOa5lb0TI9TXqLVMz3E0jG3rzzw/s1600-h/tapscott-sessions-vol.10.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441905006645207586" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLEMCdb30ULBBfhdx4EInvZNSE9c74k1hVVWP6buANvdWLvEqgGenzjNi3ZIZGkJizshYh5vaEhDsi-6tYHxAp3ghSv9i65aUBeuP1eVXE-uxlOa5lb0TI9TXqLVMz3E0jG3rzzw/s320/tapscott-sessions-vol.10.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 318px;" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 102 , 0);">CD only</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"></span><br />Santa Barbara, 1982-1984</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0);">Horace Tapscott</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">piano</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><br />- Miguel (H.Tapscott)</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><br />- Roses In Bloom (H.Tapscott)<br />- Ballad For Samuel (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- First Love (H.Tapscott)<br />- Searching (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Afternoon In Paris (J.Lewis)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Upside Down (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Getting Ready (H.Tapscott)</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><br />- Maya And Me (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
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<span style="color: rgb(204 , 0 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">The Tapscott Sessions Vol. 11</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">Nimbus West (NS2581C)</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf-N6Yz9hUTsp6uwV3h4sxtQfLuMBsdfmnyk98IKmy-DokN2qCZxhQ_39-ckr4JGIH2_rmm-KOUkHMU2v16MQo8fJsninLWwyuoNMuZgm-FJz3jqem6__ybqyGWgndteoG53v2gA/s1600-h/tapscottsessionsvol11.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441905011014449362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf-N6Yz9hUTsp6uwV3h4sxtQfLuMBsdfmnyk98IKmy-DokN2qCZxhQ_39-ckr4JGIH2_rmm-KOUkHMU2v16MQo8fJsninLWwyuoNMuZgm-FJz3jqem6__ybqyGWgndteoG53v2gA/s320/tapscottsessionsvol11.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 319px;" /></a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 102 , 0);">CD only</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">Santa Barbara, 1982-1984</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><br />Horace Tapscott</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">piano</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><br />- Nica’s Dream (H.Silver)<br />- Besame Mucho (C.Velazquez)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- For Patrice (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- A Call for All Demons (Sun Ra)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Full House (H.Tapscott)<br />- Long Ago (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Straight Street (J.Coltrane)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Vigilance (H.Tapscott)<br />- Sabroso (H.Tapscott)<br />- This is for Kenny (E.Hope)<br />- Wistful Vista (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Vox Populi (H.Tapscott)</span><span style="color: rgb(204 , 0 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Horace Tapscott Octet Live</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">Americana (AMC-3002)</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE_7T6l4zQ_qdKYQMmYp6VLd1EdDKcHEAcKoO7o5cGu3_8o6MplPksWmgrbSss1GNTTzKNWGml-wvma0U6rLv0am-UdURMkbeISuCJ624Vjj1mEX91zdQeXymYaukAMhX6wujTww/s1600-h/octet-live.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441905016089462242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE_7T6l4zQ_qdKYQMmYp6VLd1EdDKcHEAcKoO7o5cGu3_8o6MplPksWmgrbSss1GNTTzKNWGml-wvma0U6rLv0am-UdURMkbeISuCJ624Vjj1mEX91zdQeXymYaukAMhX6wujTww/s320/octet-live.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 281px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 320px;" /></a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><br /><br /><br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">Los Angeles, September 17, 1987</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Horace Tapscott</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">piano</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><br />Gary Bias</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">alto saxophone</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><br />Rastine Calhoun</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">tenor saxophone</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Thurman Green</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">trombone</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Roberto Miranda</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">bass</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><br />David Bryant</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">bass</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><br />Donald Dean </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">drums</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><br />Sonship Theus</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">drums</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><br />- Dem Folks (L.Hill)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- One For Lately (T.Green)<br />- Little Africa (L.Hill)</span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(204 , 0 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">The Dark Tree Vol. 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">Hat Hut (hat ART CD 6053)</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjhdwKMNtjIALMCqmY-TfsWFC3IsxsMAZJla9mcL8lmlxzu-wt0lK2FUMtj_evF4yYQW35q0cCypjESPpTt6uYP69gGBvMvrhXQOp_sDV2HqDBENG9cI2xCFq86mA1PKqeCGJWhg/s1600-h/dark-tree-1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441908283261787394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjhdwKMNtjIALMCqmY-TfsWFC3IsxsMAZJla9mcL8lmlxzu-wt0lK2FUMtj_evF4yYQW35q0cCypjESPpTt6uYP69gGBvMvrhXQOp_sDV2HqDBENG9cI2xCFq86mA1PKqeCGJWhg/s320/dark-tree-1.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 318px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 320px;" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 102 , 0);">CD reissues:</span> <span style="color: rgb(204 , 0 , 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">The </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><span style="color: rgb(204 , 0 , 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Dark Tree 1 & 2</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><br /><span style="color: rgb(255 , 102 , 0);">2nd edition: Hat Hut (hatOLOGY 2-540)</span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(255 , 102 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><br />3rd edition: Hat Hut (hatOLOGY 2-630)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">Hollywood, December 14-17, 1989</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><br />Horace Tapscott</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">piano</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">John Carter</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">clarinet</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><br />Cecil McBee</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">bass</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><br />And</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">rew Cyrille</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">drums</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- The Dark Tree (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Sketches Of Drunken Mary (H.Tapscott)<br />- Lino’s Pad (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- One For Lately (T.Green)</span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(204 , 0 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">The Dark Tree Vol. 2</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">Hat Hut (hat ART CD 6083)</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNg57LnFmDlWXPoIXmiDHL7o_9RosUAQ2sbnNtpkgUGqCh7_ltrIiJSQaKUV9FQAZ8wFM_7Rrj_tZVLmscBaMpCAxZhfsOMHkegz_HwSKOGaHK_mcX84-vgu16gVfneHJupdrBYA/s1600-h/dark-tree-2.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441908289710965634" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNg57LnFmDlWXPoIXmiDHL7o_9RosUAQ2sbnNtpkgUGqCh7_ltrIiJSQaKUV9FQAZ8wFM_7Rrj_tZVLmscBaMpCAxZhfsOMHkegz_HwSKOGaHK_mcX84-vgu16gVfneHJupdrBYA/s320/dark-tree-2.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 319px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 320px;" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 102 , 0);">CD reissues:</span> <span style="color: rgb(204 , 0 , 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">The </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><span style="color: rgb(204 , 0 , 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Dark Tree 1 & 2</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><br /><span style="color: rgb(255 , 102 , 0);">2nd edition: Hat Hut (hatOLOGY 2-540)</span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(255 , 102 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><br />3rd edition: Hat Hut (hatOLOGY 2-630)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">Hollywood, December 14-17, 1989</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Horace Tapscott</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">piano</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">John Carter</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">clarinet</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Cecil McBee</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">bass</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><br />Andrew Cyrille</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">drums</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Sandy And Niles (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Bavarian Mist Mary (M.Session)<br />- The Dark Tree (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- A Dress For Renee (H.Tapscott)<br />- Nyja’s Theme (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
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<span style="color: rgb(204 , 0 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Kimus #4</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">Hat Hut (hat ART CD 16004)</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjagvZxbKG0CyTj7ixMsJJ3MRceu1HNrFy8Ux9ItpZLnPllWcgPNLum8dGAbUebgPfzVG5TvSTLMGcmRaUMVUAEHu1HtnwceovC6FYRpKtY-NjVIuoVaHICZPVJUUy96vpNo67udw/s1600-h/kimus4.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441908290693488274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjagvZxbKG0CyTj7ixMsJJ3MRceu1HNrFy8Ux9ItpZLnPllWcgPNLum8dGAbUebgPfzVG5TvSTLMGcmRaUMVUAEHu1HtnwceovC6FYRpKtY-NjVIuoVaHICZPVJUUy96vpNo67udw/s320/kimus4.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 319px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 320px;" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255 , 102 , 0);">Various Artists<br />CD only<br />Featuring a third version of <span style="font-style: italic;">The Dark Tree</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><br />Hollywood, December 15, 1989</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Horace Tapscott</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">piano</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">John Carter</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">clarin</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">et</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Cecil McBee</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">bass</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Andrew Cyrille</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">drums</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- The Dark Tree (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(204 , 0 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Aiee! The Phantom</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">Arabesque Jazz (AJ0119)</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU76eVaP26ohpgwoEznUplq6iBytLAH-J_j5qwLpFJHEV5g3fHkQezOnGfqmgYEpyRkyJy-8qZwr_nv9SDO6RnuWbBjEPksR-SEeZBSZK6enZxN_BkmBkvu-fY3fnnNDB3tJMftg/s1600-h/aiee!-the-phantom.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441913643483035762" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU76eVaP26ohpgwoEznUplq6iBytLAH-J_j5qwLpFJHEV5g3fHkQezOnGfqmgYEpyRkyJy-8qZwr_nv9SDO6RnuWbBjEPksR-SEeZBSZK6enZxN_BkmBkvu-fY3fnnNDB3tJMftg/s320/aiee!-the-phantom.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 319px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 320px;" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255 , 102 , 0);"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 102 , 0);">CD only</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 102 , 0);"></span></span><br />New York, June 1995</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Horace Tapscott</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">piano</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Marcus Belgrave </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">trumpet</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Abraham Burton </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">alto</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">saxophone</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Reggie Workman</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">bass</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Andrew Cyrille</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">drums</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- To The Great House (H.Tapscott)<br />- The Goat And Ram Jam (J.Sharps)<br />- Aiee! The Phantom (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Drunken Mary / Mary On Sunday (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Inspiration Of Silence (E.Straughter)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Mothership (H.Tapscott)</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(204 , 0 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Among Friends</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">Jazz Friends Productions (JFP 004)</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgg6v9WkWR9RaKazrCA-Qm7fJgogLT1iohyphenhyphen3OJaViIkjv-AjfwuVWQ7vGd9g4LsiMs4Mdg5u5yMimwVqVl5XBvOtxARPXDVc5ZhfsigKgaEnlw69iafqLpLZfH1pTPQhURZr9rHQ/s1600-h/among-friends.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441913650396887154" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgg6v9WkWR9RaKazrCA-Qm7fJgogLT1iohyphenhyphen3OJaViIkjv-AjfwuVWQ7vGd9g4LsiMs4Mdg5u5yMimwVqVl5XBvOtxARPXDVc5ZhfsigKgaEnlw69iafqLpLZfH1pTPQhURZr9rHQ/s320/among-friends.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 286px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 320px;" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255 , 102 , 0);"><br />Horace Tapscott / Sonny Simmons Quartet</span></span><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 102 , 0);">CD only</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><br />Longwy, July 28, 1995</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Horace Tapscott </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">piano</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Sonny Simmons</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">alto saxophone</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">James Lewis</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">bass</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">John Betsch </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">drums</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Milestones (M.Davis)<br />- Body And Soul (J.Green/R.Sour/E.Heyman/F.Eyton)<br />- So What (M.Davis)<br />- Caravan (D.Ellington/J.Tizol/I.Mills)</span><br />
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<span style="color: rgb(204 , 0 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">What is Jazz? Festival 1996</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">Knitting Factory Works (KFW 195)</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><br /></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-S_jhyphenhyphenITgZu7gW_-gTRAMtol9_KrUYORujRUpxJufavlIOQpxBc3tJUYjdHRIHJKBQe4EtrBTkr8ZhUqxh9KFTP2JD111M5kn2XVyHc6WyXwlw6IiZDfVH5ugwK-GNP4ceuutJA/s1600-h/whatisjazz.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441913656498473602" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-S_jhyphenhyphenITgZu7gW_-gTRAMtol9_KrUYORujRUpxJufavlIOQpxBc3tJUYjdHRIHJKBQe4EtrBTkr8ZhUqxh9KFTP2JD111M5kn2XVyHc6WyXwlw6IiZDfVH5ugwK-GNP4ceuutJA/s320/whatisjazz.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 316px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 320px;" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255 , 102 , 0);">Various Artists</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 102 , 0);"><br />CD only</span><br />New York, June 1996</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Horace Tapscott</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">piano</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Ray Drummond </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">bass</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Billy Hart</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">drums</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Caravan (D.Ellington/I.Mills/J.Tizol)</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(204 , 0 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Th</span><span style="color: rgb(204 , 0 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">oughts Of Dar Es Salaam</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">Arabesque Jazz (AJ0128)</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJSgTOPobfhHkK_PjJ557IkoW-GSJzBa_UIVqLOOHusSNmqNPJ_Yh4O9mNXIKGY8S_PRUlILGWxGcIDYWq6PmP7FMQP4tQaJyhUnV2FkI_2-FUYH_qWQ9DS_re6XfLGWPCcG6jZA/s1600-h/thoughts-of-dar-es-salaam.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441913661362373234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJSgTOPobfhHkK_PjJ557IkoW-GSJzBa_UIVqLOOHusSNmqNPJ_Yh4O9mNXIKGY8S_PRUlILGWxGcIDYWq6PmP7FMQP4tQaJyhUnV2FkI_2-FUYH_qWQ9DS_re6XfLGWPCcG6jZA/s320/thoughts-of-dar-es-salaam.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 318px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 320px;" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255 , 102 , 0);">CD only</span></span><br />New York, June 30 & July 1, 1996</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Horace Tapscott</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">piano</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Ray Drummond</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">bass</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Billy Hart </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">drums</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- As A Child (H.Tapscott)<br />- Bibi Mkuu : The Great Black Lady (A.Hines)<br />- Lullaby In Black (T.Greene)<br />- Sandy And Niles (H.Tapscott)<br />- Wiletta’s Walk (H.Tapscott)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">- Social Call (B.Qusim)<br />- Oleo (S.Rollins)<br />- Thoughts Of Dar Es Salaam (H.Tapscott)<br />- Now’s The Time (C.Parker)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(204 , 0 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 130%;">The Dark Tree</span><br /><span style="font-size: 100%;">Jazz And Community Arts In Los Angeles</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><br />University of California Press</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAs16VPkv6ee5QDiq9LTcdQV3qnccstcr6BSMv2bYwbzQT8B82v1VasCFzotEh3a3gn2CmKLDSXFpf-ufwpQuYGmzHpXpJ9fhad9DJ7eyZzwxL7NKcqfojhtTeJ_GdXgg0pM6w3Q/s1600-h/BOOK+dark+tree.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441916258098993186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAs16VPkv6ee5QDiq9LTcdQV3qnccstcr6BSMv2bYwbzQT8B82v1VasCFzotEh3a3gn2CmKLDSXFpf-ufwpQuYGmzHpXpJ9fhad9DJ7eyZzwxL7NKcqfojhtTeJ_GdXgg0pM6w3Q/s400/BOOK+dark+tree.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 400px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 265px;" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255 , 153 , 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255 , 102 , 0);">CD included with the book</span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Horace Tapscott</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">piano, conductor</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">William Marshall</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">lead vocal</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">The Voice of UGMAA</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">vocals</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">(Cynthia, Vernetta, Landern, Pat K, Linda Hill, Will Connell, Willie L, Scratch, Charles, Oscar)</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;">Los Angeles, December 2, 1969<br />- Tell God All Of My Troubles (From the For My People suite) (Traditional)</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Horace Tapscott</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">piano, conductor</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Edwin Pleasant</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">flute</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Chico Roberson</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">flute</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Ernest Straughter</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">flute</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Black Arthur Blythe</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">alto saxoph</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">o</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">ne</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Will Connell</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">alto saxoph</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">o</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">ne</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Cerion Middleton III</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">tenor saxoph</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">o</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">ne</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Ray Straughter</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> <span style="font-style: italic;">tenor</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;"> saxoph</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">o</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">ne</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Butch Morris</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">cornet</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Robert S</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">trombone</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">David Bryant</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">bass</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Walter Savage, Jr.</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">bass</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Jimmy Hoskins</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">drums</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Brother Eddie</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">conga</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Marcus Hill</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">pot</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span><br />Los Angeles, May 3, 1970<br />- Carnival (From music from King Christophe) (H.Tapscott)<br />- Waltz Time (From music from King Christophe) (H.Tapscott)<br />- Funeral (Later titled “Warriors All”, From music from King Christophe) (H.Tapscott)</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Aubrey Hart</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> <span style="font-style: italic;">piccolo</span></span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Adele Sebastian</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">flute</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Jesse Sharps</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">soprano saxophone</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Gary Bias</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">alto saxophone</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><br />Michael Session</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">alto saxophone</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Fuasi Abdul-Khaliq</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">tenor saxophone</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Charles Chandler</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">tenor saxophone</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Steve Smith</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">trumpet</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Lester Robertson</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">trombone</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Wendell C. Williams</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">french horn</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Red Callender</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">tuba</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Horace Tapscott</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">piano</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Linda Hill</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">piano</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">David Bryant</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">bass</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Marcus McLaurine</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">bass</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Ricky Simmons</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">drums</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Moises Obligacion</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">conga</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span><br />Los Angeles, January 24, 1976<br />- Eternal Egypt Suite, part 4 (F.Abdul-Khaliq)</span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Dwight Trible</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">vocal</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Michael Session</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">soprano, alto and tenor saxophones</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Thurman Green</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> <span style="font-style: italic;">trombone</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Horace Tapscott</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">piano</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Roberto Miranda</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: italic;">bass</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0 , 153 , 0); font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Fritz Wise</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> <span style="font-style: italic;">drums</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 85%;"><br />Hollywood, December 19, 20, 1995<br />- Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child (Traditional)<br />- Ballad For Deadwood Dick (H.Tapscott)<br />- Little Africa (L.Hill)</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span>bertrandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04478921099297575752noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24009309.post-1142546348507744082010-02-14T23:32:00.010+01:002010-04-13T11:46:51.480+02:00Horace Tapscott Discography (Sideman) - Update<span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:180%;" ><strong><br /></strong></span><div style="text-align: right; font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://bjazz.blogspot.com/2010/02/this-blog-which-has-been-started-in.html" target="blank"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">-> </span></a><a href="http://bjazz.blogspot.com/2010/02/this-blog-which-has-been-started-in.html" target="blank"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">INDEX</span><br /></a></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:180%;" ><strong></strong></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><b style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><br /><br /></b></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Peppy Prince<br /><i>Dance Party</i></b></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Dooto (DL 240)</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMtUQKmYxvNCZDSEntJcBp7c07dnEHcxPmMH09Rd2MgGoBe6shimoTRTgEkIV4ppOAT3tiUtZOKHugVMbrt8O2tlfKAFE6NN7e4fspDsayRcKzI77wS8MvsQMdTh93JqCdwGr48w/s1600-h/peppy-prince'.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 313px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMtUQKmYxvNCZDSEntJcBp7c07dnEHcxPmMH09Rd2MgGoBe6shimoTRTgEkIV4ppOAT3tiUtZOKHugVMbrt8O2tlfKAFE6NN7e4fspDsayRcKzI77wS8MvsQMdTh93JqCdwGr48w/s320/peppy-prince'.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444090721965136658" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">LP only</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >Los Angeles, 1956</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"> </span></span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:small;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">George Orendorff</span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:small;" > <i>trumpet</i></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:small;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"> </span></span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:small;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Dud Stone</span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:small;" > <i>trumpet</i></span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:small;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Joe Kelly </span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:small;" ><i>trumpet</i></span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:small;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Parker Berry</span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:small;" > <i>trombone, arranger</i></span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:small;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Horace Tapscott</span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:small;" > <i>trombone</i></span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:small;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Alfred Caspar</span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:small;" > <i>trombone</i></span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:small;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Chuck Waller</span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:small;" > <i>alto saxophone</i></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:small;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"> </span></span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:small;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Milton Hall</span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:small;" > <i>alto saxophone</i></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:small;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"> </span></span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:small;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Bill Ellis</span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:small;" > <i>tenor saxophone</i></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:small;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"> </span></span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:small;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Jimmie Evans</span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:small;" > <i>tenor saxophone</i></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-size:small;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-size:small;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Doug Finis</span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:small;" > <i>piano</i></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-size:small;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-size:small;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Russ Weathers</span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:small;" > <i>bass</i></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-size:small;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Peppy Prince</span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:small;" > <i>drums, vocals</i><br /></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:small;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Stan Jamerson</span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:small;"> <i>bongo</i></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">- It Must Have Been A Dream (Lawrence/Johnson/Hite/Silverman)<br />- Peppy’s Idea (L.Lovett)<br />- Medley:<br />Solitude (D.Ellington/E.DeLange/I.Mills)<br />I Cried For You (A.Freed/G.Arnheim/A.Lyman)<br />Penthouse Serenade (W.Jason/V.Burton)<br />- Sir Galahad (J.Stanford)<br />- Mean-Po-Gal (F.Smith)<br />- Ghost Of A Chance (F.Waxman)<br />- Dance Party (F.Smith)<br />- Diane (L.Pollack)<br />- Jack Pot (F.Smith)</span><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><b>Lou Blackburn<br /><i>Jazz Frontier</i></b></span><br /></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >Imperial (LP-9228)<br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIFOKiXsBar4VuHzQE-8Lo0aiG6xp2sa4rW0jkJNxdxP0tVSpeom3BCGI5FgZH2-Q_vZ4AKfvd3c0WhglWlQy-g5yKkwQ-hbuakFt7FC1gCo2mDG3I7zBV932II0w9sX0oFZMk1w/s1600-h/lou-blackburn_jazz-frontier.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 309px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIFOKiXsBar4VuHzQE-8Lo0aiG6xp2sa4rW0jkJNxdxP0tVSpeom3BCGI5FgZH2-Q_vZ4AKfvd3c0WhglWlQy-g5yKkwQ-hbuakFt7FC1gCo2mDG3I7zBV932II0w9sX0oFZMk1w/s320/lou-blackburn_jazz-frontier.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441920102814636050" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">CD reissues: Toshiba EMI (TOCJ-9644),</span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">The Complete Imperial Sessions</span> - Blue Note ((58294),</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><i><b>Perception</b></i></span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">– Fresh Sounds (FSR-CD 307),<br />NB: </span></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">The Complete Imperial Sessions</span> contains the previously unissued track:</span></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"> Ode To Taras (Unknown)<br />Hollywood, January 25 & 31, 1963<br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Lou Blackburn</span> </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><i>trombone<br /></i><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Freddie Hill</span> <i>trumpet</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Horace Tapscott</span> <i>piano</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">John Duke</span> <i>bass</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Leroy Henderson</span> <i>drums</i><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">- Harlem Bossa-Nova (L.Blackburn)<br />- New Frontier (L.Blackburn)<br />- Perception (L.Blackburn)<br />- Luze Bluze (L.Blackburn)<br />- I Cover The Waterfront (Green/Heyman)<br />- 17 Richmond Park (L.Blackburn)<br />- The Clan (C.Fuller)<br />- Scorpio (L.Blackburn)</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">- Jazz-A-Nova (L.Blackburn)<br />- Stella By Starlight (V.Young/N.Washington)<br /></span><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Lou Blackburn<br /><i>Two Note Samba</i></span></b></span><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Imperial (LP-9242)<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnovd422hIqIczrBTyWBIvEcSAIT3mz537riRWwjklCu0SVWDHiVJqcQ-Zllra0u_14GarljvYzaxV8Timly9QhePZuAMjoK1Jr5PPxxuI3_4bi4K4MZ8zLpgDWI6hrFmQHl214g/s1600-h/lou-blackburn_two-note-samb.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 309px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnovd422hIqIczrBTyWBIvEcSAIT3mz537riRWwjklCu0SVWDHiVJqcQ-Zllra0u_14GarljvYzaxV8Timly9QhePZuAMjoK1Jr5PPxxuI3_4bi4K4MZ8zLpgDWI6hrFmQHl214g/s320/lou-blackburn_two-note-samb.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441920108851123250" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />CD reissues: <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">The Complete Imperial Sessions</span> - Blue Note ((58294),</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><i><b>Perception</b></i></span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">– Fresh Sounds (FSR-CD 307),<br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">NB: </span></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">The Complete Imperial Sessions</span> contains the previously unissued track:</span></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"> Ode To Taras (Unknown)</span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br />Hollywood, January 31, March 12 & 18, 1963<br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Lou Blackburn</span> <i>trombone</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Freddie Hill</span> </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><i>trumpet<br /></i><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Horace Tapscott</span> </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><i>piano<br /></i><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">John Duke</span> <i>bass</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Leroy Henderson</span> <i>drums</i><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">- Manha De Carnaval (L.Bonfa)<br />- Jean-Bleu (L.Blackburn)<br />- Blues For Eurydice (L.Bl</span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">ackburn)<br />- Grand Prix (L.Blackburn)<br />- Two-Note Samba (L.Blackburn)<br />- Song Of Delilah (J.Livingston/R.Evans)<br />- Dear Old Stockholm (Traditional)<br />- Secret Love (S.Fain/P.F.Webster)</span><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Lou Rawls<br /><i>Tobacco Road</i></span></b></span><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Capitol (T 2042)<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjztHMaifVC6O17gDAETfvSAxybQRQKV3tgjn_o5CQCidY1iHca1-0bOBLUyqfwvyTx3sYZAxjC5XVxZeYWGutL3TwqleEiB86L04-RoYcgKQ4EtZIfrUySBBzJV8f9CmiHgyQjjw/s1600-h/lou-rawls.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 309px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjztHMaifVC6O17gDAETfvSAxybQRQKV3tgjn_o5CQCidY1iHca1-0bOBLUyqfwvyTx3sYZAxjC5XVxZeYWGutL3TwqleEiB86L04-RoYcgKQ4EtZIfrUySBBzJV8f9CmiHgyQjjw/s320/lou-rawls.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441920112799619762" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />CD reissue: Capitol Jazz (B2-54957),</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">also contains the album</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Black and Blue</span></span><br />Los Angeles, July-August 1963</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Lou Rawls</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">vocals</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Bobby Bryant</span> <i>trumpet</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Bud Brisbois</span> </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><i>trumpet</i></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Bob Rolfe</span> </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><i>trumpet</i></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">James Dalton Smith</span> </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><i>trumpet</i></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Freddie Hill</span> </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><i>trumpet</i></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Ollie Mitchell</span> </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><i>trumpet</i></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Horace Tapscott</span> <i>trombo</i></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><i>ne</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Lou Blackburn</span> <i>trombone</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Richard Hyde</span> <i>trombone</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Ronald Smith</span> <i>trombone</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Clifford Scott</span> <i></i></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><i>alto </i></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><i>saxophone</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Sonny Criss</span> <i></i></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><i></i></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><i>alto </i></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><i>saxophone</i></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><i></i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Curtis Amy</span> </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><i>tenor </i></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><i>saxophone</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Clifford Solomon</span> </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><i>tenor </i></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><i>saxophone</i></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><i></i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Teddy Edwards</span> </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><i>tenor </i></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><i>saxophone</i></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><i></i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Jay Migliori</span> <i></i></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><i>baritone </i></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><i>saxophone</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Onzy Matthews</span> <i>piano, arranger</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Rene Hall</span> <i>guitar</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Ray Crawford</span> <i>guitar</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Jim Crutcher</span> <i>bass</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Charles “Chiz” Harris</span> </span><i><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">drums<br /></span></i><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">- Tobacco Road (J.D.Loudermilk)<br />- Cotton Fields (H.Ledbetter)<br />- Rockin’ Chair (H.Carmichae</span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">l)<br />- Stormy Weather (H.Arlen/T.Koehler)<br />- Ol’ Man River (J.Kern/O.Hammerstein II)<br />- Blues For A Four String Guitar (M.David/E.Bernstein)<br />- St. Louis Blues (W.C.Handy)<br />- Georgia On My Mind (H.Carmichael/S.Gorrell)<br />- Sentimental Journey (Brown/Homer/Green)<br />- Summertime (G.Gershwin)</span><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Onzy Matthews<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Blues with a Touch of Elegance</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br />Capitol (ST 2099)<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsuRCxwHi3Q8z3xtP4jhpmyIW7z7mKGfTrFwum-JBReIx_gDW-Fh5474jnHjYI3VXhjYxwImAUsAurbDyRnkV-mQK_p5O8lx_53XAVnlYXPSV-pS7CIg0PeTVKnoOYlFCIS3Mgrw/s1600-h/onzy-matthews.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsuRCxwHi3Q8z3xtP4jhpmyIW7z7mKGfTrFwum-JBReIx_gDW-Fh5474jnHjYI3VXhjYxwImAUsAurbDyRnkV-mQK_p5O8lx_53XAVnlYXPSV-pS7CIg0PeTVKnoOYlFCIS3Mgrw/s320/onzy-matthews.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441922492335377634" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />CD reissue: Mosaic Select (MS-029),</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">also contains the album</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Sounds for the ‘60’s!</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">,<br />plus previously unissued tracks</span><br />Los Angeles, January 2 & 3, 1964</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Bud Brisbois </span><span style="font-style: italic;">trumpet</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Bobby Bryant</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">trumpet</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Freddie Hill</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">trumpet</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Bob Rolfe</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">trumpet</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">James Dalton Smith</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">trumpet</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Lou Blackburn</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">trombone</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Dick Hyde</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">trombone</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Horace Tapscott</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">trombone</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Ronald Smith</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">bass</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">trombone</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Clifford Scott</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">alto saxophone</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Sid Miller </span><span style="font-style: italic;">alto saxophone</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Curtis Amy</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">tenor saxophone</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Clifford Solomon</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">tenor saxophone</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Jay Migliori </span><span style="font-style: italic;">baritone saxophone</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Onzy Matthews</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">piano, arranger</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Ray Crawford</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">guitar</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Jim Crutcher</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">bass</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Charles “Chiz” Harris</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">drums</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">- Satin Doll (D.Ellington/B.Strayhorn)<br />- Blues Non-Stop (O.Matthews)<br />- Somethin's Cookin' (O.Matthews)<br />- Flamingo (T.Grouya/E.Anderson)<br />- Pensive (O.Matthews)<br />- Dallas Blues (O.Matthews)<br />- I Should Care (A.Stordhal/P.Weston/S.Cahn)<br />- I Cover The Waterfront (J.Green/E.Heyman)<br />- Feels Like I've Got The Blues (O.Matthews)<br />- Blues With A Touch Of Elegance (O.Matthews)<br /></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Curtis Amy<br /><i>The Sounds Of Broadway / The Sounds Of Hollywood</i></span></b></span><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Palomar (G 2400)<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJrCQhrrhsok0C5rhNUuiUfHcJ7LhcRanqmP_K5Wo8r61Bjw2ywzc0ddRW8_p6lwoYC3t_jnV8V1vv6i5Krd0lTwOYt41ynxMKINPVNZttrE-GqK4lO0jAFRekQWComONC09AJNw/s1600-h/curtis-amy.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 311px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJrCQhrrhsok0C5rhNUuiUfHcJ7LhcRanqmP_K5Wo8r61Bjw2ywzc0ddRW8_p6lwoYC3t_jnV8V1vv6i5Krd0lTwOYt41ynxMKINPVNZttrE-GqK4lO0jAFRekQWComONC09AJNw/s320/curtis-amy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441922491344586706" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />LP only<br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Hollywood, 1965<br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Curtis Amy</span> <i>soprano and tenor saxophones</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Warren Gale, Jr.</span> <i>trumpet</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Lester Robertson</span> <i>trombone</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Horace Tapscott</span> </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><i>piano<br /></i><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Eddie Mathias</span> <i>bass</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Mel Lee</span> </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><i>drums<br /></i><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Onzy Matthews</span> <i>arranger</i><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">- Goldfinger (Barry/Bricusse/Newley)<br />- Get Me To The Church On Time (Lerner/Loewe)<br />- Dear Heart (Mancini/Livingston/Evans)<br />- Spoonful Of Sugar (R.&R.Sherman)<br />- Love Line (Marks)<br />- Fiddler On The Roof (Bock/Harnick)<br />- Now I Have Everything (Bock/Harnick)<br />- Of Human Bondage (Goodwin)<br />- Sunrise, Sunset (Bock/Harnick)<br />- Guess Who I Saw Today (Boyd/Grand)</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">The Sonny Criss Orchestra<br /><i>Sonny’s Dream (Birth Of The New Cool)</i></span></b></span><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Prestige (PR 7576)<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNrLNEJiWe5Qp09ilt8vR-V7POwIwILYvyzV7oIkEfOhk_PHr6_FrstudzoVQLy4ldqTQogpLdHMXWhKm12eAS14ofuHbBFqnZuqjmpGyeOOb-hqJllsgZxxpZfn-EpJeu1yuFsg/s1600-h/sonny-criss.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 311px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNrLNEJiWe5Qp09ilt8vR-V7POwIwILYvyzV7oIkEfOhk_PHr6_FrstudzoVQLy4ldqTQogpLdHMXWhKm12eAS14ofuHbBFqnZuqjmpGyeOOb-hqJllsgZxxpZfn-EpJeu1yuFsg/s320/sonny-criss.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441922497989332562" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />CD reissue: Prestige/OJC (OJCCD-707-2),<br />* alternate takes<br /></span>Los Angeles, May 8, 1968<br /></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Sonny Criss</span> </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><i>alto and soprano</i></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><i> saxophones</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">David Sherr</span> <i>alto saxophone</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Teddy Edwards</span> </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><i>tenor saxophone<br /></i><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Pete Christlieb</span> <i>baritone saxophone</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Conte Candoli</span> </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><i>trumpet<br /></i><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Dick Nash</span> <i>trombone </i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Ray Draper</span> <i>tuba </i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Tommy Flanagan</span> <i>piano </i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Al McKibbon</span> <i>bass </i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Everett Brown, Jr.</span> <i>drums </i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Horace Tapscott</span> </span><i><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">conductor, arranger<br /></span></i><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">- Sonny’s Dream (H.Tapscott)<br />- Ballad For Samuel (H.Tapscott)<br />- The Black Apostles (H.Tapscott)<br />- The Golden Pearl (H.Tapscott)<br />- Daughter Of Cochise (H.Tapscott)<br />- Sandy And Niles (H.Tapscott)<br />- The Golden Pearl (H.Tapscott) *<br />- Sonny’s Dream (H.Tapscott) *</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><b>Bob Thiele Emergency<br /><i>Head Start</i></b></span><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Flying Dutchman (FDS-104)<br /></span></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjyC2y93ZaD_oCGFBinEWG3NpZDJVQOWuGX7O6DQcNR5JzFkAiYGULHfdkHPnfraIEkCXY5NYhBJAabVP8CtPANwZouWBHV5mbg7wCcyeJxOzUOfUGlRKXVKbaXIvSgyJczGuhiQ/s1600-h/bob-thiele.front.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 317px;" 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src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3GJ5HyCRWcx4GXXEuAcVPdIbpDkg0lDPpD8pntywOJrPI3KMdViFT5jm1YuHNUL4cNvosdAXHMy_IK3fvbT53ANGLCcUSRlZy1U5AAlz6jfBGnqzRm8hvAHXV-5msmgliQKJDjg/s320/bob-thiele.back.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441938997878754386" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><br />LP only</span></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />Los Angeles, 1969<br /></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Buddy C</span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">hilders</span> <i>trumpet</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Paul Hubinon</span> <i>trumpet</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Gary Barone</span> <i>trumpet</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Bob Brookmeyer</span> <i>trombone</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Mike Barone</span> <i>trombone</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">George Bohanon</span> </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><i>trombone<br /></i><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Ernie Tack</span> </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><i>bass trombone<br /></i><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Bob Henderson</span> <i>french horn </i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Tom Scott</span> </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><i>clarinet, alto saxophone<br /></i><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Bill Perkins</span> <i>alto saxophone, flutes</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Pete Christlieb</span> <i>tenor saxophone, flutes</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Jim Horn</span> </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><i>baritone saxophone, oboe, flute, </i></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><i>clarinet<br /></i></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Roger Kellaway</span> </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><i>piano, organ, harpsychord, celesta<br /></i><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Howard Roberts</span> <i>guitars</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Chuck Domanico</span> <i>fender bass, bass</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Jimmy Gordon</span> <i>drums, timbales</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">John Guerin</span> <i>drums, timbales</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Gary Coleman</span> <i>percussions </i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">George “Harmonica” Smith</span> <i>vocals</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Joe Pass</span> <i>guitar</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Bernard Carrere</span> </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><i>trumpet<br /></i><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Joe Darensbourg</span> <i>clarinet</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">John Ewing</span> </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><i>trombone<br /></i><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Alton Purnell</span> <i>piano </i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Joe Passalaque</span> <i>bass</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Alton Redd</span> </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><i>drums<br /></i><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">John Carter</span> <i>tenor saxophone</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Bobby Bradford</span> <i>trumpet</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Horace Tapscott</span> <i>piano </i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Tom Williamson</span> <i>bass</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Buzz Freeman</span> <i>drums</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Elvin Jones</span> <i>drums</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Joe Farrell</span> <i>flute</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Wilbur Little</span> bass<br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Rosko </span><i>vocals</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Ornette Coleman</span> </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><i>alto saxophone<br /></i><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Charles Moffett</span> <i>drums</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">David Izenzon</span> </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><i>bass<br /></i><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Charlie Haden</span> </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><i>bass<br /></i><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Bob Thiele</span> <i>vocals </i><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">- Head Start (T.Scott)<br />- Freaky Zeke (T.Scott)<br />- Beatle Ballads (J.Lennon/P.McCartney)<br />- Lanoola Goes Limp (J.Chaikin/M.Hardy/E.Sander)<br />The Jazz Story<br />- Part 1.Pickin’ Taters Blues (E.Marrow/J.R.Rein)<br />- Part 2.Oh Didn’t He Ramble (Traditional)<br />- High Society (P.Steele/W.Melrose)<br />- Part 3.Jungle Sound (T.Scott)<br />- Part 4.Swing Era (T.Scott)<br />- Part 5.Be Bop (T.Scott)<br />- Part 6.In The Vineyard (T.Scott)<br />- Avant Garde (J.Carter)<br />Dedication To John Coltrane<br />- A.Lament For John Coltrane (E.Jones/J.Farrell/W.Little)<br />- B.A Love Supreme (J.Coltrane)<br />- C.Holiday For A Graveyard (O.Coleman)<br />-A few Thoughts For The Day (Biafra, King, John and Robert, The American Indian) (T.Scott/J.Appleton/B.Thiele) </span><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">David T. Walker<br /><i>Going Up!</i></span></span></b></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Revue (RS 7211)<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVsqLOtQsi77OsgTWHq0dm-tZZUJ0GC20fLGs6C4l2jSk82xISdFocqDOf4ZraZSDeCvT-NYufTh1MMeKQAMXodDfckDYQdInWJuNuYWPnlun_G5vh113iZz6eHQCMK4x0L5pluQ/s1600-h/david-t-walker'.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 312px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVsqLOtQsi77OsgTWHq0dm-tZZUJ0GC20fLGs6C4l2jSk82xISdFocqDOf4ZraZSDeCvT-NYufTh1MMeKQAMXodDfckDYQdInWJuNuYWPnlun_G5vh113iZz6eHQCMK4x0L5pluQ/s400/david-t-walker'.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441944527444824450" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />CD reissue: P-Vine (PCD-1324),<br />* previously unissued track</span><br />Los Angeles, mai 1969</span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">David T. Walker</span> <i>guitar</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Joe Sample</span> <i>piano</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Horace Tapscott</span> <i>piano</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Tracy Wright</span> <i>bass</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Panama Francis</span> <i>percussions, drums</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Richard Waters</span> <i>drums</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Melvin Jernigan</span> <i>arranger</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">David Blumberg</span> <i>arranger</i><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">- Can I Change My Mind (Despense/Wolfolk)<br />- My Baby Loves Me (Hunter/Moy/Stevenson)<br />- Since You’ve Been Gone (Baby, Baby, Sweet Baby) (Franklin/White)<br />- I’m Going To Make You Love Me (Gamble/Ross/Williams)<br />- Medley : You Don’t Know What Love Is (DePaul/Raye)<br />This Guy’s In Love With You (Bacharach/David)<br />- Stormy (Buie/Cobb)<br />- Bad Bad Whiskey (Davis/Dayhs)<br />- Going Up (Walker)<br />- Tip Toe Through The Tulips With Me (Burke/Dubin)<br />- Watch Out, Dynamite (Walker)<br />- Baby I Need Your Loving (Dozier/Holland) *</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Elaine Brown<br /><i>Seize The Time</i></span></b></span><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Vault (131)<br /></span></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitmk1QA_Wsqufcf1nFnUmgGVERPRiAISGpKqJT3EyNOda3ZmzPcVaVOcUXXIpk1BoEn5RjKMsys-bHb9DldGi8_Qt6Dl0oV9M4Grn8-GxSoRCyaRGChvzhB0-y0h0IE_bhHCsfEg/s1600-h/elaine-brown_seize-the-time.front.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 311px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitmk1QA_Wsqufcf1nFnUmgGVERPRiAISGpKqJT3EyNOda3ZmzPcVaVOcUXXIpk1BoEn5RjKMsys-bHb9DldGi8_Qt6Dl0oV9M4Grn8-GxSoRCyaRGChvzhB0-y0h0IE_bhHCsfEg/s320/elaine-brown_seize-the-time.front.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441939003617603010" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><br /><br /><br /></span></span></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgak2taz01d-3OliiiNCO59rjaGcXqPTK3qQdZJ5IFhaLIl9uXMK-liDRIGz9YdeP1KzguvIqQpqZGwIQNHm1DuzZ12ktwb4sLXMSX46vLGm71kgjREVd_QaWIGm3hhJ5OxVwDqBQ/s1600-h/elaine-brown_seize-the-time.back.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 305px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgak2taz01d-3OliiiNCO59rjaGcXqPTK3qQdZJ5IFhaLIl9uXMK-liDRIGz9YdeP1KzguvIqQpqZGwIQNHm1DuzZ12ktwb4sLXMSX46vLGm71kgjREVd_QaWIGm3hhJ5OxVwDqBQ/s320/elaine-brown_seize-the-time.back.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441939006515516770" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">CD reissue: Water (water183)</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Hollywood, early 70s<br /></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Elaine Brown</span> <i>vocals </i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Horace Tapscott</span> <i>piano, arranger</i><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">- Seize The Time (E.Brown)<br />- The Panther (E.Brown)<br />- And All Stood By (E.Brown)<br />- The End Of Silence (E.Brown)<br />- The Meeting (The Black Panther Party National Anthem) (E.Brown)<br />- Very Black Man (E.Brown)<br />- Take It Away (E.Brown)<br />- One Time (E.Brown)<br />- Assassination (E.Brown)<br /></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">- Poppa’s Come Home (E.Brown)<br /></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Elaine Brown<br /><i>Elaine </i></span></b></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><i>Brown</i></span></b></span><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Black Forum (BF 458L)<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0dJR7V-BxQcejhd7OPXbJIY8rUrw6ySVYLlrsKUm-6EB7JfjprXkkiI2gdw7xn1APd8zr4itYO0vqD-swudW02WLbj1M0FiMdaB-34hPJbmMTuNBTQ2HKZyihM5t0uIOC-p2LIg/s1600-h/elaine-brown.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 308px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0dJR7V-BxQcejhd7OPXbJIY8rUrw6ySVYLlrsKUm-6EB7JfjprXkkiI2gdw7xn1APd8zr4itYO0vqD-swudW02WLbj1M0FiMdaB-34hPJbmMTuNBTQ2HKZyihM5t0uIOC-p2LIg/s320/elaine-brown.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441938338124747698" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />LP only</span><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Hollywood, 1973<br /></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Elaine Brown</span> <i>vocals</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Horace Tapscott</span> <i>arranger </i><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">- No Time (E.Brown)<br />- Jonathan (E.Brown)<br />- Can’t Go Back (E.Brown)<br />- All The Young And Fine Men (E.Brown)<br />- Until We’re Free (E.Brown)<br />- I Know Who You Are (E.Brown)<br />- Child In The World (E.Brown)<br />- A Little Baby (E.Brown)<br />- And We Shall Meet Again (E.Brown)<br /></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Billie Harris<br /><i>I Want Some Water</i></span></b></span><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Nimbus West (NS 510 C)<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLkakZ4M7W3QE3oP6T9Hjn4qPlsskg5kcHfHu7YfCSgbuNpH-WVhuauiGHy0aRb6Nn-Y9nAK04vwP3VUayq1i57Tofw3PVdNApHeXPjjzCdT8UaekQyPnaVQM1nFr1c-A_KwLWVg/s1600-h/billie-harris.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 316px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLkakZ4M7W3QE3oP6T9Hjn4qPlsskg5kcHfHu7YfCSgbuNpH-WVhuauiGHy0aRb6Nn-Y9nAK04vwP3VUayq1i57Tofw3PVdNApHeXPjjzCdT8UaekQyPnaVQM1nFr1c-A_KwLWVg/s320/billie-harris.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441938339577208098" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">CD only,</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">* & ** previously unissued tracks:</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">* by the Pan-Afrikan Peoples Arkestra </span></span></span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">(from the</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Live at </span></span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;color:red;" ><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">the I.U.C.C.</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">sessions)</span></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">,</span><br />** solo piano by Horace Tapscott (probably from </span></span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Tapscott Sessions</span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">)</span></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><br /></span>Los Angeles, 1983<br /></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Billie Harris</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">reeds</span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><i><br /></i><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Horace Tapscott</span> <i>piano </i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">David Bryant</span> <i>bass </i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Everett Brown, Jr.</span> <i>drums</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Daa’oud Woods</span> <i>percussions</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Lorelei</span> <i>vocals </i><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">- Prayer Of Happiness (B.Harris)<br />- I Want Some Water (B.Harris)<br />- The Advocate (B.Harris)<br />- Blues For Lupé (B.Harris)<br />- Many Nights Ago (C.Crunk) *<br />- Why Don’t You Listen? (H.Tapscott) **<br /></span></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><b><span style="font-size:130%;">J</span></b></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">esse Sharps<br /><i>Sharps And Flats</i></span></b></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Nimbus West (NS 3702 C)<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-LcWl7YgB3b539k41CMAyOOPJuWM2SpitPmwD35tPK1L3Tn_516tKl3eQbFNyS4O6_UZ7s8yuvCM6mCPeyH_JMh7h3qHSPWhfzCPQhjdRRe4SGzSCHQVpI-czIUKmP4McWAseQA/s1600-h/jesse-sharps.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-LcWl7YgB3b539k41CMAyOOPJuWM2SpitPmwD35tPK1L3Tn_516tKl3eQbFNyS4O6_UZ7s8yuvCM6mCPeyH_JMh7h3qHSPWhfzCPQhjdRRe4SGzSCHQVpI-czIUKmP4McWAseQA/s320/jesse-sharps.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441938344109289138" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />CD only,<br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">* previously unreleased track by the Pan-Afrikan Peoples Arkestra </span></span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">(from the</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Live at </span></span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;color:red;" ><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">the I.U.C.C.</span> </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">sessions)</span></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><i><br /></i></span>Los Angeles, 1985<br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Jesse Sharps</span> <i>reeds</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Steve Smith </span><i>trumpet</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Nate Morgan</span> <i>piano</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Horace Tapscott</span> <i>piano</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Joel Ector</span> <i>bass</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Carl Burnett</span> <i>drums</i><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">- The Goat And Ram Jam (J.Sharps)<br />- Question (J.Sharps)<br />- Macramé (J.Sharps)<br />- Mike’s Tune (J.Sharps)<br />- As A Child (H.Tapscott)<br />- Carnival (J.Sharps)<br />- McKowsky’s First Fifth (J.Sharps) *</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><b>Michael Session<br /><i>‘N Session</i></b></span><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">ITM Pacific (ITMP 970074)<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9AbE_n3mwj4qsG8o-tummEhizw0VJJ2EExNJZLlPcErrJJljeVyfUUvU6lI7HudAdeQPO7_F2bir2BDPO7XvxZ8onY0JitNbI8svm9b4vI9_Dq_8onizT_ObZhLjg8q5k2vbiJw/s1600-h/michael-session.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 317px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9AbE_n3mwj4qsG8o-tummEhizw0VJJ2EExNJZLlPcErrJJljeVyfUUvU6lI7HudAdeQPO7_F2bir2BDPO7XvxZ8onY0JitNbI8svm9b4vI9_Dq_8onizT_ObZhLjg8q5k2vbiJw/s320/michael-session.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441938349979595362" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />CD only<br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Hollywood, March 24, 1990<br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Michael Session</span> <i>saxophones, vocals</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Steve Smith</span> <i>trumpet</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Jon Williams</span> <i>trumpet </i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Nate Morgan</span> <i>piano</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Horace Tapscott</span> <i>piano</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Henry Franklin</span> </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><i>bass<br /></i><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Sunship Theus</span> <i>drums</i><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">- Quagmire Manor At Five A.M. (M.Session)<br />- Bavarian Mist (M.Session)<br />- Short Stop (M.Session)<br />- UMATU (M.Session)<br />- No Cash (M.Session)<br />- Lately’s Solo (Milestones) (H.Tapscott)<br />- Maud’s Mood (H.Tapscott)</span><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><b>Nelly Pouget<br /><i>Le Vivre</i></b></span><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Minuit Regards (LH 27292)<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT6e8Y0JQjvWujBoQEzNK1WZTcObxlZJEsbZXuKdIUswT-FFwNbZzG7qb282LgIV4Wb2PVxhCa8Tu2E2t5wvFn3Ta4vbrPg3DDZhwmmf3LBIQWZyDaxoela5BKB9O5fcUFdUSOiQ/s1600-h/nelly-pouget.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 319px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT6e8Y0JQjvWujBoQEzNK1WZTcObxlZJEsbZXuKdIUswT-FFwNbZzG7qb282LgIV4Wb2PVxhCa8Tu2E2t5wvFn3Ta4vbrPg3DDZhwmmf3LBIQWZyDaxoela5BKB9O5fcUFdUSOiQ/s320/nelly-pouget.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441941504083948050" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />CD & LP<br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">* </span></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">CD only<br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Paris, November 18 & 19, 1993</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Nelly Pouget</span> <i>soprano and tenor saxophones</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Horace Tapscott</span> <i>piano </i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Kent Carter</span> </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><i>bass<br /></i><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Andrew Cyrille</span> <i>drums</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Michel Godard</span> </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><i>tuba, snake<br /></i><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Jean-François Jenny-Clark</span> <i>bass</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Gérard Siracusa</span> <i>percussions </i><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">- Le Vivre (N.Pouget)<br />- Minuit Regards (N.Pouget)<br />- Bébé Ange (N.Pouget) *<br />- Les Poissons (N.Pouget)<br />- Douceur (N.Pouget) *<br />- Humoristique (N.Pouget) *<br />- Amour Ange Ange Amour (N.Pouget)<br />- Nina Bébé (N.Pouget)<br />- Variations De Clartés (N.Pouget) *<br /></span></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Project Blowed<br /><i>Project Blowed</i></span></b></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">A-Team/Afterlife<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj89-8fw0V3QnHCRqysxSb8tqeddEPsn-eMs97-NR_rpoCbe72f8W2kNhB14NJWpv917vuPUvzGgZSoaGNJZo6n9qsqJhSb7gskP10kdqqEHxkLmHUAN6t3_5WZZig79Om6YTSE9A/s1600-h/project-blowed'.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj89-8fw0V3QnHCRqysxSb8tqeddEPsn-eMs97-NR_rpoCbe72f8W2kNhB14NJWpv917vuPUvzGgZSoaGNJZo6n9qsqJhSb7gskP10kdqqEHxkLmHUAN6t3_5WZZig79Om6YTSE9A/s400/project-blowed'.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441943855735284322" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />CD & LP<br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Los Angeles, 1994<br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Aceyalone</span> <i>vocals</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Self Jupiter</span> <i>vocals</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Mikah Nine</span> <i>vocals</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Peace</span> <i>vocals</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Michael Hunter</span> <i>trumpet</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Michael Rubin</span> <i>saxophones</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Randall Willis</span> </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><i>tenor saxophone<br /></i><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Horace Tapscott</span> <i>piano</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Nedra Wheeler</span> <i>bass</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">JMD </span><i>drums</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Abstract Rude </span><span style="color:white;"><i>voix</i></span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">A.C. </span><span style="color:white;"><i>voix</i></span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">B </span><span style="color:white;"><i>voix</i></span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Ganjah K</span> <i>vocals</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Nefertiti</span> <i>vocals</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">T-Love</span> <i>vocals</i> </span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Jurassick (Aceyalone/Spoon Iodine)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Who's There (Self Jupiter)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Strenght of A.T.U. (Abstract Rude)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- What A Pity (C.V.E.)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Don't Get It Twisted (Figures Of Speech)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Hot (Freestyle Fellowship)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Once Upon A Freak (Tray Loc)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Beautiful Day In The Neighborood (Dolla Holla)</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">- Solo Is So Low (DK Toon/B/Cartoon)</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">- This Evening</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">- Heavyweights Round 2 (Peace/T-Love/A.C./Nefertiti/BJ)</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">- Funky Commercial Break (Funky Trend)</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">- Second Chance</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">- I Don't Know (Abstract Rude/Aceyalone)</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">- Yeh Man (Abstract Rude)</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">- Narcolepsy (C.V.E.)</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">- I Think (Aceyalone)</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">- Maskaraid Part, Pts. 1-2 (Abstract Rude/Aceyalone)</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">- Treble And Bass (Aceyalone/Abstract Rude)<br /></span></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Mikah 9<br /><i>Timetable</i></span></b></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Meanstreet (0535)</span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQt1n8qe5vsWXIesfqdmuWiI17Juq1KQGLLA-C4TBzZJRKMg1_LITodIKiibW8zI0qdwlG0vM_JQnKFEqLgVE0o1Fs2ikGrkVpRYhyBQ2_cC_W-noR61ERhQ5ry4kEY12RVM7gMQ/s1600-h/mikah-9'.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 312px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQt1n8qe5vsWXIesfqdmuWiI17Juq1KQGLLA-C4TBzZJRKMg1_LITodIKiibW8zI0qdwlG0vM_JQnKFEqLgVE0o1Fs2ikGrkVpRYhyBQ2_cC_W-noR61ERhQ5ry4kEY12RVM7gMQ/s400/mikah-9'.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441944532601588642" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Los Angeles, 90s</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Mikah 9</span> <i>vocals</i></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Randall Willis</span> <i>tenor saxophone</i></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Tom Ralls</span> <i>trombone</i></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Onaje Murray</span> <i>vibes</i></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Horace Tapscott</span> <i>piano</i></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Marvin McDaniel</span> <i>guitar</i></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Nedra Wheeler</span> <i>bass</i></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Don Littleton</span> <i>percussions</i></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Kevin O’Neal</span> <i>arranger</i></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Aceyalone</span> <i>vocals</i></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Self Jupiter</span> <i>vocals</i></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Peace</span> <i>vocals</i> </span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Let's Fly </span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Breath Control </span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Black Man Swing </span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Ultra Bap </span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Darkleaf/U.N.I.T.Y. Committee Party, Pt. 1 </span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Danger </span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Way Cool Acapella </span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Free Energy </span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- We Came From Beyond, Pt. 1 </span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Life Or Death </span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Island Acapella, Pt. 1 </span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Park Bench People (Alternate Version) </span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Speechless </span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Darkleaf/U.N.I.T.Y. Committee Party, Pt. 2 </span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- What You See Is What You Get </span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- American Nightmare </span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Wake Up Show Freestyle </span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Said To The Beach </span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Darkleaf/U.N.I.T.Y. Committee Party, Pt. 3 </span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- We Came From Beyond, Pt. 2 </span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Fruit Don't Fall... </span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Island Acapella, Pt. 2 </span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">- First Things Last</span> </span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Watts Prophets<br /><i>When The 90’s Came</i></span></b></span><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Payday/FFRR/AcidJazz (JAZID CD 166)<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK5drDtuEdCrSw_SxskgIFBd3LY6cmsIcr0CgX-HH8G77zfMz9qmDH4tEsYWpCDL0K5zuDIsZdT54udb5leG8e9LUNaffU8waUkbLZccPKln0YccmAsx-QAavktrjSmE9ECI-RrQ/s1600-h/watts-prophets.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 318px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK5drDtuEdCrSw_SxskgIFBd3LY6cmsIcr0CgX-HH8G77zfMz9qmDH4tEsYWpCDL0K5zuDIsZdT54udb5leG8e9LUNaffU8waUkbLZccPKln0YccmAsx-QAavktrjSmE9ECI-RrQ/s320/watts-prophets.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441942608655517122" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Los Angeles, 1996<br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Richard Dedeaux</span> <i>vocals</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Anthony “Amde” Hamilton</span> <i>vocals</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Otis O’Solomon</span> <i>vocals</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Damu Vucha</span> <i>flute</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Horace Tapscott</span> <i>piano</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Rob Bacon</span> <i>guitar, bass, piano</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">DJ Quick</span> <i>drums</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Damu</span> <i>harmonica</i><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">- When The 90’s Came (A.Hamilton)<br />- Hey World (O.O’Solomon/G.E.Bradshaw)<br />- The Law / Doin Everyday The Hard Way (A.Hamilton/O.O’Solomon/X.Mosley)<br />- Me Today You Tomorrow (A.Hamilton/R.Michael/B.Marley)<br />- Everybody Watches (R.Dedeaux/Stan B.)<br />- Breed What You Need (A.Hamilton/H.Tapscott)<br />- Trippin (A.Hamilton/DJ Quick)<br />- Searchin (A.Hamilton/G.Wilkinson/J.Hawkins)<br />- Nothin New (R.Dedeaux/Stan B.)<br />- I Remember Watts (R.Dedeaux)<br />- Family Nest (A.Hamilton/H.Tapscott)<br />- Free Geronimo (R.Dedeaux/A.Hamilton/O.O’Solomon/D.Vusha)<br />- Public Enemy Number One (O.O’Solomon)<br />- I’ll Stop Callin You Niggaz (A.Hamilton)<br />- While Growing Up (O.O’Solomon)<br />- Freedom Flame (R.Dedeaux)<br />- Hongry For Your Love (O.O’Solomon)<br />- In Pain I View (O.O’Solomon)<br />- Vanity (O.O’Solomon)<br />- When The 90’s Came (Acapella) (A.Hamilton)</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><b><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Kamau Daaood<br /><i>Leimert Park</i></span></b></span><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">MAMA Foundation (MMF 1019)<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqtjhkyOAIOmluH4Ngsd03XYB213AwRa3EfexDfU5pFx-zcCWllJkZcNEHGYE0FH_qaJqt7QnsgR2r8UtYAWu9XCoLiuqrbLUFJ7E1wsAGnVOhF9U6Ym-eaI2mgBn3XyKnvlG29g/s1600-h/kamau-daaood.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 319px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqtjhkyOAIOmluH4Ngsd03XYB213AwRa3EfexDfU5pFx-zcCWllJkZcNEHGYE0FH_qaJqt7QnsgR2r8UtYAWu9XCoLiuqrbLUFJ7E1wsAGnVOhF9U6Ym-eaI2mgBn3XyKnvlG29g/s320/kamau-daaood.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441942339053619122" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />CD only<br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Los Angeles, February-April, 1997<br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Kamau Daaood</span> </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><i>vocals, poetry<br /></i><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Michael Session</span> </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><i>alto and soprano saxophones<br /></i><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Phil Vieux</span> </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><i>tenor saxophone, bass clarinet<br /></i><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Randall Willis</span> <i>soprano and tenor saxophones</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">James Newton</span> <i>flute</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Rodney Lee</span> <i>piano, organ, rhodes</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Nate Morgan</span> <i>piano </i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Horace Tapscott</span> <i>piano </i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Karen Briggs</span> <i>violin </i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Osama Afifi</span> <i>bass </i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Art Davis</span><i> bass</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Roberto Miranda</span> <i>bass</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Herb Graham, Jr.</span> </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><i>drums, percussions<br /></i><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Billy Higgins</span> <i>drums, guitar, gambri, vocals</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Willie Jones III</span> </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><i>drums<br /></i><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Munyungo Jackson</span> </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><i>percussions<br /></i><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Carmen Bradford</span> </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><i>vocals<br /></i><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Dwight Trible</span> <i>vocals</i><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">- Leimert Park (K.Daaood/H.Graham, Jr.)<br />- Tears ((K.Daaood)<br />- Her (For My Wife, Baadia) (K.Daaood/B.Higgins)<br />- Deep River In Her Voice (For Billie Holiday) (K.Daaood)<br />- Balm Of Gilead (For Billie Holiday & Lester Young) (K.Daaood)<br />- Sunbathing In My Tears (K.Daaood/M.Jackson)<br />- The Men (K.Daaood/R.Carter)<br />- Liberator Of The Spirit (For John Coltrane) (K.Daaood/B.Higgins)<br />- World Music (K.Daaood/B.Higgins)<br />- Ancestral Echoes ((K.Daaood/H.Tapscott)<br />- Army Of Healers (K.Daaood/H.Tapscott)<br />- Art Blakey’s Drumsticks (K.Daaood/N.Morgan)<br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span>bertrandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04478921099297575752noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24009309.post-55504696825313261032010-02-14T23:31:00.007+01:002010-03-23T10:34:35.366+01:00Horace Tapscott Discography (Audience/FM/Soundboard/Video Recordings)<span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:180%;" ><strong><br /></strong></span><div style="text-align: right; font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://bjazz.blogspot.com/2010/02/this-blog-which-has-been-started-in.html" target="blank""><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">-> INDEX</span><br /></a></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:180%;" ><strong></strong></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br /><br />Horace Tapscott with the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Century City Playhouse<br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >FM recording</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Los Angeles, CA, September 9, 1979</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Horace Tapscott</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">piano<br /></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Sabir Mateen</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">tenor saxophone<br /></span></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">others unknown</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- <span style="font-style: italic;">unknown title<br /></span>- Noissessprahs (S.Mateen)<br />- Raisha's New-Hip Dance (H.Tapscott)</span></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br /><br />Horace Tapscott Quartet</span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Jazz Festival Willisau</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmu_NCBVG6_Ljlw_okghI6vKAaomks_9vZvPUnB1NhTzMbQ57AHDxnYr22ZybU62t50KkIvJLETQpOkla8kYMggFZHxnOfzl5qv5TmA4yIHk00-Rdf6C2O3JTY61LPsQwg7riEtw/s1600-h/1983-Festival.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 140px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmu_NCBVG6_Ljlw_okghI6vKAaomks_9vZvPUnB1NhTzMbQ57AHDxnYr22ZybU62t50KkIvJLETQpOkla8kYMggFZHxnOfzl5qv5TmA4yIHk00-Rdf6C2O3JTY61LPsQwg7riEtw/s200/1983-Festival.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444850916425320178" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >FM recording</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Willisau, Switzerland, August 27, 1983</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Horace Tapscott</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">piano</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Dadisi Komolafe</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">alto saxophone, flute</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Roberto Miranda</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">bass</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Everett Brown, Jr.</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">drums</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- Lino’s Pad (H.Tapscott)</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- The Call (L.Robertson)</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- Oleo (S.Rollins)</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- The Dark Tree (incomplete) (H.Tapscott)</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Horace Tapscott Trio</span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Live in Karlsruhe</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >FM recording</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Karlsruhe, Germany, September 7, 1983</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Horace Tapscott</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">piano</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Roberto Miranda</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">bass</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Everett Brown, Jr.</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">drums</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- <span style="font-style: italic;">unknown title</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- Lino’s Pad (H.Tapscott)</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- Lush Life (B.Strayhorn)</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >John Carter / Horace Tapscott Together Again Ensemble</span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Live In Freiburg</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Audience recording</span><br />Freiburg, Germany, July 8, 1987</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">John Carter</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">clarinet</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Horace Tapscott</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">piano</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Bobby Bradford</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">cornet</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Arthur Blythe</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">alto saxophone</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Roberto Miranda</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">bass</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Donald Dean</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">drums</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- The Dark Tree (H.tapscott)<br /></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- With Respect To Monk (R.Miranda)</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- Sketches Of Drunken Mary (H.Tapscott)<br /></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- <span style="font-style: italic;">unknown title</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- Woman (B.Bradford)<br /></span> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-style: italic;">unknown title</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- </span></span> <span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-style: italic;">unknown title</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br /><br />John Carter / Horace Tapscott Together Again Ensemble</span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Konfrontationen 1987</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9C3dHVvXl28RJYqPF42T22S4TWVtaRJvsQTsGmBcl8cuFcPeC-5Y4adRGE5_OEZHaTaNqal2PzMYbxpl23VsoIlU2hEavJW6133rjbkcGgrwY7jJVIwYgkvmvp5svqwCOVZbyeA/s1600-h/k87.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 142px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9C3dHVvXl28RJYqPF42T22S4TWVtaRJvsQTsGmBcl8cuFcPeC-5Y4adRGE5_OEZHaTaNqal2PzMYbxpl23VsoIlU2hEavJW6133rjbkcGgrwY7jJVIwYgkvmvp5svqwCOVZbyeA/s200/k87.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444850934815708466" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Audience recording<br /></span></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Nickelsdorf, Austria, July 10, 1987</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">John Carter</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">clarinet</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Horace Tapscott</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">piano</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Bobby Bradford</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">cornet</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Arthur Blythe</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">alto saxophone</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Roberto Miranda</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">bass</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Donald Dean</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">drums</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- The Dark Tree (H.Tapscott)</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- With Respect To Monk (R.Miranda)</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- <span style="font-style: italic;">unknown title</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Horace Tapscott / Roberto Miranda</span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >New Langton Arts</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Audience recording<br /></span></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">San Francisco, CA, November 9, 1990</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Horace Tapscott</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">piano</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Roberto Miranda</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">bass</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- Medley:<br /></span> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Bright Moments (R.Kirk)</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Straight Street (J.Coltrane)<br /></span> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child (Traditional)</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- Like Someone In Love (J.Van Heusen/J.Burke)</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- Black And Tan Fantasy (D.Ellington/B.Miley)</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- One For Lately (incomplete) (T.Green)</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Horace Tapscott Solo<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">National Art Gallery<br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Video recording</span><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Ottawa, Canada, July 20, 1991</span></span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Horace Tapscott</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">piano</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- Ancestral Echoes (H.Tapscott)</span><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- Ballad For Samuel (H.Tapscott)</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- Mary On Sunday (</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">H.Tapscott</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">)</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- Mothership (H.Tapscott)</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- Medley:<br />This Is For Kenny (E.Hope)<br />Straight Street (J.Coltrane)<br />Hi-Fly (R.Weston)<br />Little Africa (L.Hill)</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- <span style="font-style: italic;">unknown title</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Horace Tapscott / Arthur Blythe</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Koncepts Cultural Gallery</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Audience recording</span><br />Oakland,CA , August 16, 1991</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Horace Tapscott</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">piano</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Arthur Blythe</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">alto saxophone</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- At The Crossroads (</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">H.Tapscott</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">)</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- Sketches Of Drunken Mary (H.Tapscott)</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- Hip Dripper (A.Blythe)</span><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- <span style="font-style: italic;">unknown title</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- The Dark Tree (H.Tapscott)</span><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- <span style="font-style: italic;">unknown title</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- The Jitterburg Waltz (F.Waller)</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- In A Sentimental Moods (D.Ellington)</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Horace Tapscott / Michael Session</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Heidelberg Café</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Audience recording</span><br />Loppem, Belgium, October 29, 1991</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Horace Tapscott</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">piano</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Michael Session</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">soprano, alto and tenor saxophones</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- Retribution, Reparation (N.Morgan)</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- Mothership (H.Tapscott)</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- Bavarian Mist (M.Session)</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- Ballad For Samuel (H.Tapscott)</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- One For Lately (T.Green)</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- Autumn Colors (H.Tapscott)</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- Many Nights Ago (C.Crunk)</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- The Jitterburg Waltz (F.Waller)</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Horace Tapscott Trio</span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Four Queens Hotel,<br /><span style="font-size:85%;">French Quarter Room</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">FM recording<br /></span></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Las Vegas, NV, February 1992</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Horace Tapscott</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">piano</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Roberto Miranda</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">bass</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Fritz Wise</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">drums</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- Lino’s Pad (H.Tapscott)</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- Oleo (S.Rollins)</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- Akirfa (L.Robertson)</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- One For Lately (T.Green)</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- Little Africa (L.Hill)</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Horace Tapscott Quartet</span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >21 Internationales New Jazz Moers Festival</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Soundboard (?) recording</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Moers, Germany, June 8, 1992</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Horace Tapscott</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">piano</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Michael Session</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">soprano, alto and tenor saxophone</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Roberto Miranda</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">electric bass</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Fritz Wise</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">drums</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- The Giant Is Awakened (H.Tapscott)</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- One For Lately (T.Green)</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- UMATU (M.Session)</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- The Dark Tree (H.Tapscott)</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- Little Africa (L.Hill)</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Steve Lacy / Horace Tapscott</span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >8th du Maurier International Jazz Festival,</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The Western Front</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Audience recording<br /></span></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Vancouver, Canada, June 28, 1993</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Steve Lacy</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">soprano saxophone</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Horace Tapscott</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">piano</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- <span style="font-style: italic;">unknown title</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- Art (S.Lacy/H.Melville)</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- Well You Needn’t (T.Monk)</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- Bone (S.Lacy)</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Horace Tapscott Arkestra</span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >15th Annual Chicago Jazz Festival</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">FM recording<br /></span></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Petrillo Music Shell, Grant Park</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Chicago, IL, September 12, 1993</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Horace Tapscott</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">piano</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Oscar Brasheer </span><span style="font-style: italic;">trumpet</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Thurman Green</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">trombone</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Arthur Blythe</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">alto saxophone</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Teddy Edwards</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">tenor saxophone</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Michael Session</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">baritone saxophone</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Roberto Miranda</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">bass</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Fritz Wise </span><span style="font-style: italic;">drums</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- One For Lately (T.Green)</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- The Black Apostles (H.Tapscott)</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- Sandy And Niles (H.Tapscott)</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- <span style="font-style: italic;">Tapscott Interview with Neil Tesser (incomplete)</span></span></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Horace Tapscott Solo</span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >James Moore Theatre</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Audience recording</span></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Oakland, CA, October 16, 1993</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Horace Tapscott</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">piano</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- Ancestral Echoes (</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">H.Tapscott</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">)</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- Sketches Of Drunken Mary (H.Tapscott)</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">- Ballad For Samuel (H.Tapscott)<br />- Medley:<br />Nyja's Theme (H.Tapscott)<br />Sandy And Niles (H.tapscott)<br />- Lush Life (B.Strayhorn)<br />- Hi-Fly (R.Weston)<br />- Little Africa (L.Hill)<br />- Closing Medley:<br />Oleo (S.Rollins)<br />Rhythm-A-Ning (T.Monk)<br />The Theme (M.Davis)<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Horace Tapscott with the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >24 Internationales New Jazz Moers Festival</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8KoNdevKOLxgir5ItbpmKRPr6ouLYyuVLqCaHI-ZZKlptdEX21KYr-rMZiwaGJ6iDjSXaMPP0S8imMgOF1-Xd-OGsOwBjVVPhlKf1Hp35XmJj3cKLBdc3GZSTtbtN5XCJ-D0beA/s1600-h/moers95.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 139px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8KoNdevKOLxgir5ItbpmKRPr6ouLYyuVLqCaHI-ZZKlptdEX21KYr-rMZiwaGJ6iDjSXaMPP0S8imMgOF1-Xd-OGsOwBjVVPhlKf1Hp35XmJj3cKLBdc3GZSTtbtN5XCJ-D0beA/s200/moers95.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444850944244916690" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Soundboard (?) & Video recordings</span><br />Moers, Germany, June 3, 1995</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Horace Tapscott</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">piano</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Steve Smith</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">trumpet</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Thurman Green</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">trombone</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Arthur Blythe</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">alto saxophone</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Charles Owens</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">reeds</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Michael Session</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">reeds</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Jesse Sharps</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">reeds</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Fundi Legohn</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">french horn</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Roger Williams</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">tuba</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Nate Morgan</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">piano</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Roberto Miranda</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">bass</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">David Bryant</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">bass</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Sonship Theus</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">drums</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Fritz Wise</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">drums</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Dwight Trible</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">vocal</span></span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- The Black Apostles (H.Tapscott)</span> <span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child (Traditional)</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Dem Folks (L.Hill)</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Ballad For Deadwood Dick (H.Tapscott)</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Little Africa (L.Hill)</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Horace Tapscott / Sonny Simmons Quartet</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >X Festival de Jazz du Fort Napoléon</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Audience & Video recordings<br /></span></span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >La Seyne-sur-Mer, France, August 3, 1995</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Horace Tapscott</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">piano</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Sonny Simmons</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">alto saxophone, english horn</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">James Lewis</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">bass</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">John Betsch</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">drums</span></span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Medley:<br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> unknown title</span><br />So What (M.Davis)<br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> unknown title</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Medley:<br />On Green Dolphin Street (B.Kaper/N.Washington)<br />Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child (Traditional)</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Drunken Mary / Mary On Sunday (H.Tapscott)</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Medley:<br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> unknown title</span><br />Milestones (M.Davis)</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- All Blues (M.Davis)</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Aiee! The Phantom (H.Tapscott)</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Caravan (D.Ellington/J.Tizol/I.Mills)</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Oleo (S.Rollins)<br /><br /><br /><br /></span>bertrandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04478921099297575752noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24009309.post-1143319230534646262010-02-14T23:30:00.005+01:002010-09-27T11:37:23.687+02:00Nimbus Records: Label's Discography - Update<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><div align="justify"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:180%;" ><strong></strong></span><div style="text-align: right; font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://bjazz.blogspot.com/2010/02/this-blog-which-has-been-started-in.html" target="blank"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">-> INDEX</span><br /></a></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:180%;" ><strong></strong></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1733/2486/200/logo-.3.jpg" border="0" /></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />Le label <a href="http://www.nimbuswest.com/" target="blank"">Nimbus</a> fut fondé en 1</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">978 à Los Angeles par Tom Albach afin d’enregistrer la musique du <em>Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra</em>, d’Horace Tapscott et des membres de l'U.G.M.A.A. <em></em> (Adele Sebastian, Roberto Miranda, Nate Morgan, Dadisi Komolafe…). Il compte à ce jour 48 références</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">.<br /><br />L'histoire et l’itinéraire du label peuvent se résumer en quelques mots.<br />• De 1978 à 1985, <a href="http://www.nimbuswest.com/" target="blank"">Nimbus </a>enregistre essentiellement des musiciens membres de l’U.G.M.A.A. (Union of God’s Musicians and Artists Ascension) fondée en 1961 par Horace Tapscott.<br />• A la fin des années 80, Tom Albach quitte Los Angeles pour s’installer en Europe à Amsterdam. Là, il enregistre des artistes européens (Ernst Reijseger, Daniele D’Agaro…) ou installés aux Pays-Bas (Curtis Clark, Sean Bergin…) et ce jusqu’à son retour aux Etats-Unis au milieu des années 90.<br />La discographie du label se divise donc en deux périodes qui se "chevauchent" : Los Angeles de 1978 à 1987 et Amsterdam de 1984 à 1993.<br />Aujourd’hui, Tom Albach réédite petit à petit son catalogue en CD et publie occasionnellement des enregistrements inédits.<br /><br />La discographie ci-dessous est ordonnée en fonction des numéros de catalogue des différentes publications.<br />Notons par ailleurs qu'il existe deux séries de références au sein du catalogue :<br />• de la référence <span style="font-weight: bold;">135</span> (Horace Tapscott & P.A.P.A., <span style="font-style: italic;">Flight 17</span> à la référence <span style="font-weight: bold;">4146 </span>(Horace Tapscott, <span style="font-style: italic;">Lighthouse 79 - vol.2</span>).<br />• de la référence <span style="font-weight: bold;">501</span> (Curtis Clark, <span style="font-style: italic;">Letter to South Africa</span>) à la référence <span style="font-weight: bold;">511</span> (Various Artists, <span style="font-style: italic;">L.A.'s Unsung - Nimbus West Compilation</span>).<br /></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><br /></strong></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong></strong></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"><br /><br /></span></strong></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >Horace Tapscott<br />with the Pan-Afrikan Peoples Arkestra</span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Flight 17</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >Ni</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >mbus </span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >(NIMBUS-135)<br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzw5sfmTpxePE9nJ-U_7D5kBTy-5W3gTNZwZERpLy2jehC8kScddwE1oKbVggQ6r63HWGRAWaavoxRd82tsV9MyNkNqm5eNjFCpIXqNWHcjBeJBLldpR31T7evDCnN-WTtzm0f3Q/s1600-h/flight-17.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 315px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzw5sfmTpxePE9nJ-U_7D5kBTy-5W3gTNZwZERpLy2jehC8kScddwE1oKbVggQ6r63HWGRAWaavoxRd82tsV9MyNkNqm5eNjFCpIXqNWHcjBeJBLldpR31T7evDCnN-WTtzm0f3Q/s320/flight-17.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441975921475680434" border="0" /></a><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">CD reissue: Nimbus West (NS 135 C),</span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">* previously uniss</span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">ued tracks (from the</span> <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Live at </span></span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">the I.U.C.C.</span> </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">sessions)</span></span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br />Los Angeles, 1978</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Horace Tapscott</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >piano</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Jesse Sharps</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >soprano and te</span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >nor saxophones, flute</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Linda Hill</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >piano</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Adele Sebastian</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >vocal, flute</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />James An</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >drews</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >tenor saxophone, bass clarinet</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Michael Session</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >alto saxophone</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Kafi Larry Roberts</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >flute</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Herbert Callies</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >alto clarinet</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Red Calle</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >ndar</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >tuba</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Archie Johnson</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >trombone</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Lester Robertson</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >trombone</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Everett Brown, Jr.</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >drums</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />William Ma</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >dison</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >percussions, drums</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Louis Spears</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >cello</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />David Bryant</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >bass</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Kamonta Lawrence Polk</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >bass</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br />- Flight 17 First Movement (H.Baker)<br />- Breeze (H.Baker)<br />- Horacio (R.Miranda)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Clarisse (J.Sharps)<br />- Maui (Kamonta)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Coltrane Medley (J.Coltrane) *<br />- Village Dance Revisited (S.Mateen) *</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><strong><em></em></strong></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><strong><em></em></strong></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><em></em></strong></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >Horace Tapscott<br />with the Pan-Afrikan Peoples Arkestra</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" ><br />The Call</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >Nimbus (NIMBUS 246)<br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_2l91VKC5_FLxMLpaAZn6Qwfe32EZZhGjUqOLqW1PqxitFSHxZk6zyoYLibvr12iVQ6AF8gTzLBdnDkUOSgvWQjJHvhkn66E9GRSPZ8GbbYUpqsO9m9GR8lv5UZwwpbvC3Zxmlw/s1600-h/the-call.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 318px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_2l91VKC5_FLxMLpaAZn6Qwfe32EZZhGjUqOLqW1PqxitFSHxZk6zyoYLibvr12iVQ6AF8gTzLBdnDkUOSgvWQjJHvhkn66E9GRSPZ8GbbYUpqsO9m9GR8lv5UZwwpbvC3Zxmlw/s320/the-call.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441975927539182578" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />LP only</span><br />Los Angeles, April 8, 1978</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Horace Tapscott</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >piano</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Jesse Sharps</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >soprano and tenor saxophones, flute</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Linda Hill</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >piano</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Adele Sebastian</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >vocal, flute</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Lester Robertson</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >trombone</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />David Bryant</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >bass</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Everett Brown, J</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >r.</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >drums</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Herbert Callies</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >alto clarinet</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />James Andrews</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >tenor saxophone, bass clarinet</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Michael Session</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >alto saxophone</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Kafi Larry Roberts</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >flute, soprano saxophone</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Archie Johnson</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >trombone</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Red Callendar</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >tuba, bass</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />William Madison</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >percussions, drums</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Louis Spears</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >cello, bass</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Kamonta Lawrence Polk</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >bass</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br />- The Call (L.Robertson)</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br />- Quagmire Manor At Five A.M. (M.Session)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Nakatini Suite (C.Masey)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Peyote Song No. III (J.Sharps)</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><em></em></strong><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><strong><em></em></strong></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >Horace Tapscott<br />with the Pan-Afrikan Peoples Arkestra</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" ><br />Live At</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" > Th</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >e I.U.C.C.</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >Nimbus (No. 357)</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWF7wX8Tki4SJCFZquk4KjdWr92JDhg-lzg_3aUxMw9OupoaFk7NkQ2pxy_oDVe0OXdTSlqbdQMoE7PRv0AC8bG_8pDhyPUK47Ud6VLlfUn6biDaN1MZSt-W2KCimPJpllEb5bJA/s1600-h/live-at-iucc.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 316px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWF7wX8Tki4SJCFZquk4KjdWr92JDhg-lzg_3aUxMw9OupoaFk7NkQ2pxy_oDVe0OXdTSlqbdQMoE7PRv0AC8bG_8pDhyPUK47Ud6VLlfUn6biDaN1MZSt-W2KCimPJpllEb5bJA/s320/live-at-iucc.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441975928905672130" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">CD reissue: Nimbus West (NS 357 C),<br />* previously unissued track</span></span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br />Los Angeles, </span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >February-June 1979</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Horace Tapscott</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >piano</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Jesse Sharps</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >soprano saxophone</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Sabir Mateen</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >tenor saxophone</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />James Andrews</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >tenor saxophone</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Michael Session</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >al</span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >to saxophone</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Kafi Roberts</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >flute</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Herbert Callies</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >alto</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >clarinet</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />David Bryant</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >bass</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Alan</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" > Hines </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >bass</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Everett Brown, Jr.</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >drums</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Adele Sebastian</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >flute</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Billy Harris </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >soprano</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >and</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >tenor</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >saxophones</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Daa’oud Woods</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >percussions</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Red Callendar</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >tuba</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Lester Robertson</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >trombone</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >John Williams</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >baritone</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >saxophone</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Aubrey Hart </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >flute</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Roberto Miranda</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >bass</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Billy Hinton</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >drums</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Linda Hill</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >piano</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Des</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >ta Walker</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >tenor</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >saxophone</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Mike Daniels</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >percussions</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Louis Spears</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >cello</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br />- Macrame (J.Sharps)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Future Sally’s Time (A.Blythe/S.Crouch)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Noissessprahs (S.Mateen)<br />- McKowsky’s First Fifth (J.Sharps) *</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Village Dance</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" > (S.Mateen)</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br />- L.T.T. (H.Tapscott)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Desert Fairy Princess (J.Sharps)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Lift Every Voice (J.W.Johnson/J.R.Johnson)</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><strong>Roberto Miguel Miranda<br /><em>The Creator’s Musician</em></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Nimbus (468)<br /><br /></span></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD94p6qr-PKhWPOkjL7IClMdUmMs3S9eFxB6Rhsdvmi1d01pD62tKkPTgzgRttKXZ4jMowtLnu-GSmKRHxIItlKGxIdcEhA2YsgUPn6apG6r4mXakwYrX4Dhu9uxbiQltycyqYgw/s1600-h/roberto-miranda.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD94p6qr-PKhWPOkjL7IClMdUmMs3S9eFxB6Rhsdvmi1d01pD62tKkPTgzgRttKXZ4jMowtLnu-GSmKRHxIItlKGxIdcEhA2YsgUPn6apG6r4mXakwYrX4Dhu9uxbiQltycyqYgw/s320/roberto-miranda.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441961289990725730" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />LP only</span><br />Los Angeles, 1980<br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Roberto Miranda</span> <em>bass</em><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">- Evolution On The Life Of Moses (R.Miranda)<br />I. Nile River Chile<br />II. Prayer For The People (When He Walked Amongst His People)<br />III. Ten Commandments, 12 Tribes<br />IV. Wandering<br />V. Prayer Is Essential<br />- Saint Michael Servant Of The Lord (R.Miranda)<br />- Interpolations (R.Miranda)<br />- Imagined Dance For Solo Bass (R.Miranda)<br />- Song For String Bass (R.Miranda)<br /><br /><br /></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >Horace Tapscott / Everett Brown, Jr.</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" ><br />At The </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >Crossroads</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >Nimbus (NS 579)</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLDGxh9WDtiQjE5CiXQVXp6w4XfG1tesp_NMph8xHA1ykAKjsnCv8bY8FqAGfSc8B9HukTuHk3gws7sfksdODfgiVe-tkiR3pRlxeYFOWxdvGTQpoDPU_RtXZHRw_ViLGbjcmq0w/s1600-h/at-the-crossroads.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 317px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLDGxh9WDtiQjE5CiXQVXp6w4XfG1tesp_NMph8xHA1ykAKjsnCv8bY8FqAGfSc8B9HukTuHk3gws7sfksdODfgiVe-tkiR3pRlxeYFOWxdvGTQpoDPU_RtXZHRw_ViLGbjcmq0w/s320/at-the-crossroads.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441978146065303474" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">LP only</span></span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br />Los Angeles, 1980</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Horace Tapscott</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >piano</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Everett Brown, Jr.</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >drums</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br />- At The Cross Roads (H.Tapscott)</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br />- Middle Age Madness (H.Tapscott)</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br />- Ballad For Window Lee Black (H.Tapscott)<br />- Marcellus III (E.Brown)</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><strong><em></em></strong></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><br /><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Adele Sebastian<br /><em>Desert Fairy Princess</em></span></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Nimbus (NS-680)<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisP-nLWYFpCLH756cN4IHfd42pxhM6POdJDLWADHw5vqQhxRe-exvRLwz_lFp2QQ65YB3iU43h_xwPzv6SRd7sNWEc0ncd2TXc66Duerrs3l05s80C7sgEdSwEri4I-zX1Vu3G_A/s1600-h/adele-sebastian.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 307px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisP-nLWYFpCLH756cN4IHfd42pxhM6POdJDLWADHw5vqQhxRe-exvRLwz_lFp2QQ65YB3iU43h_xwPzv6SRd7sNWEc0ncd2TXc66Duerrs3l05s80C7sgEdSwEri4I-zX1Vu3G_A/s320/adele-sebastian.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441965337657884194" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">CD reissues: Nimbus West (NS 680 C),</span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Céleste (LXCY-6237)</span><br />Los Angeles, 1981<br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Adele Sebastian</span> <em>flute, vocals</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Bobby West</span> <em>piano</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Roberto Miranda</span> <em>bass</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Billy Higgins</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">drums</span><em>, gembreh</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Rickey Kelly</span> <em>marimbas</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Daoude Woods</span> <em>percussions</em><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">- Desert Fairy Princess (J.Sharps)<br />- Belize (R.Kelly)<br />- I Felt Spring (E.Straughter)<br />- Man From Tanganyika (M.Tyner)<br />- Day Dreamer (K.L.Polk)<br />- Prayer For The People (R.Miranda)<br /></span><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Linda Hill<br /><em>Lullaby For Linda</em></span></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Nimbus (#791)<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvk8LeOqcLIgt-2h5fK_DstWTFPD57ykxPsIj2bzjYxJm3gjbATIkiaNDEEMN3R0zv42PAf50Pc3_6x4bGJjbR2rErzBv7-iceQwsJdbekikYE63aOOtofQ3Bl2tewmLaFaE8Sdg/s1600-h/linda-hill.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvk8LeOqcLIgt-2h5fK_DstWTFPD57ykxPsIj2bzjYxJm3gjbATIkiaNDEEMN3R0zv42PAf50Pc3_6x4bGJjbR2rErzBv7-iceQwsJdbekikYE63aOOtofQ3Bl2tewmLaFaE8Sdg/s320/linda-hill.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441959092661062658" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />LP only</span><br />Los Angeles, 1981<br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Linda Hill</span> <em>piano, vocals</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Adele Sebastian</span> <em>flute, vocals</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Jugegr Juan Grey</span> <em>vocals</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Aubrey Hart</span> <em>flute</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Sabir Mateen</span> <em></em></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>tenor </em></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>saxophone, clarinet</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Virjilio Figueroa</span> <em>percussions</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Everett Brown, Jr.</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">drums</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Roberto Miranda</span> <em>bass</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Fundi Legohn</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">french horn</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">- Leland’s Song (L.Hill)<br />- The Creator’s Musician (R.Miranda)<br />- Lullaby For Linda (L.Hill)<br />- Children (L.Hill)<br /></span><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Gary Bias<br /><em>East 101</em></span></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Nimbus (NS-802)<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqP6TOpwLSUDUOLlh5DbLqVRKL5CFc3_9uviPz_YHKOlZv9cRVi9hIoZpD8pPMVnJkNABrKx11uIKjB5D9CeOMR2rowBn_HhiOKTM4qgn89hmntRgQoJf7KNzDwy88cgYHqtDNxw/s1600-h/gary-bias.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 307px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqP6TOpwLSUDUOLlh5DbLqVRKL5CFc3_9uviPz_YHKOlZv9cRVi9hIoZpD8pPMVnJkNABrKx11uIKjB5D9CeOMR2rowBn_HhiOKTM4qgn89hmntRgQoJf7KNzDwy88cgYHqtDNxw/s320/gary-bias.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441956171649372386" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />LP only</span><br />Los Angeles, 1981<br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Gary Bias</span> <em>soprano and alto </em></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>saxophones</em></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>, flute</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">David “Eric” Tillman</span> <em>piano</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Rickey Kelly</span> <em>vibes</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Fritz Wise</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">drums</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">John Heard</span> <em>bass</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Roberto Miranda</span> <em>bass</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Rickey Minor</span> <em>electric bass</em><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">- Asiki (G.Bias)</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">- Dear Violet (G.Bias)<br />- Arthur’s Vamp (G.Bias)<br />- East 101 (G.Bias)<br />- As Children Play (G.Bias)<br /></span><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Creative Arts Ensemble<br /><em>One Step Out</em></span></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Nimbus (#913)<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmbqxD9IfPU49L6HDvbqHqO_evrBLCc4nmU2Z9ewzNr2m4wzLODPL0WS65K0NIf4kA9oXwiDNglztjPPaCf7ya32Owt4g3I-rtUZw6QWeE8qqGoGYBYa-8PkEoe_hbv9HAay5qKA/s1600-h/creative+arts+ensemble.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmbqxD9IfPU49L6HDvbqHqO_evrBLCc4nmU2Z9ewzNr2m4wzLODPL0WS65K0NIf4kA9oXwiDNglztjPPaCf7ya32Owt4g3I-rtUZw6QWeE8qqGoGYBYa-8PkEoe_hbv9HAay5qKA/s320/creative+arts+ensemble.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441959085050533698" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />CD reissue: Nimbus West (NS 913 C)</span><br />Los Angeles, 1981<br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Kaeef Ruzadun</span> <em>piano</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">B.J. Crowley “Shaleethia”</span> <em>vocals</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">“Jiggs” Wilbert Hemsley</span> <em>tenor </em></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>saxophone</em></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em></em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Gary Bias</span> <em></em></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>soprano and alto </em></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>saxophones</em></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em></em></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em></em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Dadisi Komolafe</span> <em>flute<br /></em><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">George Bohannon</span> <em>trombone<br /></em><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Jeff Clayton</span> <em>baritone saxophone</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Al White</span> <em>trumpet</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">“The Skipper” Henry Franklin</span> <em>bass</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Sonship Theus</span> <em>drums<br /></em><span style="font-size:85%;">- One Step Out (K.Ruzadun)<br />- Flashback Of Time (K.Ruzadun)<br />- All Praises Due (K.Ruzadun)<br />- Stars In Lightyear Time (K.Ruzadun)<br /></span><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Roberto Miguel Miranda<br /><em>Raphael</em></span></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Nimbus (NS-1024)<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFbNbJ8Obd1hERshP8nnTwBylo5hadcuSrJNWCQRZh0AwDiv0l43tQE9vrao4N0L5Haj5QJeZ_n_bF-YCTmS1Joo_aYdjqloHqjhiF13c6xdx6ncOUhiHda-YxfzRXUdvLRmvIZw/s1600-h/roberto-miranda_raphael-.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFbNbJ8Obd1hERshP8nnTwBylo5hadcuSrJNWCQRZh0AwDiv0l43tQE9vrao4N0L5Haj5QJeZ_n_bF-YCTmS1Joo_aYdjqloHqjhiF13c6xdx6ncOUhiHda-YxfzRXUdvLRmvIZw/s320/roberto-miranda_raphael-.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441961279894245554" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />LP only<br /></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Hollywood, July-August, 1980<br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Roberto Miranda</span> <em>bass, vocals</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Virgilio Figueroa</span> percu<em>ssions, vocals</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Wynell Montgomery</span> <em></em></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em> soprano and tenor </em></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>saxophones, flute</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Vinny Golia</span> <em></em></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>tenor and bariton</em></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>e saxophones</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Nels Cline</span> <em>guitar</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Vanessa Burch</span> <em>piano</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Ben Rosenbloom</span> <em>piano</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Hansonia Caldwell</span> <em>piano</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Wayne Peet</span> <em>piano</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Jeff Littleton</span> <em>bass and electric bass</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Alex Cline</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">drums</span><em>, percussions</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Louis Raphael Miranda, Jr.</span> </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-style: italic;">drums</span><em>, percussions</em></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em></em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">George Andujar-Seguidor</span> <em>percussions, vocals</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Raul Travieso Rodriguez-Hablador</span> <em>percussions, vocals<br /></em><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Andrew Acosta-Guataca</span> <em></em></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>percussions, vocals</em></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em></em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Aviva Rosenbloom</span> <em>vocals</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Deborah Miranda</span> <em>vocals</em><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">- Bembe (Traditional)<br />- A Case In Point (W.Montgomery)<br />- Bata (Traditional)<br />- Raphael (R.Miranda)<br />- Faith (R.Miranda)<br />- Piano Sonata #1 (R.Miranda)<br />- The Creator’s Musicians (R.Miranda)<br />- Prayer #1 (R.Miranda)<br />- Columbia (Traditional)<br /></span><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >Horace Tapscott</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" ><br />Dial “B” For Barbra</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >Nimbus (NS 1147)<br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGAmK7bGEFjl9QzjNthvJBwvyvuAOU8SewDXU49hFiw6oEon9bWq_p5vEcT64YPIGflzI6hGSOpjjCfmsaVABIuAsN1-oNvGh1_1yrKcsQWw9pMBfNwaUhIc3YRNQ4M_KPlCPRTg/s1600-h/dial-b-for-barbra.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 317px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGAmK7bGEFjl9QzjNthvJBwvyvuAOU8SewDXU49hFiw6oEon9bWq_p5vEcT64YPIGflzI6hGSOpjjCfmsaVABIuAsN1-oNvGh1_1yrKcsQWw9pMBfNwaUhIc3YRNQ4M_KPlCPRTg/s320/dial-b-for-barbra.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441985569567431986" border="0" /></a><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">CD reissue: Nimbus West (NS 1147 C)</span></span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br />Los Angeles, 1981</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Horace Tapscott </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >piano</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Reggie Bullen</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >trumpet</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Gary Bias</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >alto and soprano saxophones</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Sabir Mateen</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >tenor saxophone</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Roberto Miranda</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >bass</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Everett Brown, Jr.</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >drums, percussions</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">- Lately’s Solo (H.Tapscott)</span></span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Dial “B” For Barbra (H.Tapscott)<br />- Dem’ Folks (L.Hill)</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><strong><em></em></strong></span><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >Horace Tapscott</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Live At Lobero – vo</span></span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >l</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >. II</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >Nimb</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >us (1258)<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfxvPFPDdNFbXcDbE1tDh_wnXabUqxN7WnRMzXekt7TScm70M_qc1EJkcok716oqbw3RED00jpnl9wmJFKK9JK8RNqJD2QXmMBe8dhYk1AQ_hW9sTFObIqBuIrtFB0vv0OdqwRfA/s1600-h/live-at-lobero-vol.2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 317px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfxvPFPDdNFbXcDbE1tDh_wnXabUqxN7WnRMzXekt7TScm70M_qc1EJkcok716oqbw3RED00jpnl9wmJFKK9JK8RNqJD2QXmMBe8dhYk1AQ_hW9sTFObIqBuIrtFB0vv0OdqwRfA/s320/live-at-lobero-vol.2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441985567827626290" border="0" /></a></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">LP only</span></span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br />Santa Barbara, </span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >November 12, 1981</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Horace Tapscott</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >piano</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Roberto Miranda</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >bass</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Sonship Theus</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >drums</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br />- Lino’s Pad (H.Tapscott)<br />- Close To Freedom (C.Crunk)</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br />- St. Michael (R.Miranda)</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><em></em></strong><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><br /><strong><em></em></strong></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >Horace Tapscott</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" ><br />Live At Lobero</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >Nimbus (1369)<br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7DNSad7xUY5b757VDrA6hOfj173nDe8lpISIs6QNJKLVcjECMoEyx_6p6MZbeFrDYyWc9wpQzSjwvloiISi3RebAyxEVccpi1CrFXxuyct1n0d11piwYEiJoYDLyF874PQxOYhA/s1600-h/live-at-lobero.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 316px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7DNSad7xUY5b757VDrA6hOfj173nDe8lpISIs6QNJKLVcjECMoEyx_6p6MZbeFrDYyWc9wpQzSjwvloiISi3RebAyxEVccpi1CrFXxuyct1n0d11piwYEiJoYDLyF874PQxOYhA/s320/live-at-lobero.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441985572284461442" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">CD reissue: Nimbus West (NS 2370 C),<br />* previously unissued track</span></span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br />Santa Barbara, November 12, 1981</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Horace Tapscott</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >piano</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Roberto Miranda</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >bass</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Sonship Theus</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >drums</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br />- Inception (H.Tapscott) *<br />- Sketches Of Drunken Mary (H.Tapscott)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Raisha’s New-Hip </span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >Dance (</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >H.Tapscott)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- The Dark Tree (H.</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >Tapscott)</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><em></em></strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><em></em></strong></span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" ><strong><em></em></strong></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Thomas Tedesco<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Thomas Tedesco And Ocean</span></span></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Nimbus (NS-1470)<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTkPWCUB1CG9qOIMUtdk3D71APv66pWRG7zhwrfKKBziU0a6yNo1RQqMQP2JqveLcOjIKWHvZugvvTttriXyKWJhyT7K7-lH0uA7tFVvRRXM0OO0gFbQl3Scl1441ZopuFXlwj6A/s1600-h/thomas-tedesco.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 308px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTkPWCUB1CG9qOIMUtdk3D71APv66pWRG7zhwrfKKBziU0a6yNo1RQqMQP2JqveLcOjIKWHvZugvvTttriXyKWJhyT7K7-lH0uA7tFVvRRXM0OO0gFbQl3Scl1441ZopuFXlwj6A/s320/thomas-tedesco.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441965349789163266" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />LP only</span><br />Hollywood, June 17,1981<br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Thomas Tedesco</span> <em>guitar</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Bobby Bradford</span> <em>trumpet</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Roberto Miranda</span> <em>bass</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Onaje Sherman Ferguson</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">drums</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Sartuse</span> <em>percussions</em><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">- Number 26 (Free Disco) (T.Tedesco)<br />- The Doubleness Of Three (T.Tedesco)<br />- The Azzier The Izz (T.Tedesco)<br />- Morning Tide (T.Tedesco)<br /></span><br /><br /></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:130%;">Horace Tapscott</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">The Tapscott Sessions Vol. 1</span><br /></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >Nimbus (NS-1</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >581)<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1QdW5vMF6CqEtWGO7TRGceL8mKim8NpK5vuiQBvXeEGfFdRYu1ruccDdx9IxPPjV7fGg-DT5D3-WTI-nJUhvuO3ORgBCPMAuo8JwyGQqvtbm5ODWktemqgTyEHoa00SdXETV8Vw/s1600-h/tapscott-sessions-vol.1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 317px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1QdW5vMF6CqEtWGO7TRGceL8mKim8NpK5vuiQBvXeEGfFdRYu1ruccDdx9IxPPjV7fGg-DT5D3-WTI-nJUhvuO3ORgBCPMAuo8JwyGQqvtbm5ODWktemqgTyEHoa00SdXETV8Vw/s320/tapscott-sessions-vol.1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441988599616985426" border="0" /></a></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">LP only</span></span><br />Santa Barbara, June, 1982</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Horace Tapscott</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >piano</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br />- Jenny’s Spirit’s Waltz (H.Tapscott)<br />- Speedy Mike (A.Hines)<br />- Mother Ship (H.Tapscott)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- This Is For Benny (H.Tapscott)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Alone Together (H.Dietz/A.Schwartz)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Haunted (M.Swan)</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><strong><em></em></strong></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><em><strong></strong></em></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><strong><em></em></strong></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >Horace Tapscott</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><em><strong></strong></em></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >The Tapscott Sessions Vol. 2</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >Nimbus (NS-1692)<br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSnK-1nD_uew6bmM2X4JLJKHDIu6mo8k_XlBOFLx9Bc56kZ7hVokoTO2zHlK8B71qrm9CV-6XUko8W5Elrv1UEWr-1Exfgb7DOb3tXgA1MToMj02XSBOOGp4r3irasyStoIdLssA/s1600-h/tapscott-sessions-vol.2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 315px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSnK-1nD_uew6bmM2X4JLJKHDIu6mo8k_XlBOFLx9Bc56kZ7hVokoTO2zHlK8B71qrm9CV-6XUko8W5Elrv1UEWr-1Exfgb7DOb3tXgA1MToMj02XSBOOGp4r3irasyStoIdLssA/s320/tapscott-sessions-vol.2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441988602478011010" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">LP only</span></span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br />Santa Barbara, November, 1982</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><br />Horace Tapscott</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">piano</span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br />- Struggle X An Afro-American Dream (H.Tapscott)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Many Nights Ago (C.Crunk)</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><em><strong></strong></em></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><strong><em></em></strong></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><strong><em></em></strong></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >Horace Tapscott</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >The Tapscott Sessions Vol. 3</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Nimbus (NS-1703)</span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7uLyBSe7UGrMH-2bXHM03tfYm9H889s49S4iI3DKOc3-jQhPktV2I3jyh25a0w_Ul4Ks4q_d659vGLWC2uKTwPUinIx3Vns4qdnY_qpF_NqHjk6iI3wqerDWAP1Xv15gmL822oQ/s1600-h/tapscott-sessions-vol.3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 318px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7uLyBSe7UGrMH-2bXHM03tfYm9H889s49S4iI3DKOc3-jQhPktV2I3jyh25a0w_Ul4Ks4q_d659vGLWC2uKTwPUinIx3Vns4qdnY_qpF_NqHjk6iI3wqerDWAP1Xv15gmL822oQ/s320/tapscott-sessions-vol.3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441988607214694674" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">LP only</span></span><br />Santa Barbara, April, 1983</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><br />Horace Tapscott</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">piano</span></span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- The Tuus (H.Tapscott)<br />- Lately’s Light-Green Blues (H.Tapscott)</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br />- Reflections Of Self (H.Tapscott)</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br />- Kopkee’s Blues (H.Tapscott)</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br />- After The Storm (H.Tapscott)</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><strong><em></em></strong></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><strong><em></em></strong></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><strong><em></em></strong></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >Horace Tapscott</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >The </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >Tapscott Sessions Vol. 4</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >Nimbus (NS-1814)</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr0hHmbqsPH2AVXFDFKOXaWS_qxhc93n4_Lhwdv0Y49AK2P2eDUv5ippqZmyrICJaDVUMJC0pmoPnYd7epI5gAwsPmXNbzPCW5w96XNT1g_D7fJxX_tgOi1dCC5ffpwGGKP62Zmg/s1600-h/tapscott-sessions-vol.4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 319px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr0hHmbqsPH2AVXFDFKOXaWS_qxhc93n4_Lhwdv0Y49AK2P2eDUv5ippqZmyrICJaDVUMJC0pmoPnYd7epI5gAwsPmXNbzPCW5w96XNT1g_D7fJxX_tgOi1dCC5ffpwGGKP62Zmg/s320/tapscott-sessions-vol.4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441988615190952610" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">LP only</span></span><br />Santa Barbara, September, 1982</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Ho</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >race Tapscott</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >piano</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br />- A Dress For Renee (H.Tapscott)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- The Hero’s Last Dance (H.Tapscott)<br />- Shades Of Soweto (H.Tapscott)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Whit (L.Spears)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- First Call Of The </span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >Humming Bird (H.Tapscott)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Toward The Sunset (H.Tapscott)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- As Of Yet (A.Blythe)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Forgiving (H.Tapscott)</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><strong><em></em></strong></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></strong></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >Horace Tapscott</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><br />The Tapscott Sessions Vol. 5</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Nimbus (NS-1925)</span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYHD_zKDz34KdzNID43vanQJCgYztnJ79Lvrw5sCAIITuqYD-UEtd2ki1pc5ODSIGQQ2eibnUjIVDNAXREUfqL1JTmilLxpu9Z3WYEJwHriwEAt0J9aGDXopBAfjYKVyKJMB66kQ/s1600-h/tapscott-sessions-vol.5.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 318px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYHD_zKDz34KdzNID43vanQJCgYztnJ79Lvrw5sCAIITuqYD-UEtd2ki1pc5ODSIGQQ2eibnUjIVDNAXREUfqL1JTmilLxpu9Z3WYEJwHriwEAt0J9aGDXopBAfjYKVyKJMB66kQ/s320/tapscott-sessions-vol.5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441988620120307298" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">LP only</span></span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br />Santa Barbara, January, 1984</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><br />Horace Tapscott</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">piano</span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br />- Stringeurisms (H.Tapscott)<br />- I’ll Have One When It’s Over (H.Tap</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >scott)</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br />- Blues In Pirouette (H.Tapscott)</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br />- Perfumes In The Night (H.Tapscott)<br />- Hi-Pockets’ Swan Song (H.Tapscott)</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><strong><em></em></strong></span><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong></strong></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >Horace Tapscott</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;color:red;" ><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">The Tapscott Sessions Vol. 6</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Nimbus (NS-2036)</span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><br /></span></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge7L6UiNpWokpSyzg3QF2xcLpcPBcSJLzFpMZuW1a8Sg82SDUxyElqAnrCxSfkxgV42YrOykhEiCddJ1wCjj4IhjlZirHwzcK9j-IUUV5b8uZbPFEMEXVpTRBcHxnP62WmluDR4A/s1600-h/tapscott-sessions-vol.6.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 318px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge7L6UiNpWokpSyzg3QF2xcLpcPBcSJLzFpMZuW1a8Sg82SDUxyElqAnrCxSfkxgV42YrOykhEiCddJ1wCjj4IhjlZirHwzcK9j-IUUV5b8uZbPFEMEXVpTRBcHxnP62WmluDR4A/s320/tapscott-sessions-vol.6.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441882258298646242" border="0" /></a><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><br /></span></span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">LP only</span></span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br />Santa Barbara, October, 1983</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Horace Tapscott</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">piano</span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br />- Ancestral Echoes (H.Tapscott)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Jessica (R.Porter)</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br />- Restless Nights (R.King)<br />- Chartreuse Blues (H.Tapscott)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- The Golden Pearl (H.Tapscott)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- New Horizon (K.Ruzadun)</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >Horace Tapscott<br /></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;color:red;" ><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >The Tapscott Sessions Vol. 7</span></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;color:red;" ><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;">Nimbus (NS-2147)</span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><br /></span></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-e4XZWbtQFsR6ZtcCAXMsUoiTDBzdZJwBAmHtu6ipEjcXFnwfVAuJ497af5Yhzj-wMIkRElxH1_UDuWWaYtFFuse62aEnOs_5jkwm2ojHyWvWmkzgHobwai_DcmGjSXnWrVXh4w/s1600-h/tapscott-sessions-vol.7.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 317px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-e4XZWbtQFsR6ZtcCAXMsUoiTDBzdZJwBAmHtu6ipEjcXFnwfVAuJ497af5Yhzj-wMIkRElxH1_UDuWWaYtFFuse62aEnOs_5jkwm2ojHyWvWmkzgHobwai_DcmGjSXnWrVXh4w/s320/tapscott-sessions-vol.7.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441879956845063826" border="0" /></a><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><br /></span></span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><br /></span></span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">LP only</span></span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br />Santa Barbara, February, 1983</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Horace Tapscott </span><span style="font-style: italic;">piano</span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br />- Riding The San Andreas (H.Tapscott)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Amanda’s Tone Poem (H.Tapscott)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Southwestern Avenue Shuffle (H.Tapscott)</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br />- Yesterday’s Dream (H.Tapscott)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- ‘Round Midnight (T.Monk)</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br />- On The Nile (C.Tolliver)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Sonnet Of Butterfly McQueen (H.Tapscott)<br /><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >Horace Tapscott<br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;color:red;" ><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">The Tapscott Sessions Vol. 8</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Nimbus West (NS2258C)</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc2WOnVViNx0hgbzppsf8YJTod_SombmYXdWd46S5TkGLjrcekbFJJh3hMiL1Q0Y9frTwROCCquGQWSHMtOfI6mxBTvLs0QocwLeDOVa4lHnN-l06HIiC9YksWP4i6roCIJUgHDg/s1600-h/tapscott-sessions-vol.8.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 318px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc2WOnVViNx0hgbzppsf8YJTod_SombmYXdWd46S5TkGLjrcekbFJJh3hMiL1Q0Y9frTwROCCquGQWSHMtOfI6mxBTvLs0QocwLeDOVa4lHnN-l06HIiC9YksWP4i6roCIJUgHDg/s320/tapscott-sessions-vol.8.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441885765216450130" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">CD only</span></span></span></span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >Santa Barbara, 1982-1984</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Horace Tapscott</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">piano</span></span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Fire Waltz (M.Waldron)</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br />- Little Niles (R.Weston)</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br />- Crepuscule With Nellie (T.Monk)</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br />- As A Child (H.Tapscott)</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >Horace Tapscott<br /></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;color:red;" ><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >The Tapscott Sessions Vol. 9</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Nimbus West (NS 2369 C)</span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvDHInjdP5e2a3fOHgYV4XCmpuRYVWpRYX1SN4LL8E99NZKTGZhZAeEW3XbdyWVxWUtBQL28D9howCQgHOR6q_U5rkAB8KXhPPG_KctD0x4fAtQfY_pvZJ5g1l9AaTU-bOmbj4Xg/s1600-h/tapscott-sessions-vol.9.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 318px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvDHInjdP5e2a3fOHgYV4XCmpuRYVWpRYX1SN4LL8E99NZKTGZhZAeEW3XbdyWVxWUtBQL28D9howCQgHOR6q_U5rkAB8KXhPPG_KctD0x4fAtQfY_pvZJ5g1l9AaTU-bOmbj4Xg/s320/tapscott-sessions-vol.9.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441885761149687442" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">CD only</span></span></span></span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >Santa Barbara, 1983</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Horace Tapscott </span><span style="font-style: italic;color:black;" >piano</span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br />- It Never Happened Before (H.Tapscott)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Fleurette Africaine (D.Ellington)</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br />- Afro-Blue (M.Santamaria)<br />- Love In Bloom (H.Tapscott)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Strollin’ (H.Silver)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Whisper Not (B.Golson)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Fair-To-Middlin’ (H.Tapscott)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise (S.Romberg)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Anwar (H.Tapscott)</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;color:red;" ><br /><br /></span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >Horace Tapscott<br /></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >The Tapscott Sessions Vol. 10</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Nimbus West (NS237</span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">0C)</span></span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLEMCdb30ULBBfhdx4EInvZNSE9c74k1hVVWP6buANvdWLvEqgGenzjNi3ZIZGkJizshYh5vaEhDsi-6tYHxAp3ghSv9i65aUBeuP1eVXE-uxlOa5lb0TI9TXqLVMz3E0jG3rzzw/s1600-h/tapscott-sessions-vol.10.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 318px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLEMCdb30ULBBfhdx4EInvZNSE9c74k1hVVWP6buANvdWLvEqgGenzjNi3ZIZGkJizshYh5vaEhDsi-6tYHxAp3ghSv9i65aUBeuP1eVXE-uxlOa5lb0TI9TXqLVMz3E0jG3rzzw/s320/tapscott-sessions-vol.10.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441905006645207586" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">CD only</span></span></span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"></span><br />Santa Barbara, 1982-1984</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Horace Tapscott</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">piano</span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br />- Miguel (H.Tapscott)</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br />- Roses In Bloom (H.Tapscott)<br />- Ballad For Samuel (H.Tapscott)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- First Love (H.Tapscott)<br />- Searching (H.Tapscott)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Afternoon In Paris (J.Lewis)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Upside Down (H.Tapscott)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Getting Ready (H.Tapscott)</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br />- Maya And Me (H.Tapscott)</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >Horace Tapscott<br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >The Tapscott Sessions Vol. 11</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >Nimbus West (NS2581C)<br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf-N6Yz9hUTsp6uwV3h4sxtQfLuMBsdfmnyk98IKmy-DokN2qCZxhQ_39-ckr4JGIH2_rmm-KOUkHMU2v16MQo8fJsninLWwyuoNMuZgm-FJz3jqem6__ybqyGWgndteoG53v2gA/s1600-h/tapscottsessionsvol11.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 319px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf-N6Yz9hUTsp6uwV3h4sxtQfLuMBsdfmnyk98IKmy-DokN2qCZxhQ_39-ckr4JGIH2_rmm-KOUkHMU2v16MQo8fJsninLWwyuoNMuZgm-FJz3jqem6__ybqyGWgndteoG53v2gA/s320/tapscottsessionsvol11.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441905011014449362" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">CD only</span></span></span></span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >Santa Barbara, 1982-1984</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Horace Tapscott</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >piano</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br />- Nica’s Dream (H.Silver)<br />- Besame Mucho (C.Velazquez)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- For Patrice (H.Tapscott)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- A Call for All Demons (Sun Ra)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Full House (H.Tapscott)<br />- Long Ago (H.Tapscott)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Straight Street (J.Coltrane)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Vigilance (H.Tapscott)<br />- Sabroso (H.Tapscott)<br />- This is for Kenny (E.Hope)<br />- Wistful Vista (H.Tapscott)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Vox Populi (H.Tapscott)<br /><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >Dadisi Komolafe<br /><em>Hassan’s Walk</em></span><br /></strong><span style="font-size:85%;">Nimbus (NS-3035)<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX4x_NRQrtyH3T9DDpk9L_YV3ZolRavQeVxzBlN90t7suQSptkzUjOuce2JyUuPJuAsECH5qaft3engGBD7wXFPSgQmikf66vcKcY6s7tg4Pgn6NzrA8FbnptlXgknQ_B9SYKGdQ/s1600-h/dadisi-komolafe.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 306px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX4x_NRQrtyH3T9DDpk9L_YV3ZolRavQeVxzBlN90t7suQSptkzUjOuce2JyUuPJuAsECH5qaft3engGBD7wXFPSgQmikf66vcKcY6s7tg4Pgn6NzrA8FbnptlXgknQ_B9SYKGdQ/s320/dadisi-komolafe.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441961273681589938" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">CD reissue: Nimbus West (NS 3035 C)</span></span><br />Los Angeles, October, 1983<br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Dadisi Komolafe</span> </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>alto </em></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>saxophone, flute</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Rickey Kelly</span> <em>vibes</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Eric Tillman</span> <em>piano</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Roberto Miranda</span> <em>bass</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Sonship Theus</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">drums</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">- Hassan’s Walk (D.Komolafe)<br />- Speak No Evil (W.Shorter)<br />- Calvary (Traditional)<br />- ‘Round Midnight (T.Monk) </span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><strong>Rickey Kelly<br /><em>Limited Stops Only</em></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Nimbus (NS-3146)<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHyZZZIYL7QpJ17DAQqey8et7GS4JI_bwHpT48kfh7-Gc2kFOio1_YTtSIhf0nhwAIGvNDzUsciJ8rBFOY6dKZMivDvrlvtZ9m5r6N4wwb7kvLApmxAgzOS3s20oAMP-TyXuiDkQ/s1600-h/rickey-kelly.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 307px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHyZZZIYL7QpJ17DAQqey8et7GS4JI_bwHpT48kfh7-Gc2kFOio1_YTtSIhf0nhwAIGvNDzUsciJ8rBFOY6dKZMivDvrlvtZ9m5r6N4wwb7kvLApmxAgzOS3s20oAMP-TyXuiDkQ/s320/rickey-kelly.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441959098745156882" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">LP only</span></span><br />Los Angeles, October, 1983<br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Rickey Kelly</span> <em>vibes</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Dadisi Komolafe</span> <em>flute</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">David E. Tillman</span> <em>piano</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">James Leary, III</span> <em>bass</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Sherman Ferguson</span> <em>drums</em><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">- Distant Vibes (R.Kelly)<br />- Flying Colors (R.Ford)<br />- Yesterdays (J.Kern)<br />- Same Shame (B.Hutcherson)<br />- Dolphin Dance (H.Hancock)<br />- Lush Life (B.Strayhorn)<br /></span></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Nate Morgan<br /><em>Journey Into Nigritia</em></span></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Nimbus (NS 3257)<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjBoSsQw3pg3rZuQ-OUH_jqG74dpeZrVee-oUUtfeus-_xPnlm0ikQUEWuHGAnkOOCIlkKssxDCLjvpiVwwUsKA8uQO23aqx27jOeYwi35JGV9Jp8x6ElC-JNyGbFRP-IJfGZcDw/s1600-h/nate-morgan_journey-into.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 306px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjBoSsQw3pg3rZuQ-OUH_jqG74dpeZrVee-oUUtfeus-_xPnlm0ikQUEWuHGAnkOOCIlkKssxDCLjvpiVwwUsKA8uQO23aqx27jOeYwi35JGV9Jp8x6ElC-JNyGbFRP-IJfGZcDw/s320/nate-morgan_journey-into.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441961289952237394" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">CD reissue: Céleste (CMYK-6211)</span></span><br />Los Angeles, 1983<br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Nate Morgan</span> <em>piano</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Dadisi Komolafe</span> <em>alto saxophone</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Jeff Littleton</span> <em>bass</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Fritz Wise</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">drums</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">- Mrafu (N.Morgan)<br />- Morning Prayer (N.Morgan)<br />- Mother (N.Morgan)<br />- Journey Into Nigritia (N.Morgan)<br />- He Left Us A Song (N.Morgan)<br />- Study In C.T. (N.Morgan)<br /></span><br /><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Curtis Clark<br /><em>Phantasmagoria</em></span></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Nimbus (3368)<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFzDtGmENQzjqmPhm3nY8RXurbFMczOxOOU05gUojhR2d3gsfuHj06JECVgomd4bBbfqLvcs5cpo4Cn_6CL9kvtGMUgq-bYoqQMAJEG6I9253DsJaoAbxoc6K6ef-zQMpt6wB-eg/s1600-h/curtis-clark_phantasmagoria.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 308px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFzDtGmENQzjqmPhm3nY8RXurbFMczOxOOU05gUojhR2d3gsfuHj06JECVgomd4bBbfqLvcs5cpo4Cn_6CL9kvtGMUgq-bYoqQMAJEG6I9253DsJaoAbxoc6K6ef-zQMpt6wB-eg/s320/curtis-clark_phantasmagoria.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441956181345918626" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">LP only</span><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Los Angeles, January, 1984<br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Curtis Clark</span> <em>piano, clarinet<br /></em><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Roberto Miranda</span> <em>bass</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Sonship Theus</span> <em>drums</em></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em></em><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">- Phantasmagoria (C.Clark)<br />- Bouquet (For Dorien Van Stokkom) (C.Clark)<br />- Missing Persons (C.Clark)<br />- Thought Of One (C.Clark)<br /></span><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><strong>Nate Morgan<br /><em>Retribution, Reparation</em></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Nimbus (3479)<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzZfDis52J85Inb69UcVnjzrDbLHJcFsbJS9WTOX8zZNQnV1UG6eeJ90j7cWk7aucUHPRYhaVzb-Q_3lTyqvZ86TjKesnyGDwdffWJeCGUGD_lx2U47BKBAEGkYo6fl6SObyq44Q/s1600-h/nate-morgan_retribution,-re.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 308px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzZfDis52J85Inb69UcVnjzrDbLHJcFsbJS9WTOX8zZNQnV1UG6eeJ90j7cWk7aucUHPRYhaVzb-Q_3lTyqvZ86TjKesnyGDwdffWJeCGUGD_lx2U47BKBAEGkYo6fl6SObyq44Q/s320/nate-morgan_retribution,-re.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441961290799831874" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">CD reissue: Nimbus West (NS 3479 C)</span></span><br />Los Angeles, 1984<br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Nate Morgan</span> <em>piano</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Danny Cortez</span> <em>trumpet</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Jesse Sharps</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">reeds</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Joel Ector</span> <em>bass</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Fritz Wise</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">drums</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">- U.G.M.A.A.GER (N.Morgan)<br />- Impulse (N.Morgan)<br />- Mass Madness (N.Morgan)<br />- Retribution, Reparation (N.Morgan)<br />- One Finger Snap (H.Hancock)<br />- Come Sunday (D.Ellington)<br /></span><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Curtis Clark<br /><em>Deep Sea Diver</em></span></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Nimbus (3580)<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNMZLtII9Qhe_dzWax5wXhy1kKrPT4kbNhaphl81T_J8jJHcTBt_9a62gi68MBeMKprtyRicS-CqX5GAN6DV5bEMeK2lufWFyqxoFQZKCVA3jJbjLyVuPpzqNbqeBMR-R4GUkimA/s1600-h/curtis-clark_deep.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNMZLtII9Qhe_dzWax5wXhy1kKrPT4kbNhaphl81T_J8jJHcTBt_9a62gi68MBeMKprtyRicS-CqX5GAN6DV5bEMeK2lufWFyqxoFQZKCVA3jJbjLyVuPpzqNbqeBMR-R4GUkimA/s320/curtis-clark_deep.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441956175840048018" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">LP only</span><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Los Angeles, March, 1985<br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Curtis Clark</span> <em>piano</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Merlene Holsey</span> <em>vocals *</em><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">- Rainbow Over Harlem (C.Clark)<br />- Cosmic Minstrels (C.Clark)<br />- Deep Sea Diver (C.Clark)<br />- Farewell Gentle Spirit (For Rev. Frank J. </span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Harper) (C.Clark)<br />- Broken Mirror Reflections (C.Clark) *<br />- Amy Yvonne (C.Clark)<br />- Rainbow Over Harlem (C.Clark)<br /></span><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><strong>Curtis Clark<br /><em>Amsterdam Sunshine</em></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Nimbus (3691)<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTp1DV_GMUnYLw_B-llDwNqokrNAvjVYKtayMGybTu3jFTG71fAySrAMI9Cj0gL7oltIb-yHc6PoaA9xXRijU_RRhYRo4mssBywFS3gVOJ2lIHQ7-nHvNkwxO7FkH9UBMhcIQh2Q/s1600-h/curtis-clark_amsterdam-suns.1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 308px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTp1DV_GMUnYLw_B-llDwNqokrNAvjVYKtayMGybTu3jFTG71fAySrAMI9Cj0gL7oltIb-yHc6PoaA9xXRijU_RRhYRo4mssBywFS3gVOJ2lIHQ7-nHvNkwxO7FkH9UBMhcIQh2Q/s320/curtis-clark_amsterdam-suns.1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442002015123329698" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">LP only</span><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Amsterdam, November, 1984</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Curtis Clark</span> <em>piano</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Michael Moore</span> <em></em></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>alto </em></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>saxophone</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Ernst Reijseger</span> <em>cello</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Ernst Glerum</span> <em>bass</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Dom Mumford</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">drums</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">- Daniel/Amsterdam Sunshine (For Daniel Halifee) (C.Clark)<br />- Peu De Sentiment (For Joe Clark) (C.Clark)<br />- Thought Of One (C.Clark)<br />- Twinkle In The Old Man’s Eyes (For Daniel Clark) (C.Clark)<br />- Portrait Of Judy (For Judy Sneed) (C.Clark)<br />- Flore (For Hilde Van Stokkum) (C.Clark)<br />- Thought Of One (2nd Version) (C.Clark)</span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Jesse Sharps<br /><em>Sharps And Flats</em></span></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Nimbus West (NS 3702 C)<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUJ_m2nRXDUe_DLmBDlkbnsvpSR-r9_zIAN8mj5YqnEEToM9xqtWedQWs1B77nUiAVIIHAg20u48znlS81Ar9UJULmOCRJWSIuqY4-1cZaeefGRsXwjizCshbdcbbhgtl8vN8wFw/s1600-h/jesse-sharps.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUJ_m2nRXDUe_DLmBDlkbnsvpSR-r9_zIAN8mj5YqnEEToM9xqtWedQWs1B77nUiAVIIHAg20u48znlS81Ar9UJULmOCRJWSIuqY4-1cZaeefGRsXwjizCshbdcbbhgtl8vN8wFw/s320/jesse-sharps.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441965348604637938" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">CD only,</span><br /></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">*</span></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> previously unissued track by the Pan-Afrikan Peoples Arkestra </span></span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">(from the</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Live at </span></span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;color:red;" ><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">the I.U.C.C.</span> </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">sessions)</span></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><i><br /></i></span>Los Angeles, 1985<br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Jesse Sharps</span> <i>reeds</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Steve Smith </span><i>trumpet</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Nate Morgan</span> <i>piano</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Horace Tapscott</span> <i>piano</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Joel Ector</span> <i>bass</i><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Carl Burnett</span> <i>drums</i></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em></em><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">- The Goat And Ram Jam (J.Sharps)<br />- Question (J.Sharps)<br />- Macramé (J.Sharps)<br />- Mike’s Tune (J.Sharps)<br />- As A Child (H.Tapscott)<br />- Carnival (J.Sharps)<br />- McKowsky’s First Fifth (J.Sharps) *<br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Curtis Clark<br /><em>Dreams Deferred</em></span></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Nimbus (NS 3813 C)<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvzjaaI7TkKB0IAg-bGJenmfm9CN955e2tm0pRHCJAB20n5FKJmXJEf12SVsxaZwRnE9DOllVJbhLZsEBZ_KM52HYH-dAqpFak3RNkDIOrSvtxEO4Ta3xEzKvVBEfjQm1nO30aUg/s1600-h/curtis-clark_dream-deferred.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvzjaaI7TkKB0IAg-bGJenmfm9CN955e2tm0pRHCJAB20n5FKJmXJEf12SVsxaZwRnE9DOllVJbhLZsEBZ_KM52HYH-dAqpFak3RNkDIOrSvtxEO4Ta3xEzKvVBEfjQm1nO30aUg/s320/curtis-clark_dream-deferred.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442002016153269426" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">CD only</span><br /></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Amsterdam, 1993</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Curtis Clark</span> <em>piano</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Wayne Dockery</span> <em>bass</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Louis Moholo</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">drums</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Sean Bergin</span> <em></em></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em> soprano and tenor </em></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>saxophones</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Tobias Delius</span> <em></em></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em> tenor </em></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>saxophone</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Felicity Provan</span> <em>trumpet, vocals</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Tristan Honsinger</span> <em>cello</em><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">- Light Blue (T.Monk)<br />- Worry Later / San Francisco Holiday (T.Monk)<br />- Well You Needn't (T.Monk)<br />- Monk's Mood (T.Monk)<br />- Misterioso (T.Monk)<br />- Two Shadows In The Mist (C.Clark)<br />- Scratched (C.Clark)<br />- Sean (C.Clark)<br />- Diaphane (C.Clark)<br />- Nelson (C.Clark)<br />- All The Things You Are (J.Kern)<br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >Curtis Clark<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Reach, Believe It & Play</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Nimbus (NS 3924 C)<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWtieJf79SbR2MVW2eTuPL_hxpnXkHXiMtqe5Mg-Q9z2J_ZF1LaIFpC9-qR1Zx6sZD7Fto68k3KyDk5tlHUqO_D9o2ADG8HWlayO42oVTpyPheXhY_mMYIldCmFbpNXZLsGLroXg/s1600-h/curtisclark_reachbelieveit&.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 317px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWtieJf79SbR2MVW2eTuPL_hxpnXkHXiMtqe5Mg-Q9z2J_ZF1LaIFpC9-qR1Zx6sZD7Fto68k3KyDk5tlHUqO_D9o2ADG8HWlayO42oVTpyPheXhY_mMYIldCmFbpNXZLsGLroXg/s320/curtisclark_reachbelieveit&.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441959081648424002" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">CD only</span></span><br />Los Angeles, probably 1984-1985</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Curtis Clark</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">piano</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">- Boogie Stomp (C.Clark)<br />- Monk Me (C.Clark)<br />- Renuphee (C.Clark)<br />- Everlasting Love (C.Clark)<br />- Reach (C.Clark)<br />- Believe It (C.Clark)<br />- Play (C.Clark)<br /></span><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >Horace Tapscott</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" ><br />Lighthouse 79 - vol.1</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >Nimbus West (NS 4035 C)</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgInuh261lsL47IRwiovNWdWRx2yvPpW2AIzoIDqBEPWwZCaUsTh6H2eBBCcMr3SJl2vi9f9nQ2o32DFNZdDhG0Wkv7An-u0i452XT85sejbEY-ma04Z18Ys6G3e9bhYU06MXRz1g/s1600-h/lighthouse-79-vol.1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 313px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgInuh261lsL47IRwiovNWdWRx2yvPpW2AIzoIDqBEPWwZCaUsTh6H2eBBCcMr3SJl2vi9f9nQ2o32DFNZdDhG0Wkv7An-u0i452XT85sejbEY-ma04Z18Ys6G3e9bhYU06MXRz1g/s320/lighthouse-79-vol.1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441997832039353570" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">CD only</span></span><br />Hermosa Beach, October 10, 1979</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Horace Tapscott</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >piano</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Regie Bullen</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >trumpet</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Gary Bias</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >alto saxoph</span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >o</span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >ne</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Roberto Miranda</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >bass</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >David Bryant</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >bass</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />George Goldsmith</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >drums</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br />- Akirfa</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" > (L.Robertson</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >)</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br />- Dem' Folks (L.Hill)</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br />- I Remember Clifford (B.Golson)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Leland's Song</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" > (L.Hill)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Acirfa</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" > (L.Robertson</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >)</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >Horace Tapscott</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >Lighthouse 79 - vol.2</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >Nimbus West</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" > (NS 4146 C)</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgty-rE46IPe_gd2g7obXoSb4lXIGmYYJ1qXANtYCfiQc8TVpz6W9BELBWZFgisSeCkXiv0UWwUzJ2S_JLGxue-pOH28L8Yx7u0lYsEmewlI596tlFLqbh3VkF1j7h3wt6yxaF9Rw/s1600-h/lighthouse-79-vol.2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 315px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgty-rE46IPe_gd2g7obXoSb4lXIGmYYJ1qXANtYCfiQc8TVpz6W9BELBWZFgisSeCkXiv0UWwUzJ2S_JLGxue-pOH28L8Yx7u0lYsEmewlI596tlFLqbh3VkF1j7h3wt6yxaF9Rw/s320/lighthouse-79-vol.2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441997833553548242" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">CD only</span></span><br /></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >Hermosa Beach, October 11, 1979</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Horace Tapscott</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >piano</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Regie Bullen</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >trumpet</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Gary Bias</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >alto saxoph</span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >o</span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >ne</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Roberto Miranda</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >bass</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >David Bryant</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >bass</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />George Goldsmith</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >drums</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Akirfa</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" > (L.Robertson</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >)</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br />- Niger's Theme</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" > (</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >H.Tapscott</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >)<br />- Stella by Starlight (V.Young/N.Washington)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Lush Life</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" > (</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >B.Strayhorn</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Inspiration Of Silence</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >(E.Straughter</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >)</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >The Nimbus Collective</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >Live In Lotusland</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >Nimbus West</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" > (NS 4257 C)</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqzYLKu42PjHS85gVOa1kHZdfFAuVwYqfmnQCp1T7ii3cBsS3aubAmZ9ydP_RmQ6dTGzOKITXFQVbQR62UghEWH3eER2kABrpt4Ci3bWgXu3VeGsanfNs770RKttVXckIxq0edtQ/s1600/nimbus-collective.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 318px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqzYLKu42PjHS85gVOa1kHZdfFAuVwYqfmnQCp1T7ii3cBsS3aubAmZ9ydP_RmQ6dTGzOKITXFQVbQR62UghEWH3eER2kABrpt4Ci3bWgXu3VeGsanfNs770RKttVXckIxq0edtQ/s320/nimbus-collective.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5521522324428852962" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">CD only</span></span><br /></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >Santa Barbara, July, 1987</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Dany Cortez</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >trumpet</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Jesse Sharps</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >reeds</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Rickey Kelly</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >vibes</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Nate Morgan</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >piano</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Joel Ector</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >bass</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Derek Roberts</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >drums</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Retribution, Reparation</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" > (N.Morgan</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >)</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br />- Big Spliff</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" > (</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >J.Ector</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >)<br />- Well You Needn't (T.Monk)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- A bientôt</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" > (</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >B.Taylor</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- The Goat And The Ram Jam</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >(J.Sharps</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >)<br />- Distant Vibes (R.Kelly)<br />- Mrafu (N.Morgan)<br />- Mfaconi (R.Kelly)<br />- Journey Into Nigritia (N.Morgan)<br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Curtis Clark<br /><em>Letter To South Africa</em></span></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Nimbus (NS501C)<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_BZdr4vMg-havZtPmSa5ScFhSbSCrBlk_L1vE70nTVm_yCxNCveDht8h6UfGMJtQ4bJd8qewqziHWcuTfTA_wTfTifV1bXumL9q0NhM4htmv7QEn2B-kxTxoI6mMn1XFcGQotiQ/s1600-h/curtis-clark_letter-to-sout.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 318px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_BZdr4vMg-havZtPmSa5ScFhSbSCrBlk_L1vE70nTVm_yCxNCveDht8h6UfGMJtQ4bJd8qewqziHWcuTfTA_wTfTifV1bXumL9q0NhM4htmv7QEn2B-kxTxoI6mMn1XFcGQotiQ/s320/curtis-clark_letter-to-sout.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442003339563761314" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">CD only</span><br /></span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >Amsterdam, late</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"> 80s</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Curtis Clark</span> <em>piano</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">John Tchicai</span> <em></em></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em> tenor </em></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>saxophone</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Ernst Reijseger</span> <em>cello</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Ernst Glerum</span> <em>bass</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Louis Moholo</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">drums</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">- Serious Wishing (For Winnie Mandela) (C.Clark)<br />- Letter To South Africa (C.Clark)<br />- Twilight Union (C.Clark)<br />- What Price Freedom (C.Clark)<br />- Admission Of Guilt (C.Clark)<br />- Circumstancial Blues (C.Clark)<br />- Cape Town 2048 (C.Clark)</span><br /><br /><strong></strong></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong></strong></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Sean Bergin and M.O.B.<br /><em>Kids Mysteries</em></span></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Nimbus (NS 502 C)<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNgP3t96lqbGNqu9T6qOadvG4texORJ9SwwFAksBUpmnNbhtIcuWLvsYNtghLRnL_PywBg_D8PRerhs7_ny4yCukBBd6v-jn3d_3CxkYDrfyhKtNkNyyNMp7bdTiLVGgNTJvlqXQ/s1600-h/sean-bergin.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 317px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNgP3t96lqbGNqu9T6qOadvG4texORJ9SwwFAksBUpmnNbhtIcuWLvsYNtghLRnL_PywBg_D8PRerhs7_ny4yCukBBd6v-jn3d_3CxkYDrfyhKtNkNyyNMp7bdTiLVGgNTJvlqXQ/s320/sean-bergin.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442003351115213378" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">CD only</span></span><br />Amsterdam, late 80s<br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Sean Bergin</span> <em></em></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em> alto and tenor </em></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>saxophones<br /></em><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Michael Moore</span> <em></em></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em> alto </em></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>saxophone and clarinet</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Jan Willem Van Der Ham</span> <em></em></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>alto </em></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>saxophone, bassoon</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Alex Maguire</span> <em>piano</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Ernst Reijseger</span> </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>cello</em></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Tristan Honsinger</span> <em>cello</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Wolter Wierbos</span> <em>trombone</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Eric Boeren</span> <em>trumpet</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Ernst Glerum</span> <em>bass</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Han Bennink</span> <em>drums</em><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">- Purtles (S.Bergin)<br />- Ice Cream Man (S.Bergin)<br />- Poor Poise (S.Bergin)<br />- Tea And Scones (S.Bergin)<br />- Monkey Woman (S.Bergin)<br />- Thoko’s Tune (S.Bergin)<br />- Beach Balls (S.Bergin)<br />- Kids – Trainride (S.Bergin)</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Ernst Reijseger & Alan Purves<br /><em>TA</em></span></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Nimbus (NS 503 C)<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF9wuV4axYLEh-olFyfbupzFDCXQPRkQTIQELTtZ_45ATtDH9YlU8fPTtUmyKnoka9Pro4BxMcQUE3a1xfgeQvZhBaSwa10O57TR-NIgUaq6o-bq3FpOhCx3O0CIG2t0NLH0sjvw/s1600-h/ernst-reijseger-&-alan-purv.1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 319px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF9wuV4axYLEh-olFyfbupzFDCXQPRkQTIQELTtZ_45ATtDH9YlU8fPTtUmyKnoka9Pro4BxMcQUE3a1xfgeQvZhBaSwa10O57TR-NIgUaq6o-bq3FpOhCx3O0CIG2t0NLH0sjvw/s320/ernst-reijseger-&-alan-purv.1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442003354726951426" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">CD only</span><br /></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Los Angeles, April 12, 1987</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Ernst Reijseger</span> <em>cello</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Alan Purves</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">drums</span><em>, percussions</em><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">- Where Is The Light? (E.Reijseger/A.Purves)<br />- Spinal Chord (E.Reijseger/A.Purves)<br />- Raspberry (E.Reijseger/A.Purves)<br />- Sweating In The Rain (E.Reijseger/A.Purves)<br />- Time’s Sake (E.Reijseger/A.Purves)<br />- How Great Thow Art (M.Moore)<br />- Once Upon A Time In A Wee (E.Reijseger/A.Purves)<br />- Green House (A.Purves)<br />- Rin Tin Tin (E.Reijseger)<br />- Walkabout (E.Reijseger/A.Purves)<br />- Professor Picardi (E.Reijseger/A.Purves)<br />- Titled (E.Reijseger/A.Purves)<br />- Untitled (E.Reijseger/A.Purves)<br />- Off The Ca (Traditional)</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><br /><strong></strong><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><strong>Narada Burton Greene<br /><em>Solo Orchestra In Real Time</em></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Nimbus (NS 504 C)<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhexWMfzVV6zNelhcc1HqF5CbReHR2oLRHNolDi-19cR4JBjm9j3q_8JM8m2FuUaWLErvn6WxRFRy1aFkk_gyDuDcIMGhYDEUBHjYi7h7_7K8MTbU5YiwbOutCXw9IvFSvWWVFREQ/s1600-h/narada-burton-greene.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhexWMfzVV6zNelhcc1HqF5CbReHR2oLRHNolDi-19cR4JBjm9j3q_8JM8m2FuUaWLErvn6WxRFRy1aFkk_gyDuDcIMGhYDEUBHjYi7h7_7K8MTbU5YiwbOutCXw9IvFSvWWVFREQ/s320/narada-burton-greene.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442003361572477474" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">CD only</span><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Amsterdam, May 9 & June 7, 1989<br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Narada Burton Greene</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">keyboards</span><em> and electronics<br /></em><span style="font-size:85%;">- I The Horny Orch. Suite… For Bob Graettinger (N.B.Greene)<br />1 Introduction<br />2 Wind Chorus Plus Green Horns<br />3 The Horny Orch.<br />- II Night Music For A Summer Afternoon... For Bela Bartok (N.B.Greene)<br />- III Toy-Mita Orchestral Variations... For Charles Ives (N.B.Greene)</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><em></em></strong></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><em></em></strong></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Curtis Clark<br /><em>Live At The Bimhuis</em></span></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Nimbus (NS 505 C)<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKfl2m_Ro1UTrfy976ZX4tzTeACwmQnhrTqq-s3iWUUg6GEa21OJ2FsP4hGt7SLSQYyU7ywhQYAzq_cxM3NEsLv2C-TYfMDeX-C6bwjiURvgijEqnIiYwCo1gLZanbN171rSjvGQ/s1600-h/curtis-clark_live-at-the-bi.1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 317px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKfl2m_Ro1UTrfy976ZX4tzTeACwmQnhrTqq-s3iWUUg6GEa21OJ2FsP4hGt7SLSQYyU7ywhQYAzq_cxM3NEsLv2C-TYfMDeX-C6bwjiURvgijEqnIiYwCo1gLZanbN171rSjvGQ/s320/curtis-clark_live-at-the-bi.1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442003350293482066" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">CD only</span><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Amsterdam, October, 1988</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Curtis Clark</span> <em>piano</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Andy Sheppard</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">reeds</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Ernst Reijseger</span> <em>cello</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Ernst Glerum</span> <em>bass</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Louis Moholo</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">drums</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Jan Piet Visser</span> <em>harmonica</em><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">- Reincarnation Of Biggar Thomas (C.Clark)<br />- With A Little Help Of My Friends (J.Lennon/P.McCartney)<br />- Boo-Related (C.Clark)<br />- Deep Sea Diver (C.Clark)<br />- As Time Goes By (H.Hupfeld)<br />- Special Delivery (C.Clark)<br />- Strings Of Ecstasy (For Django Reinhardt) (C.Clark)<br />- Boogie Stomp (For Amos & Andy) (C.Clark)<br />- Cosmic Minstrels (C.Clark)</span><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><strong>Amsterdam String Trio<br /><em>Wild West – Live At Santa Barbara</em></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Nimbus (NS 506 C)<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1vU_IZplvq_0HEvj55dJteKiuyythXNj6XNk3DtJYcj23lhmO39r6KkdAAM1u7NzPaZ3NR5ug2otlYhsdiedA_CCFzTFt7loFQEoaABYj0yVohvfZlIXaXircW0zkLjtoUc4bEg/s1600-h/amsterdam-string-trio.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 317px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1vU_IZplvq_0HEvj55dJteKiuyythXNj6XNk3DtJYcj23lhmO39r6KkdAAM1u7NzPaZ3NR5ug2otlYhsdiedA_CCFzTFt7loFQEoaABYj0yVohvfZlIXaXircW0zkLjtoUc4bEg/s320/amsterdam-string-trio.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442005532130285490" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />CD only</span><br />Santa Barbara, December 2, 1988</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Maurice Horsthuis</span> <em>viola</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Ernst Reijseger</span> <em>cello</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Ernst Glerum</span> <em>bass</em><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">- Tripot (M.Horsthuis)<br />- ...Vnl. Uit Muziek & Kartonnen Dozen... (M.Horsthuis)<br />- La Tour Qui Chante (M.Horsthuis)<br />- Footie Waltz (M.Horsthuis)<br />- Sint & Piet (J.Horsthuis)<br />- Trench Muzak (M.Horsthuis)<br />- Ghemoeielijk & Makkelijk (M.Horsthuis)<br />- Pontius (M.Horsthuis)<br />- Arrivo (M.Horsthuis)</span><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong></strong></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><strong>Daniele D’Agaro<br /><em>Lingua Franca</em></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Nimbus (NS 507 C)<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikudHWE1sUGPLi4nZTDpigpP5IU8OC-Y6wd7b9AiPVIPw7EPzfCCEsu2K9Oa4cjc2VCCXDsws-TpH9_c-ay16r5vROidVbEjP4yrnAH7xjVNn2sj-XBeISSwzYnXBJb0s9YqQHGw/s1600-h/daniele-dagaro.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 316px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikudHWE1sUGPLi4nZTDpigpP5IU8OC-Y6wd7b9AiPVIPw7EPzfCCEsu2K9Oa4cjc2VCCXDsws-TpH9_c-ay16r5vROidVbEjP4yrnAH7xjVNn2sj-XBeISSwzYnXBJb0s9YqQHGw/s320/daniele-dagaro.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443708296682541874" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">CD only</span><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Amsterdam, June 28, 1989<br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Daniele D’Agaro</span> <em>clarinet</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Tristan Honsinger</span> <em>cello</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Ernst Glerum</span> <em>bass</em><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">- Flo-Walsje (D.D’Agaro)<br />- Qualche Volta / Polka / Zachila (D.D’Agaro/Traditional/T.Delius)<br />- Il Nonno / Jack The Knife / Couples (T.Honsinger)<br />- Real World Cut-Out (T.Honsinger)<br />- Wee-Wee / Bouja / Semaforo (D.D’Agaro/T.Honsinger/D.D’Agaro)<br />- Sotto Bicchiere (D.D’Agaro)<br />- Lights Off (T.Honsinger)<br />- Ever Never (T.Honsinger)<br />- Proprio Cosi (D.D’Agaro)<br /></span><br /><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><strong></strong></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Nate Morgan<br /><em>Live In Santa Barbara</em></span></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Nimbus (NS 508 C)<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuIv8A0IssKA5wYiwTUKdrO-rWgsFnEO9Jmo0nNf0JhpIXA-t2mV4AyPZbLQuGqyQsLmc10Si3HUZ5edMVJaOvKDxu7cv2mWQVdvNO437C84ZparW_mfBbB-BMqvh3pnmxrlVXAw/s1600-h/nate-morgan_live.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuIv8A0IssKA5wYiwTUKdrO-rWgsFnEO9Jmo0nNf0JhpIXA-t2mV4AyPZbLQuGqyQsLmc10Si3HUZ5edMVJaOvKDxu7cv2mWQVdvNO437C84ZparW_mfBbB-BMqvh3pnmxrlVXAw/s320/nate-morgan_live.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441965342912652658" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">CD only</span></span><br />Santa Barbara, 1987<br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Nate Morgan</span> <em>piano</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Jeff Littleton</span> <em>bass</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Fritz Wise</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">drums</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">- All Blues (M.Davis)<br />- Forest Flower (C.Lloyd)<br />- In A Sentimental Mood (D.Ellington)<br />- Night In Tunisia (D.GillespieF.Paparelli)<br />- Darius The Bold (N.Morgan)<br />- Trench Muzak (Wash/Kapper)<br /></span><br /><br /></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >Horace Tapscott</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" ><br />Dissent Or Descent</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >Nimbus West (NS 509 C)</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWvidPork9_YXOe2hsjMXYKx9F6_o_s-D6S0_yRLyEfhKXLfCVqcF3diA0vVPLTgo1uwYfcx2NsIwpR0QAUNajDjx6S1iqFBoV0RhqCWO3N8AQikl4L2Le2GY_UIM1bnnKdvMPjQ/s1600-h/dissent-or-descent.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWvidPork9_YXOe2hsjMXYKx9F6_o_s-D6S0_yRLyEfhKXLfCVqcF3diA0vVPLTgo1uwYfcx2NsIwpR0QAUNajDjx6S1iqFBoV0RhqCWO3N8AQikl4L2Le2GY_UIM1bnnKdvMPjQ/s320/dissent-or-descent.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442006027001487874" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">CD only</span></span><br />New York and Santa Barbara, 1982-1984</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Horace Tapscott</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >piano</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Fred Hopkins</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >bass</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Ben Riley</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >drums</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br />- As A Child (H.Tapscott)<br />- Sandy And Niles (H.Tapscott)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- To The Great House (H.Tapscott)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Spellbound (C.Jordan)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Ballad For Samuel (H.Tapscott)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Ruby, My Dear (T.Monk)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >- Chico’s Back In Town (H.Tapscott)</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><em></em></strong><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><strong><em></em></strong></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Billie Harris<br /><em>I Want Some Water</em></span></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Nimbus (NS 510 C)<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrDUh666IbTuyWtdvGiPtFXd2tldURpSlQH-pYyUZnucwMjCtxAS1_SizFa2Ls5cNwPKBOCXGEcAsNv9l2uAKcQ1z3dzfxwH6GEM_gC4QSwNIRjuAPgtx2-dV0j1hP0QyX_OBctg/s1600-h/billie-harris.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 316px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrDUh666IbTuyWtdvGiPtFXd2tldURpSlQH-pYyUZnucwMjCtxAS1_SizFa2Ls5cNwPKBOCXGEcAsNv9l2uAKcQ1z3dzfxwH6GEM_gC4QSwNIRjuAPgtx2-dV0j1hP0QyX_OBctg/s320/billie-harris.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441959087749315282" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">CD only,</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">* & ** previously unissued tracks:</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">* by the Pan-Afrikan Peoples Arkestra </span></span></span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">(from the</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Live at </span></span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;color:red;" ><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">the I.U.C.C.</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">sessions)</span></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">,</span><br />** solo piano by Horace Tapscott (probably from </span></span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Tapscott Sessions</span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">)</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Los Angeles, 1983<br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Billie Harris</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">reeds</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Horace Tapscott</span> <em>piano</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">David Bryant</span> <em>bass</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Everett Brown, Jr.</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">drums</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Daaood Woods</span> <em>percussions</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Lorelei</span> <em>vocals</em><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">- Prayer Of Happiness (B.Harris)<br />- I Want Some Water (B.Harris)<br />- The Advocate (B.Harris)<br />- Blues For Lupé (B.Harris)<br />- Many Nights Ago (C.Crunk) *<br />- Why Don't You Listen? (H.Tapscott) **<br /></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Various Artists<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">L.A.'s Unsung</span></span></strong></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"> - Nimbus West Compilation</span></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Nimbus (NS 511 C)<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY6G6bwEKl_jWnn9vOf9T99BQtbIcPHRD5OI84sdp-aBqaf46VjOr-m6IbInF4njx-ZyB9QL-anDrzKFpvZ7yoCr0E_Q7cG6xPJ3hWIBQlNoh4PfXa8BiuLi55-9tgkCsltjQNwA/s1600-h/las-unsung.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 319px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY6G6bwEKl_jWnn9vOf9T99BQtbIcPHRD5OI84sdp-aBqaf46VjOr-m6IbInF4njx-ZyB9QL-anDrzKFpvZ7yoCr0E_Q7cG6xPJ3hWIBQlNoh4PfXa8BiuLi55-9tgkCsltjQNwA/s320/las-unsung.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443708295378507426" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">CD only</span></span><br />Los Angeles, 1980-1985<br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Featuring:</span><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Adele Sebastian</span> <em>flute, vocals</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Nate Morgan</span> <em>piano</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Jesse Sharps</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">reeds</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Billie Harris</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">reeds</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Kaeef Ruzadun</span> <em>piano</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">B.J. Crowley “Shaleethia”</span> <em>vocals</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Dadisi Komolafe</span> <em>flute, alto saxophone</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Rickey Kelly</span> <em>vibes, marimbas</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Roberto Miranda</span> <em>bass</em><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">- Desert Fairy Princess (J.Sharps) / Adele Sebastian<br />- U.G.M.A.A.GER (N.Morgan) / Nate Morgan<br />- Question (J.Sharps) / Jesse Sharps<br />- Prayer Of Happiness (B.Harris) / Billie Harris<br />- Stars In Light Year Time (K.Ruzadun) / Creative Arts Ensemble<br />- Mrafu (N.Morgan) / Nate Morgan<br />- Calvary (Traditional) / Dadisi Komolafe<br />- Same Shame (B.Hutcherson) / Rickey Kelly<br />- Raphael (R.Miranda) / Roberto Miranda</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><strong></strong></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><strong><em></em></strong></span><br /></div>bertrandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04478921099297575752noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24009309.post-1145569022755417602010-02-14T23:29:00.009+01:002010-03-08T13:30:16.812+01:00Horace Tapscott / Steven L. Isoardi: The Dark Tree - Jazz and the Community Arts in Los Angeles<div align="justify"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:180%;" ><strong><br /></strong></span><div style="text-align: right; font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://bjazz.blogspot.com/2010/02/this-blog-which-has-been-started-in.html" target="blank"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">-> INDEX</span><br /></a></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:180%;" ><strong><br /></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1733/2486/1600/BOOK%20dark%20tree.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1733/2486/320/BOOK%20dark%20tree.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 0);"><strong>The Dark Tree</strong> – Jazz and the Community Arts in Los Angeles</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);font-size:85%;" >De Steven L. Isoardi<br />University of California Press, 2006</span></span><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Le hasard faisant bien les choses, voilà que vient de paraître aux Etats-Unis le complément indispensable à mes précédents articles "<a href="http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/10479.html" target="blank"">The Dark Tree – Jazz and the Community Arts in Los Angeles</a>" nouvel ouvrage du sociologue Steven Isoardi. Après la biographie d’Horace Tapscott "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0822325314/103-5152375-8011802?v=glance&n=283155" target="blank"">Songs of the Unsung</a>", Steven Isoardi s’intéresse ici aux quelques trois cents artistes – musiciens, vocalistes, poètes, auteurs, peintres, sculpteurs, graphistes – qui ont côtoyé à Los Angeles pendant près de quarante ans le Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra et l’U.G.M.A.A. (Union of God’s Musicians and Artists Ascension).<br />Cerise sur le gâteau et petit évènement, le livre inclut un CD contenant près de 70 minutes de musique inédite provenant des archives d’Horace Tapscott. On y découvre entre autres et pour la première fois sur disque des enregistrements du Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra allant de 1969 à 1976 avec notamment les saxophonistes <a href="http://www.arthurblythe.com/" target="blank"">Arthur Blythe</a> et <a href="http://www.fuasi.com/index.htm" target="blank"">Fuasi Abdul-Khaliq</a>, le cornettiste <a href="http://www.conduction.us/" target="blank"">Butch Morris</a> et The Voice of U.G.M.A.A.…</span><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>bertrandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04478921099297575752noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24009309.post-1143764683884840922010-02-14T23:28:00.016+01:002011-10-08T01:54:36.810+02:00Horace Tapscott & the U.G.M.A.A.gers: Photos<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:180%;" ><strong><br /></strong></span></p><div style="text-align: right; font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://bjazz.blogspot.com/2010/02/this-blog-which-has-been-started-in.html" target="blank"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">-> INDEX</span></a><br /><br /></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:180%;" ><strong></strong></span><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2vrmhxRIBZpQuS2SdQXM5yT60yNIsPz55S85f86mT9zYQlbKFvS2gTaRPLjzsNv0mZl26RnzwDsFEvv7_EYL_m0ra2Kw0VFgpc2a-D1dd-E8PPOHv27RvmEfRoSJM8t0c5DbRMg/s1600-h/ugmaa.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 138px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJDEZnYeGcQVf0dtMrDdltxHyVYf-zzjL-aC06qRGnm9mpHo727jBjtXeS-gKjh1vrxGsZQn5ZDwQqpfrGS5584I5uq9TzMFP_zRjOo6GR91k2irF0pENNC-dONiMfpVnxWMzNHQ/s200/jazztimes.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437140658426740082" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">“I remember seing Art Tatum on the streets of Los Angeles. He was playing at the Clark Hotel on Washington and Central. His driver stopped the car for this 16 year old kid to cross the street. And then I felt the blind eye of Art Tatum’s staring into my face all the way across the crosswalk”.</span><o:p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"></o:p><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Horace Tapscott is reminiscing, something his b</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">reakneck schedule doesn’t usually allow. Tapscott is a trombone player turned pianist and is considered by some to be one of the most innovative</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> pianists playing today. Since 1961 he has led the Pan Afrikan</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Peoples Arkestra, an orchestra ranging in size from 13-35 players. For its work and style it has been compared to the Art Ensemble of Chicago and to Charles Mingus’ big bands. But while such former Arkestra alumni as Arthur Blythe and Azar Lawrence have gone on to national recognition, Tapscott himself remains in the shadows. To appreciate his story, it’s best to start at the beginning.</span><o:p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"></o:p><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Born in Houston, Texas on April 4, 1934, Tapscott grew up in a segregated part of the city in a long narrow “shotgun” house, “where the piano was always in the middle of the floorand had to be played”. His mother, Mary Lou Malone, a jazz pianist and tuba player in the local Church orchestra, took him to high school band concerts featuring classical and blues material on the weekends.</span><o:p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"></o:p><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> In 1945 the family moved to Los Angeles, settling into the South Central section of town. It was there his musical training commen</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ced. During his ninth grade year at Lafeyette Junior High, Dr. Samuel Browne visited the school picking out students for his Jefferson High swing band.</span><o:p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"></o:p><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Browne taught the young boy during his developing years from 1949-52 at Jeffersons. It was an impressive learning experience. Over the years Browne’s swing band includ</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ed </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Don Cherry, Eric Dolphy, Troy Brown, and Joe Villereal among others. Earlier bands of Browne’s nurtured the talents of Sonny Criss, Dexter Gordon and Art and Addison Farmer.</span><o:p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"></o:p><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> If young students worked hard at their musical studies in Dr. Browne’s arranging and harmony classes, the teacher recommended them for lessons with Lloyd Reese. Reese was a legendary instructor who’d taught greats like Wardell Gray, Big Jay McNeely and many others. Since Reese was also charging “big time dough”, Tapscott, Dolphy, Frank Morgan and other young students were allowed to pay for their lessons by cleaning Reese’s yard and house.</span><o:p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"></o:p><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> The backdrop of all of the academic training was a flourishing music culture – the Central Avenue Scene. Caught in the economic upswing of World War II, Central Avenue spawned a thriving night life where all types of music could be heard. Prominent musicians ranging from Duke Ellington, Count B</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">asie and Jay McShann to Bird and Howard McGhee all played the city on a regular basis, creating a musical renaissance.</span><o:p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"></o:p><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> These heady days influenced the young Tapscott immensely. He recalls, “The musicians unions were segregated then. The Black Union was local 767 and was located about ten minutes from where I lived. So I spent a lot of time there with men who taught me like Buddy Collette, Percy MacDavid and Gerald Wilson.</span><o:p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"></o:p><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> “But there were all sorts of great local orchestras around too. Chick Touchston</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">e, Peppe Prince, Jeep Smith all had great bands. Sammy Franklin too. Sammy was the father of Henry “The Skipper” Franklin, the bassist. I’d watch all these guys.</span><o:p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"></o:p><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> “I’d spend all my time down at the union. All my time. I’d be sitting out on a stool in front of the place because the union was nothing but a big old three story house like you see now on Adams Boulevard. All the bands rehearsed at the same time. A band on each of the three floors. The dors would be jumping! Big Jay McNeely, with that big sound would be blowing on top. Down below</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> him would be another orchestra rehearsing. But somehow it all worked.”</span><o:p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"></o:p><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr8pi5fzkMtIijhGIrC3ZW5SfbI4PENeiHKp0BeNb6-7NDkbHKkN48SLbGiAUvtq9turtQTdn4QD9srMwO5EmeOxs4md7bXjr-XnRdIFeEwvRJgR4jLR6D6WEUIclYUOowo7esqw/s1600-h/jazztimes1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 146px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr8pi5fzkMtIijhGIrC3ZW5SfbI4PENeiHKp0BeNb6-7NDkbHKkN48SLbGiAUvtq9turtQTdn4QD9srMwO5EmeOxs4md7bXjr-XnRdIFeEwvRJgR4jLR6D6WEUIclYUOowo7esqw/s200/jazztimes1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437336100070087682" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Tapscott went on to join the Gerald Wilson Orchestra, working with this unit from 1950 through 1951. In the brass section playing trombone, Tapscott became aware of some of the intricacies of Wilson’s arrangements and began contemplating his own future as an arranger.</span><o:p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"></o:p><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> In the 1950’s Tapscott also did some R&B work with Chuck Higgins and performed with Higgins on “Pachuco Hop”, a song that became a hit throughout the South.</span><o:p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"></o:p><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> But these successes were the exception to the rule. Confronting a bleak job </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">market, the 19 year-old decided to accept the counseling of older musicians like Buddy Collette and join the service. From 1953-57 he was a member of the U.S. Air Force Military Band. In the Air Force he studied three instruments; trombone, baritone and piano. But piano was the one that fascinated him and he began devoting long hours of practice toward mastering the instrument.</span><o:p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"></o:p><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Returning to Los Angeles he worked occasional gigs until he began leading his own group the following year. This unit featured Lester Robertson, David Bryant, Jimmy Woods, Guido Sinclair, Everett Brown Jr. or Leroy Brooks. The band performed a répertoire of “free-type music” at local clubs which did not catch on.</span><o:p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"></o:p><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Deciding to go out on the road, Tapscott fulfilled a childhood dream by working with Lionel Hampton from 1959-61. Having seen Hamp on more than one occasion during his early years, Tapscott eventually joined Hampton. Lester Robertson also joined the band at this time and the two became closer friends in Hamp’s band. Leaving Hampton in 1961, the two decided to try freelancing in New York. But after a period of little work and when Dolphy and other members of ‘Trane’s Village Vanguard band could only loan them less than $15, Tapscott and Robertson rejoined Hampton and traveled back to Los Angeles with him.</span><o:p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"></o:p><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Arriving home Tapscott began organizing a group of musicians into an org</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">anization that became the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra. Originally named the Community Cultural Arkestra, those instrumental in maintaining the group were Lester Robertson, trombone; Linda Hill, vocals, piano; David Bryant, Alan Hines, bass; Jimmy Woods, Arthur Blythe, Guido Sinclair, reeds; and Everett Brown Jr. or Leroy Brooks, drums.</span><o:p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"></o:p><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> The Arkestra promptly became a full time activity and the group was soon practicing “24 hours a day”. According to Tapscott, the “Ark” was founded to promote the band’s non-commercial music, showing some of the resources and talents that the community could develop. The group also sought to counter the negative image associated with modern jazz by presenting music in a positive, drug-free atmosphere which did not belittle the listener’s intelligence. The group also encouraged young would-be musicians to attend workshops sponsored by the Ark’s organizational wing, the Union of Gods Musicians and Artists Ascension Foundation (UGMAA).</span><o:p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"></o:p><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The conductor explains, “As we began playing we found that there were a lot of people within the community who wanted to be part of our organization. Not necessarily musicians, but artists of all sorts. So a unification of the community began. And after a few </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">years people began to realize who we were and then those same people tried to listen to our music.</span><o:p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"></o:p><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> “Black composers had been virtually excluded from the media and sot hey were hidden from people. Except for a few of us who were lucky enough to study musical history most of us had no idea about the history of the Black contribution to American music; the music that is the first art form that originated in America.</span><o:p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"></o:p><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> “Through the feeling of music we tried to get over as well as enlighten, at the same time learning to live with other people. Those were our original goals and we are still working on them”.</span><o:p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"></o:p><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt72d9OMbAM8TtplrSYsTiU6XOqUWcEonq2M6fMlD529C4WZ5oMw4l7sv7brdLA8zN1EJFeLBXi5Vth8rPIOQcTkYmJlnPtDxcES2VKVkDd990UY2JTDrBEiU1hP-jd9eFOQnppA/s1600-h/jazztimes2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 148px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt72d9OMbAM8TtplrSYsTiU6XOqUWcEonq2M6fMlD529C4WZ5oMw4l7sv7brdLA8zN1EJFeLBXi5Vth8rPIOQcTkYmJlnPtDxcES2VKVkDd990UY2JTDrBEiU1hP-jd9eFOQnppA/s200/jazztimes2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437339074499698386" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Today, the Arkestra is composed of 13 members. While some of the group’s more illustrious members have long since gone their own way, other members continue to work with the band on a regular basis. In addition, Red Callender sits in frequently and newcomers like Sabir Mateen and Roberto Miguel Miranda add a fresh breeze of creative ideas to the orchestra.</span><o:p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"></o:p><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> The Ark divides its time between performing concerts locally and recording new material for the Nimbus Records label. State and national tours are in the planning stages, but to date nothing has been finalized.</span><o:p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"></o:p><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Tapscott himself is also planning a fuller schedule of concert and club dates with a small group in and around California. For those interested in his music all of the Nimbus records are recommended. The current album, “</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Dial “B” For Barbra</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">”, features Tapscott on piano in a sextet format. The personnel includes Gary Bias on reeds, Reggie Bullen on trumpet, Sabir Mateen on tenor sax, Everett Brown Jr. on drums and Roberto Miguel Miranda on bass.</span><o:p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"></o:p><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Tapscott’s angular piano pyrotechnics place him somewhere beside Thelonious Monk, a man he reveres, and McCoy Tyner, although his music and style are distinctly his own. His albums sell moderately in the United States with sales heavier in the Scandinavian countries, Western Europe and Japan.</span><o:p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"></o:p><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> The bandleader seems to understand the uphill battle of the uncompromising artist. Still, he is optimistic about the future. With musicians like Don Cherry, Arthur Blythe and James Newton mentioning his name during their European tours and with an improving club scene for free music developing in Los Angeles, he feels that things are changing. (In 1981 on separate occasions Tapscott played with his trio at festivals in Verona and Padova, Italy).</span><o:p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"></o:p><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> The gifted pianist could probably gig more locally and internationally, but he seems resolutely unwilling to do so. Having suffered a pair of neurysms in 1978 he, of course, can’t be on the road constantly. But Tapscott is a person who seems dedicated to building his own community’s awareness and appréciation for the Arkestra’s bold, free style music, even if his own career languishes in the procès.</span><o:p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"></o:p><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> One of his dream is to be able to lead different groups playing his music “without any drawbacks”. It is this qualification that has made him pull tapes from record company executives who wanted to make his sound more commercial.</span><o:p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"></o:p><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Speaking with the intense, middle-aged musician you get the feeling that if someone offered him a tour along the college circuit (a ready-made market for this music) he’d accept the gig somewhat indifferently.</span><o:p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"></o:p><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Perhaps Tapscott himself sums up best what he’s trying to do. “I’m after the people on the street. When they think about music they don’t think about my material because they aren’t exposed to it. Most of those you talk with about music will mention someone commercial. That’s who they’ve heard of. But because we’re into a different type of music we don’t get in the media. Maybe in something special, but certainly not enough to catch their attention. The only way for us to get their attention is to go where they are, take it to them”.</span><o:p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"></o:p><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> It’s a tall order and one that keeps Tapscott continually working. But for someone who believes so strongly in this vision, this is the only way to live.<br /><br /><br /><br /></span><o:p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"></o:p> <!--EndFragment--></div>bertrandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04478921099297575752noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24009309.post-1142471659718826002010-02-14T23:26:00.004+01:002010-02-24T15:20:20.756+01:00Horace Tapscott: Interview by Jason Weiss<div align="justify"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:180%;" ><strong><br /></strong></span><div style="text-align: right; font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://bjazz.blogspot.com/2010/02/this-blog-which-has-been-started-in.html" target="blank"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">-> INDEX</span><br /></a></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:180%;" ><strong><br /></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-size:180%;" ><strong>Horace Tapscott : l'autre West Coast<br /></strong></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">Interview publiée dans Jazz Magazine, n° 321, en septembre 1983<br />Propos recueillis par Jason Weiss et traduits par Christian Gauffre</span><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Comme Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy, Charles Mingus, Don Cherry, et, plus récemment, Arthur Blythe qui prit part, surnommé alors "Black Arthur", à ses premières expériences de leader, le pianiste Horace Tapscott représente une Great Black Music inventée et pratiquée sur le versant californien du contine</span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;">nt "jazz". </span></span></div><div align="justify"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn0T20zt2HtxW5U5AxqF7A08LtIXxSRJCIli5HTyHCl2JnrpgKxPqTdtsRXoj95DDgVX6q6v4iSIPZeqG0cjJU_i8OFDrtLJ-xmloJhMDgB51lbgWdtp5TW_wCRTG6lqNdw3Bj6w/s1600-h/jazzmagazine.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 158px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn0T20zt2HtxW5U5AxqF7A08LtIXxSRJCIli5HTyHCl2JnrpgKxPqTdtsRXoj95DDgVX6q6v4iSIPZeqG0cjJU_i8OFDrtLJ-xmloJhMDgB51lbgWdtp5TW_wCRTG6lqNdw3Bj6w/s200/jazzmagazine.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437297395081937810" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Horace Tapsc</span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">ott</span> Fin 1960, je n'avais pas de travail. J'avais étudié le trombone et l'avais abandonné à 19 ans pour le piano. Comme j'ai eu la possibilité de jouer avec avec Lionel Hampton, j'ai ressorti mon trombone – mais je composais et arrangeais aussi pour le groupe.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Jazz Magazine</span> Comment Hampton vous avait-il connu ?<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> Il avait appelé Ge</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">rald Wilson, qui lui a parlé de Lester Robertson, et ce dernier lui a dit qu'il se chargeait de trouver le musicien manquant. Lester m'a téléphoné : « Ca t'intéresse d'aller à New York ? ». Nous n'avions pas de boulot, je devais payer mon loyer : je me suis retrouvé chez Hampton. Puis nous sommes allés à Los Angeles jouer dans un club de Sunset Boulevard. Quand le car a repris la route pour New York, je n'ai pas pu tenir, je suis descendu. Avec Oliver Jackson, nous nous demandions si nous descendions ou pas. Ils ne se sont aperçus de mon absence qu'une fois arrivé dans l'Arizona. Ce voyage en bus m'avait tué. Nous avions traversé tout le Sud. Chaque fois, avant de manger, il fallait vérifier que nous avions le droit d'entrer par la g</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">rande porte. Un soir, tout le monde était épuisé. D'ordinaire, le chauffeur de bus, un Blanc, était envoyé en éclaireur. Ce soir-là, les musiciens n'ont pas voulu : nous sommes entrés sans rien demander. Il n'y a pas eu de problème. De toute façon, fatigués comme nous l'étions, nous étions prêts à tout. </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Quelle randonnée...<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JM</span> Pourquoi avez-vous si peu enregistré ?<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> Signer avec une maison de disque</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">s, c'est être prêt à entendre : « Ne faites plus ceci, faites cela ». Alors, plutôt que d'en passer par là... Si ça ne me plaît pas, je ne le fais pas. Pour le disque chez Flying Dutchman, par exemple... Nous avions voté, je ne voulais pas le faire, mais j'ai été en minorité. Bob Thiele a expliqué que c'était pour la postérité. Le disque a été fait, mais nous n'étions pas d'accord sur le mixage. Thiele est reparti pour New York et l'a fait sans moi. Quelques années plus tôt, j'avais enregistré pour Contemporary avec Eddie Mathias, Walter Winn, Juno, Bobby Sears et deux musiciens pour la rythmique. Ils voulaient tout changer. Je suis reparti avec mes bandes. Ce qui m'a d'ailleurs exclu des studios pendant des années : plus personne ne voulait m'engager. J'étais déjà à fond dans l'aventure</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> de l’Arkestra. J'ai d'ailleurs des bandes depuis 1960.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JM</span> Seront-elles publiées un jour ?<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> Non, ce sont des bandes de travail. Je préférerais qu'on en fasse des copies qui circuleraient dans la « famille ».</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JM</span> Avez-vous travaillé en studio ?<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> Oh oui. J'ai fait le mercenaire pour divers musiciens : Julie London, Sonny & Cher...<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JM</span> Vous avez travaillé avec des chanteurs, fait des arrangements...<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> J'ai surtout écrit et arrangé pour des groupes. Par exemple, j'avais travaillé pour Elaine Brown, j'étais assez fier de ce que j'avais fait. Ça n'est jamais sorti. Nous avons fait deux disques ensemble il y a quelques années. C'était quelqu'un chez les Black Panthers. Une grande voix. Et c'est elle qui avait écrit toute la musique. J'ai aussi travaillé avec l'acteur William Marshall pour Capitol, un disque qui n'est jamais sorti non plus, avec 35 musiciens. Marshall étai</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">t un acteur shakespearien, qui avait un peu la voix de Paul Robeson. J'ai aussi travaillé avec lui sur Frederick Douglas, pour la Public Télévision.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JM</span> Que devient le Pan-African Peoples Arkestra ?<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> II continue sous la direction d'un des saxophonistes, qui possède un endroit où </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">le faire travailler. En 1978, j</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">'ai souffert d'un anévrisme, ce qui m'a mis à l'écart pendant deux ans.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JM</span> Comment est née votre Union of God's Musicians and Artists Ascension ?<br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijAfiTAUPB8ZuZwK9gss5lTIxbz2qf6Q3HRmR0LOqehpU3LybHlZi4-60T7Q9Sd4kLmphUXJ_wBGSKnAdZWjk95T_UCzzLxaMqeEnhAkst6RPaeHPUnR-R4to4bJ5wywMGGifuqA/s1600-h/jazzmagazine1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 155px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijAfiTAUPB8ZuZwK9gss5lTIxbz2qf6Q3HRmR0LOqehpU3LybHlZi4-60T7Q9Sd4kLmphUXJ_wBGSKnAdZWjk95T_UCzzLxaMqeEnhAkst6RPaeHPUnR-R4to4bJ5wywMGGifuqA/s200/jazzmagazine1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437303393681062866" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> Nous étions plusieurs à Watts (Los Angeles), dans les années 50, à nous intéresser à des musiques différentes. Certains musiciens nous mettaient à part — géographiquement, de toute façon, nous étions à part. Pour eux, nous étions « les trompettistes du ghetto, là-bas ». Nous jouions jour et nuit chez Linda Hill, dans la 75e Rue, à la hauteur de Central Avenue. Nous travaillions aussi dans mon garage, au coin de la 56e Rue et Avalon. C'est comme ça qu'est né le Pan-African Peoples Arkestra, avec cinq ou six personnes — Lester Robinson, Jimmy Woods, m</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">oi-même, etc. En 1960, nous avons eu le sentiment que notre musique devait prendre une autre direction. Je me suis mis à jouer des negro-spirituals, toute la musique composée par les Noirs. Je me suis lancé dans la composition, dès les années 50, mais surtout dans les années 60, à cause de l'orchestre. Près de la moitié des musiciens de la ville passaient ; ils avaient entendu dire que nous répétions cinq soirs par semaine, ils venaient v</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">oir. Nous nous sommes organisés, nous avons commencé d'écrire. II a fallu apprendre à lire et écrire la musique à tout le monde, et nous avons eu des musiciens prêts à jouer dès le lendemain ce que nous venions de composer.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JM</span> Où les concerts avaient-ils lieu ?<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> Dans les parcs, aux coins des rues, dans des locaux scolaires, ce qui correspondait exactement à ce que nous visions. En 1963, un programme d'enseignement a été mis en place à Watts, qui nous a mis en contact avec beaucoup de jeunes intéressés par la musique. Ils dansaient et fredonnaient The Dark Tree (The Giant Is Awakened) en descendant les rues : l'une de mes plus grandes </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">émotions. Sur plus de deux cents compositions de notre répertoire, 99 étaient originales.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JM</span> Qui étaient les auteurs ?<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> Moi, Linda Hill et beaucoup d'autres.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JM</span> Comment travailliez-vous ?<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> Les chanteurs répétaient sur un trottoir, l'orchestre sur un autre, et j'allais des uns aux autres. Linda Hill leur donnait des cours de musique. Nous faisions circuler la musique — qui provenait de notre communauté, de vieux musiciens inconnus...<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JM</span> Tous les musiciens n'étaient donc pas de bons lecteurs ?<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> Non, ils apprenaient un peu tous les soirs. De temps à autre, je donnais un cours où l'on se contentait de battre des mains. J'écrivais sur le tableau noir comment il fallait lire. Les gens mettaient deux semaines en moyenne pour apprendre, avant de pouvoir toucher un instrument.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JM</span> Que signifiait U.</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">G.M.A.A. à cette époque ?<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> Underground Musicians Association. Au bout de dix ans, c'est devenu Union of God's Musicians and Artists Ascension. L' U.G.M.A.A. s'est transformée. Nous avons réalisé que nous avions désormais une place, qu'on nous mettait là comme une plante grasse ou un pot de fleurs, dans un but précis... Au fil des ans, les gens se sont mis à nous percevoir comme un groupe religieux. A la fin des concerts, ils venaient nous dire que notre musique était « spirituelle », etc. C'est de là qu'est venue l'idée. A cause de ce choix, les Noirs se familiarisent avec notre musique. Il y a vingt ans que ça dure, et il reste beaucoup à faire. On </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">crée si l'on donne.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JM</span> Avez-vous le sentiment, après vingt ans d'activités, d'avoir permis à des jeunes de prendre conscience de la musique, de l'histoire, des sons, de la langue...<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> Deux sur sept en moyenne en ont pris conscience — il y a vingt ans, il n'y en avait aucun. A l'époque, la musique était associée aux quartiers « chauds », c'était l'image dans la tête des gens. Ce préjugé leur bouchait les oreilles.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JM</span> Vous avez donc ramené la musique au grand jour...<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> Exactement, et voilà pourquoi le mot Underground devait disparaître de l'intitulé de l'association.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JM</span> Avez-vous fait des tournées avec vos groupes ?<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> Pas vraiment. Il y a quelques années, trois ou quatre endroits nous recevaient, dans l'Etat, à l'occasion de la « Semaine de l'Histoire Noire ». Mais il est difficile de faire passer le message. Nous tentons de passer le flambeau aux jeunes musiciens et aux jeunes artistes de notre communauté, en essayant de les faire s'insérer dans la foule plutôt que de se</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> l'aliéner.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JM</span> Quand vous avez lancé l'U.G.M.A.A., certains Noirs vous disaient-ils que vous n'y arriveriez jamais ?<br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyo1qbvbSOzzZAZwrn1AN71PHDWPXSKqfKFjhX9xVhxipTXZj8VsXr2YszT8zOxbWyEyRWDCzAd7m9Y_U_3NEoSbXZu2Yi5Zk1o-N9cpA8yH4OihHYXZFkXwp0Da8pb_CUxe_rtQ/s1600-h/jazzmagazine2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 154px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyo1qbvbSOzzZAZwrn1AN71PHDWPXSKqfKFjhX9xVhxipTXZj8VsXr2YszT8zOxbWyEyRWDCzAd7m9Y_U_3NEoSbXZu2Yi5Zk1o-N9cpA8yH4OihHYXZFkXwp0Da8pb_CUxe_rtQ/s200/jazzmagazine2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437303632425254114" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> Oh oui ! Plus de quatre personnes sur cinq. Mais le gros de la </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">communauté, les durs, a apprécié tout de suite. Les ivrognes, dans la rue, demandaient où était passée la musique, si un seul jour nous ne jouions pas ! Nous</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> pouvions faire de la musique très tard dans la nuit sans que la police vienne : personne ne l'appelait. Nous nous sommes développés. Nous en sommes arrivés à un point où on nous invitait dans les écoles, les maisons de retraite... Le plus souvent, c'était pour pas un sou. Quand nous nous faisions payer, dans les écoles, les universités ou par le syndicat des étudiants noirs, ils devaient avoir un budget annuel de 1 000 dollars, alors, pour 25 instrumentistes... Mais nous avons été reconnus, sans aucun doute. Chaque fois qu'on voit les gens dans la rue, ils demandent : «L’Arkestra répète toujours ? Il joue toujours ?» Nous avons joué plus de cinq ans à l’Immamuel United Church of Christ.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JM</span> L'I.U.C.C. vous a-t-elle apporté un soutien efficace ?<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> Cette église-là, oui. Le révérend prêtait la salle à divers groupes de la communauté noire. Il hébergeait les réfugiés — avant de tomber malade, il avait reçu des Salvadoriens. C'était un homme dévoué à la communauté. Nous jouions pour lui, nous faisions tout ce qu'il voulait. On disait qu'il y avait des « bandes » organisées, mais ils s'asseyaient derrière l'orchestre, et il n'y avait pas de v</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">oiture volée, ni d'instruments qui disparaissaient. Nous leurs parlions, ils nous écoutaient ; et comme ils nous voyaient tous le temps, ils nous faisaient confiance.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JM</span> Ces concerts attiraient-ils des gens extérieurs à la communauté ?<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> Au bout d'un moment, oui. Des gens venaient de San Fernando Valley, de Hollywood, des plages, de Malibu (entre 35 et 50 km). Et quelques artistes. Pendant 5 ans, c'était tous les dimanches, ensuite, tous les derniers dimanches du mois. Le public était représentatif de la population. Et toujours des enfants. C'était magnifique. Au début, les Blancs ne venaient pas : c'était en plein cœur de Watts. Puis, ils en ont appris le chemin. Les Noirs aussi. L'orchestre comprenant aussi quelques Latinos, les Sud-américains du coin venaient : « Alors, que se passe-t-il là-dedans ?». Ils entraient et se tenaient tranquilles. Le public allait de zéro à 80 ans.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JM</span> L'U.G.M.A.A. avait-elle été créée pour des raisons musicales aussi bien que d'intérêt communautaire ?<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> Nous étions des musiciens, mais il y avait d'autres artistes — écrivains, danseurs, peintres — avec nous</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">, qui venaient écouter la musique. Nous essayions de faire des choses ensemble.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JM</span> Vous aviez donc, dès le début, l'idée de vous insérer complètement dans la communauté noire ?<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> Ayant grandi dans le milieu des musiciens de Los Angeles, j'avais une vue panoramique des choses : j'ai vu ce qui arrivait aux autres, et pourquoi. La raison principale de leurs difficultés, c'était l'absence de soutien de la communauté. A une époque, quand les gens sortaient de leur travail le vendredi soir, et le samedi, ils attendaient avec impatience le moment d'écouter de la musique, parce qu'ils pouvaient danser dessus. Le musicien était vu sous un jour différent. Mais pour que la musique perdure, qu'elle conserve un sens... Tenez, Duke Ellington, par exemple : sa musique sera toujours vivante. C'est le genre de musique que j'aime entendre, le type classique, que les gens peuvent peut-être apprécier. Je peux enseigner à partir de là, parler de toute une époque, expliquer pourquoi c'est arrivé.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JM</span> Vous avez déclaré que vous et les membres de l'orchestre vous considériez comme des conteurs. Est-ce toujours vrai ?<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> Oui. Mais on bûche pendant des années, et on a souvent l'impression d'être dans un tunnel. Au bout d'un m</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">oment, on s'arrête pour réfléchir, on regarde ce qui s'est fait, ce qui ne s'est pas fait... Il faut rester un diseur d'histoires.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JM</span> Comment votre action à Watts est-elle perçue par le milieu du jazz de Los Angeles ? Vous rejette-t-on dans un ghetto ?<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> Non, ça se passe très bien, la communication s'est faite. C'est vraiment une question de survie. On ne peut tout faire dépendre de moi. Je veux avoir la possibilité de partir.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JM</span> Quelle a été l'influence de votre anévrisme sur votre musique, votre conception de la vie ?<br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_1YP-yyg7xqJldiBoGUAukZvTSTyOW9GD7KWO9GstfYghf9Yp8mq7SjQjBndluZPQdUz4I25gNaRqA2ppIb8w766SvZrPj0wM1WIbT-sbrpq7dL88cmdTEgmMadt-oPbYVlm7dg/s1600-h/jazzmagazine3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 100px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_1YP-yyg7xqJldiBoGUAukZvTSTyOW9GD7KWO9GstfYghf9Yp8mq7SjQjBndluZPQdUz4I25gNaRqA2ppIb8w766SvZrPj0wM1WIbT-sbrpq7dL88cmdTEgmMadt-oPbYVlm7dg/s200/jazzmagazine3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437306918386954994" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> On en arrive à un point où des choses qu'on faisait auparavant perdent tout intérêt. Quand je m'en suis sorti, j'avais toujours ça en tête : la musique, nous tous, mon action dans la communauté, tout ce qui m'avait probablement envoyé à l'hôpital. Si tout ça s'était effacé de ma mémoire, je n'aurais plus été qu'un légume. C'était envisageable : s'ils opéraient, je pouvais mourir, n'être plus qu'un légume, ou bien m'en sortir. J'avais confiance. Mais je dois dire que je n'ai connu toutes ces possibilités que six mois après être sorti de l'hôpital. Il m'a fallu quatre ans pour revenir à la surface. Tout à coup, les offres d'enregistrement ont afflué. Tous les jours, on s'est mis à diffuser à la radio les disques que j'avais faits. C'était... une sorte, d'hommage quasi posthume. Depuis que je suis rétabli, ils ne les passent plus !<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JM</span> Les propositions d'enregistrement se sont-elles matérialisées ?<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> Certaines. Puis Nimbus Records est arrivé. Et c'est une collaboration qui a trouvé son équilibre au bout de trois ans et demi. Nous ne sommes pas pressés.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JM</span> Vous tenez-vous au courant de ce que font les gens de l’AACM de Chicago ou les musiciens installés à New York ?<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> Muhal Richard Abrams s'occupe surtout de faire tourner les musiciens, ils ont des relais, ils bougent sans arrêt. C'est ce qui nous différencie. Nous nous sommes rencontrés à l'étranger, en Italie. Là-bas, vous jouez, vous avez six ou sept critiques qui arrivent. Ici, il faut avoir Léonard Feather — pour être connu, s'entend. Il me faudrait donc aller vingt pâtés de maisons plus haut pour être connu et faire de l'argent.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JM</span> Vous avez joué en Italie...<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> Oui, en 1980. C'était une série de solos : il y avait Andrew Hill et des New-yorkais... J'ai apprécié l'accueil, l'architecture et tout le reste. Ce qui m'a surpris, c'est que le public soit surtout composé d'hommes. C'était bizarre.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JM</span> C'était un festival organisé par le Parti communiste...<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> C'est ce qui s'est avéré. Chaque fois que nous jouions, il y avait des gars du Parti. Mais tout le monde nous a traités comme des artistes. La même année, j'y suis retourné en solo. Et j'ai été mêlé à un accident de voiture. C'était de ma faute. Je suis sorti de la voiture pour retirer mon sweater, à cause de la chaleur. Dès que j'ai eu ouvert la porte, boum ! je me suis retrouvé projeté à l'intérieur, et deux motocyclistes sont passés par-dessus la portière. Heureusement, l'un des organisateurs, celui qui conduisait, était docteur, et j'avais mon passeport sur moi : j'ai évité la prison. A mon arrivée, Muhal Richard Abrams vient m'accueillir à l'aéroport avec un autre type ; le temps qu'ils m'attendent, on a ouvert leur voiture et volé l'appareil photo de Richard, et le soprano de l'autre. Moi qui croyais avoir laissé l'Amérique derrière moi...<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JM</span> Quand avez-vous joué avec Arthur BIythe pour la première fois ?<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> En 1958-60.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JM</span> Avez-vous beaucoup joué avec lui depuis son départ pour New York ?<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> Quand il est revenu, nous avons joué une bonne partie de la nuit au Workshop (le Crossroads Créative Workshop, dans les locaux de l’U.G.M.A.A.).<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JM</span> Cela s'est-il également produit avec d'autres musiciens passés dans votre groupe<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> Oui, ils reviennent toujours. Quelque chose les oblige à revenir. Quand Arthur est venu, il y avait des jeunes qui ne l'avaient jamais rencontré. Gary Byas, par exemple, un jeune altiste qui fait de très belles choses et joue un peu avec Willie Bobo. Il aimait Arthur, l'avait vu quand il était gosse, mais ne l'avait jamais rencontré — comme Lester Robertson.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JM</span> Est-ce par vous que l' Arkestra a survécu ?<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> Par quelques autres aussi : David Bryant, notre bassiste, Linda Hill, Lester Robertson, Maria Gibbs, Alan Hines... Notre but, c'est que l’Arkestra devienne une formation de 75 à 100 instruments, se transformant du même coup en pilier de notre communauté, où les jeunes pourraient, en grandissant, avoir envie d'appartenir à l'orchestre. Il faut que ça continue.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JM</span> Est-ce que l’Arkestra remplit déjà cette fonction ?<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> Jusqu'à présent, oui. Les jeunes viennent au concert alors qu'ils sont encore dans le ventre de leur mère. Ils font leurs études, et jouent dans l'orchestre ; puis ils amènent leurs gosses. Et ceux qui ne jouaient pas, qui sont devenus avocats, médecins ou promoteurs, se souviennent.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JM</span> Vous bénéficiez donc toujours du soutien communautaire ?<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> Oui, parce que nous collaborons maintenant avec la municipalité. Nous nous sommes fait notre place, et sans aide fédérale. Nous avons essayé d'obtenir des subventions fédérales, mais ça a toujours été impossible. Ils ne voulaient pas donner pour ce que nous faisons. Pourtant, nous nous occupons des jeunes du quartier, ils nettoient, effacent les graffiti offensants, aident les vieux à traverser les rues, etc.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JM</span> Avez-vous constaté des effets, même purement culturels, de votre action et de celle de l' U.G.M.A.A. pour une communauté noire stable et constructive ?<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> Oui, parfois ça se voit, et puis, d'autres jours, on sort et on est mal à l'aise, parce qu'on voit quelque chose qui se faisait quand on était gosse, et qui se fait toujours.. Quand on voit qu'il y en a encore qui ne savent pas lire... On se dit : mais qu'est-ce que j'ai fait, ici ? Rien du tout. Ce que je veux dire, c'est que si un type ne sait pas lire, c'est en partie ma faute.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JM</span> Pourtant, vous devez bien réaliser, de plus en plus, que c'est un projet très ambitieux.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> Bien sûr. Il n'y a pas de délais précis pour faire ça. jusqu'à ce qu'on en prenne plein la gueule.<br /><br /><br /><br /></span></div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span>bertrandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04478921099297575752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24009309.post-41446914366427618812010-02-14T23:19:00.006+01:002010-12-15T14:10:45.435+01:00Horace Tapscott: Interview by Elaine Cohen Part One<span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:180%;" ><strong><br /></strong></span><div style="text-align: right; font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://bjazz.blogspot.com/2010/02/this-blog-which-has-been-started-in.html" target="blank""><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">-> INDEX</span><br /></a></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:180%;" ><strong><br /></strong></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">"A Legacy to Pass on."</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Horace Tapscott Talking</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Published in <a href="http://www.cadencemagazine.com/" target="blank"">Cadence</a> <a href="http://www.cadencebuilding.com/cadence/backissues.html" target="blank"">vol.10 No.7, july 1984.</a></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >TAKEN AND TRANSCRIBED BY ELAINE COHEN.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >PART ONE</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" > Beneath the mists of legend surrounding the name of Horace Tapscott lie hard facts and beautiful music. In Los Angeles, where many musicians opt for lucrative studio work, pianist/composer Horace Tapscott has maintened the 17-piece Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra that played on the streetcorners of Watts during the 1960's and is </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">still</span></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" > playing free concerts today. The Arkestra, an extension of the UGMAA Foundation (Union Of God's Musicians & Artists Ascension), ensures that the people of Los Angeles have access to the luxurious musical world which is their heritage. Complementing Tapscott's work with groups large and small (see discography) are the solo sessions in which notes dance, memories linger and the pianist's rhapsodic, eclectic, hard-driving imagination is in full swing.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" > Commited to his vision and his community, Tapscott has remained in Los Angeles, relatively unknown. Thus the legend, as music as fresh and advanced as his creates deep ripples in the lake. "Our music is contibutive, not competitive," he says, with concern for future generations. Like the bands of Ellington, Basie, and Sun Ra, the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra has contributed another dimension to American music, although the music is only given its due outside America. But Horace, at 49, with keen vision sees the necessity of continuing his path for each individual the music touches has value in his eyes. Recently he's been touring Europe and looking forward to performing solo or with trio or sextet outside Southern California.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" > What's missing of course, from this interview is Tapscott laughter, resonant voice and expressive gestures. We sat on the sunporch of his comfortable home in Los Angeles' Crenshaw District with his agent, David Keller, bassist David Bryant, one of the original Arkestra members and various relatives. When asking him about the way things used to be on Los Angeles' famed Central Avenue in the '40s - which has assumed mythic proportions for a younger generation, he replied:</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRcpmkI3e1YPMylwD63RCxWps6WXnej_Gusx3oMW5aUMV4j7iPS6WrfBb7Yl5tTmdhAGy9L_D3z3VEZwWQpE7w-eRu7KyZuzCeKfrhiR4tYi-6UOU4qrF49tS7HDTjA1QeY9r4Mg/s1600/cadence1984-1.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 130px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRcpmkI3e1YPMylwD63RCxWps6WXnej_Gusx3oMW5aUMV4j7iPS6WrfBb7Yl5tTmdhAGy9L_D3z3VEZwWQpE7w-eRu7KyZuzCeKfrhiR4tYi-6UOU4qrF49tS7HDTjA1QeY9r4Mg/s200/cadence1984-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550893444590897074" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HORACE TAPSCOTT:</span> ...You mean what they call the good years of the music, the renaissance years. That was what I call being really blessed because I was right smack in the heart of it. I got here (from Houston) the last of '43. I was about nine. Lived in Fresno for a while. When I got back to Los Angeles that's when I was able to check out all the musicians who were on the set at the time. All the Black musicians you can think of from Art Tatum to Errol Garner, to Red Callender to Duke Ellington, Big Jay McNeely, Les Hite, you know, Louis Armstrong, Lionel Hampton... they were all there.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> At that time, it was Black union, segregrated, Local 767, so naturally, all of them had to come through there. On Central Avenue where the Santa Monica Freeway crosses Central is where the Union was. And up the street for about 13 or 14 blocks was where the music started, the clubs all across the street from each other, live music. Buddy Collette's group, Gerald Wilson, Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington... there were a lot of them. I was right there inside of it all. And of all the rehearsal bands I was in, I was the youngest cat in there.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">CADENCE:</span> Were you playing piano then, or trombone?</span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3DEpB33r9UYy5qAPLuFxqz21gA0qoIHQMQ9UW7fg_nFOVPq3wSS98fIp8QCDbx_lI-k2eX39FVfR1dnUeznSxAMmsVkf-RVh6rCLpzsnbPoDP0Bvd59uxlYUbPo68eCpgWv53eA/s1600/cadence1984-2.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 132px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3DEpB33r9UYy5qAPLuFxqz21gA0qoIHQMQ9UW7fg_nFOVPq3wSS98fIp8QCDbx_lI-k2eX39FVfR1dnUeznSxAMmsVkf-RVh6rCLpzsnbPoDP0Bvd59uxlYUbPo68eCpgWv53eA/s200/cadence1984-2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550893574261072370" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">H.T.:</span> Trombone. I was one of the young cats, Eric Dolphy was the other one and Lester Robinson and Frank Morgan. We were under cats like Dexter Gordon, Wardell Gray, and those brothers - one of them just died - the Royal brothers, Marshall and Ernie Royal, John Anderson, Red Kelly, Clifford Brown... just all of them you could think of, they were there. Gerald Wilson was the leader of this orchestra then and we were all in his band with Melba Liston, Keg Johnson, Jimmy Cheatham, Lawrence Marable was the drummer, and Roy Porter. Sonny Criss he was in and out, but Sonny was on the set.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> And all these people came out of the high school band, Jefferson High, Samuel Browne's band. He'd fill the street with musicians. Everything was so close in those days. In school I was under the direction of Percy MacDavid. This is the concert side, we'd be playing the European classics... and they made sure that we, the younger players always was in on something that had to do with playing. We heard the Russian conductors. My teachers would come to my home and pick me up for rehearsal, come to ask my mother could they come take me to rehearsal. Gerald Wilson would pick me up, Mr. MacDavid, sometimes Lloyd Reese would pick us up and take us to music lessons, make sure we went.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">CAD:</span> What a rich period it was then... what a lot of concern.</span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd-YSd0bHqlEvTj64sm9kyu-Um69q-cTjio97BSBnTw4uV7xWv_br2mjD8kcGq8MUNJzFaIuEsZnk5ChUATGEc5PqnlbuTznCwkzF3BZ-HsKeRRmotcfYbFFVe5dL49iiVedcTdw/s1600/cadence1984-3.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 128px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd-YSd0bHqlEvTj64sm9kyu-Um69q-cTjio97BSBnTw4uV7xWv_br2mjD8kcGq8MUNJzFaIuEsZnk5ChUATGEc5PqnlbuTznCwkzF3BZ-HsKeRRmotcfYbFFVe5dL49iiVedcTdw/s200/cadence1984-3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550893737592953378" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">H.T.:</span> Yeah, there was that. Black music at that time was still at its top level in the community. You know, dancers and singers and music, that was the big thing. The Joe Louis came on the set and he opened up the Moulin Rouge in Las Vegas. That band had Benny Carter and Gerald Wilson. I was part of that band too. It was just like you say, it was rich. Then it got to 1950, 1951, that's when the Union merged with Local 47. By then, Central Avenue had closed up. Yeah, because it was bringing a lot of money down there and the Hollywood actresses was coming down there and that wasn't too cool after a while. Ava Gardner and Lana Turner were coming down, Martha Ray... to listen to bebop. Charlie Parker was here playing then, Miles Davis. Before they went off to New York and cut those albums. They cut some of those real old ones out here on Dial Records.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Bird was the one who was going to come down and give us, the younger musicians, a lecture on dope and stuff. But it turned out he couldn't make it that night 'cause they was having a party... (laughs)... It was a legendary party. Everybody took off their clothes and jumped into the pool. Oscar Peterson and all those cats were there, that's what happened that night.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> But all day long, every day was filled with music. Buddy Collette had a night school where they were giving guys lessons in improvisation. Matter of fact, when I was coming up, my mom wouldn't let me out of the house for four hours unless I put in four hours on my instrument. Then I could do anything I wanted.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> I'll never forget her saving nine dollars a week when she was in her early '30s to buy me a trombone. She had been teaching me piano, and I didn't want that 'cause I thought it was a sissy, you know, that violin and piano bit. Every Sunday when they had a concert, she'd take me, made sure I was there. At this particular concert they played the William Tell Overture. There's a part where the trombones get real big and masculine, so I pulled her dress and said, "That's what I want." So she went and worked for nine dollars a week, saved it. Wouldn't buy enough food, my whole family always would sacrifice so I could play. My sister, she wouldn't eat, so i could eat and have the strength to play. It was really out. And they were going to send me to Juilliard... saved up all their money to send me. I told them I really didn't want to go there, but they were <span style="font-style: italic;">sending</span> me there, you dig. It got to the point where I said, "I love it, but I can do something else rather than have you spend that kind of money for <span style="font-style: italic;">that</span>." My mom, she still comes to concerts, says, "Where you playing at next?" And I take her.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> It was very rich around here when I was growing up in the '40s and most of those people are still around. Like Gerald Wilson lives around the corner and I still see him.</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhG8UnCxDPXU8eVwjy-tMjv5rf5YdfmAISTYwpfaEFU1Fl60rLyp8sK9yaEIFTFetUjKNOMEe37uS2Kuylbk_12KHzWtUZQdLCbhuCZcCBFQJoGLMFH55r0sZGpmdggLoEWpkDuQ/s1600/cadence1984-4%2527.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhG8UnCxDPXU8eVwjy-tMjv5rf5YdfmAISTYwpfaEFU1Fl60rLyp8sK9yaEIFTFetUjKNOMEe37uS2Kuylbk_12KHzWtUZQdLCbhuCZcCBFQJoGLMFH55r0sZGpmdggLoEWpkDuQ/s200/cadence1984-4%2527.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550893844706116994" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >After a year in the brass section of Gerald Wilson's orchestra where he received invaluable lessons in the art of arranging, Horace joined the Air Force in 1953. Stationed in Wyoming, he became part of the Air Force Band, playing trombone, piano and baritone saxophone. During four long, snowy winters in Wyoming, where he and his wife Cecilia Payne, had the first three of their eight children, there was plenty of time to think about "presenting the music as Black arts." Although he had done some studio work in records hit, Chuck Higgins "Pechuco Hop," Horace was developing an alternative vision. The Air Force offered him six stripes to stay in the service with the band, but the exposure he had to the music and people in Los Angeles made that offer "go in one ear and out the other." He says of the musicians he was experimenting musically in Los Angeles:</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2Tyd9fnduDpHS2znoXgFcVVA9U5qxkHL1Ua-exexTZmOU0kwyUMhfMwImJIx4b8G-8VIsCfGPG4LugKlrFJgDtsSFnWxDVGygtS4QqRzIhHBirvyYog9tnCyR2CGp269GYfqTlg/s1600/cadence1984-5%2527.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 85px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2Tyd9fnduDpHS2znoXgFcVVA9U5qxkHL1Ua-exexTZmOU0kwyUMhfMwImJIx4b8G-8VIsCfGPG4LugKlrFJgDtsSFnWxDVGygtS4QqRzIhHBirvyYog9tnCyR2CGp269GYfqTlg/s200/cadence1984-5%2527.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550894190233832962" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">H.T.:</span> A lot of them were called derelicts, so to speak, people who had their own way of thinking about things, the East Side musicians. Play all that 'funny music' they call it. Anyway, we got together because we had something in common, and that common thing was freedom - socially, financially and humanly. It was more than just the music itself, it was that our only way of interpreting our feelings was through the music. By taking that kind of path, that meant preserving the music was just a part of the whole everyday thing - from your basic ideas about life.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> In my particular case it had to do with my race and our position in this country and in this world. To clarify the position we did have to see whether or not it made any sense to be a part of this whole picture here and not be recognized for your contributions toward this country? This country is a great country because of all the contributions from all its inhabitants. But in our situation, and the age I was, 19, early 20s, it was bothering me. Like I didn't know what to do, exactly. I had some kind of feeling about this since high school. They were telling us about protecting yourself when you got out of school, having something to pass on, legacies that have some meaning to them, learning something so you can get into something - all this was bugging me.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> So I went through the service, I was in the Air Force Band, I formed a group in the Air Force Band with a drummer named Billy James and several other musicians. We played what they called at that time, the regular Jazz. Still, I had time to think about what I wanted to do when I got out of the service, and it didn't have anything to do with just playing.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">End of Part One. 5/28/1983 - Los Angeles, CA.<br /><br /><br /><br /></span></div>bertrandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04478921099297575752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24009309.post-28919202121670233852010-02-14T23:18:00.003+01:002010-12-15T19:41:17.571+01:00Horace Tapscott: Interview by Elaine Cohen Part Two<span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:180%;" ><strong><br /></strong></span><div style="text-align: right; font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://bjazz.blogspot.com/2010/02/this-blog-which-has-been-started-in.html" target="blank"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">-> INDEX</span><br /></a></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:180%;" ><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:small;" ><br /></span><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >"A Legacy to Pass on."</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Horace Tapscott Talking</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Published in <a href="http://www.cadencemagazine.com/" target="blank"">Cadence</a> <a href="http://www.cadencebuilding.com/cadence/backissues.html" target="blank"">vol.10 No.8, august 1984.</a></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >TAKEN AND TRANSCRIBED BY ELAINE COHEN.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >PART TWO</span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >When Tapscott left the Air Force, he returned to Los Angeles. "It was hard to get started," he remembers, "somehow or other, something happened. My friend Lester Robinson called me one night and said, do I want to go to New York. This was in 1979. I said, 'Yeah.' So I joined Lionel Hampton's band and we were in it about a year. Lester and I came back to New York and I spent time there seeing how things were going on. You know, it was kind of displeasing because those were the days, '61, when groups like John Coltrane's group were making universal music but no one had any kind of money coming from it, just having their regular hassles. It seemed kind of lopsided to me when I was sitting in the audience when they were cutting this album Spiritual, and how people from far lands were there and all the cats on the bandstand didn't have $5 in their pocket. And we knew that for a fact because they had to give us some of what they had, me and Lester, so we could eat. We had been put out of our hotel at the time, so Eric and Trane and those cats let us have it. But it seemed so unbalanced to me. We'd go with Hampton on the road, playing down in the South and people be coming in dancing, listening to Hamp and us play. Then they'd put us on a bus and we'd cut out again to another place. When we came back to L.A., I stayed off the bus. I changed my mind. I said, I can't go back under this kind of circumstance... the music was getting lost as far as I was concerned."</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >"So I came back into contact with those people who had different ideas about life, these were mostly Black musicians, and we put our instruments together and started doing things like trying to showcase community artists at the highest level we could think of - to have it become a standard. So up to about five years ago, we've been doing that steady, rehearsing day and night and having a concert twice a month at these churches. The only way we felt we could get the music to the people was to take the music to the people, because they wouldn't come where it was and they had no idea what was happening. We thought the best way would be through churches and street corners, recreation halls and schools. Every one of them free. Free concerts."</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz-kJ7Lvu69ZUdq1MQN6S8AJqS6w9GhdAWwKh_YeYW7FDBgw4CKAkcCgdkcWMUelINfMilOO08B8_gnDXcu-AXLE7hedCwCl3PjRJgBN8o9XCR9CIeQ39St_TrGJL9wca8kFHwQg/s1600/cadence1984b-1.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 128px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz-kJ7Lvu69ZUdq1MQN6S8AJqS6w9GhdAWwKh_YeYW7FDBgw4CKAkcCgdkcWMUelINfMilOO08B8_gnDXcu-AXLE7hedCwCl3PjRJgBN8o9XCR9CIeQ39St_TrGJL9wca8kFHwQg/s200/cadence1984b-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550980248305649490" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">CAD:</span> Everyone had to support themselves by doing something else?</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">H.T.:</span> At that time, some of them had jobs, some of them had a hustle... But whatever they had, construction job or whatever, they'd be very tired when they got home from work, but they'd still be at the rehearsal. That's where all the energy would be used up. I got to the point where this music couldn't be denied anymore, it had to be listened to.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">We built ourselves up through the community through the years. The Pan-Afrikan People's Arkestra. Took us a long time. I mean, we got to know everybody in the community. It got to the point where they would say, "Where is our band?" And that really got me. We'd do giant concerts on weekends, like at South Park, the park at 51st and San Pedro... Give those concerts and it seemed like everybody in the community would show up. The babies that weren't born then, the babies that were being made, and the babies that were just beginning to walk grew up with this Arkestra. Lots of them went to school, came back and tried to help the Arkestra because their parents took them to every concert we ever had. They write about the Arkestra in the community.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">We was trying to inspire the artists, not only the musicians, but the other artists to do their art. Like the writers... They'd come here and be sitting in this room for many years and we'd talk about it. They'd say, "Well, what is there to write about?" I'd tell them, "Every morning the sun rises, there's something to write about, my man. Walk the street, you dig, look at it. There's so much to write about. You don't have to go off on nobody, just write and see what's happening. Then you grow." Cats started writing, some of the, singers got together, people started trying to put something together.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The long run has proven that a lot of these people are still here and they're still contributing. The idea of the Pan Afrikan People's Arkestra, that orchestra that came out of the UGMAA Foundation, was to preserve, present, to showcase music of unknown composers, Black composers who were never heard of before in this land. Starting with this land first, of course, and with this community first, in particular. Now, the idea had gotten across the country by word of mouth. Cats pass it from word of mouth like the cats back in Chicago. They had a group in Omaha, Nebraska called the UGMAA Foundation, too. Oliver Lake in St. Louis, all that was going on through the '60s and into the '70s. Then some of the people got signed on different record dates and they took off. Like Arthur (Blythe) went to New York, certain cats who were here at the beginning. John Handy was part of it too. There were about 35 original members. 'Bout half of them went to New York, San Francisco and overseas. There's 20 of them left here and they're still rehearsing up to the point where the hurricane a few weeks ago took the place away.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">CAD:</span> A <span style="font-style: italic;">hurricane</span> took the place??</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">H.T.:</span> Yeah, we had a place on Broadway... and that's what happened. We got a place on Vermont we can still rehearse in. The problem is not a facility this time, it's more the circumstances of a lot of the cats. I went on what you might call a sabbatical, so to speak, about five years ago. I'd gotten ill in '78, so, since we've had different leaders. I had to leave it alone because for 20 years, I was on it like that! (He snaps his fingers emphatically.)</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >During that initial period of coming together with like-minded musicians in the early '60s, Horace was also playing piano regularly at the Troubador Club in Los Angeles. An automobile accident he was in during his Air Force years had changed his embouchure and he wasn't satisfied with the sound he was getting on trombone. And all along, he had been playing piano with pointers from Dr. Samuel Browne.</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8yi0Gid8j7FTlW1maVP94Xpx7WwF2FYQYBv2uqapJy4UhM-jd9bWqNd76Gb7Kl682XKeGPOS9Q-j0ybTYC9Bb1C90asae9D1nqcP1G0HiSQE7mt8zXF_3-HOLfQ3iuqZimEj-Aw/s1600/cadence1984b-2.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 131px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8yi0Gid8j7FTlW1maVP94Xpx7WwF2FYQYBv2uqapJy4UhM-jd9bWqNd76Gb7Kl682XKeGPOS9Q-j0ybTYC9Bb1C90asae9D1nqcP1G0HiSQE7mt8zXF_3-HOLfQ3iuqZimEj-Aw/s200/cadence1984b-2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550980599157645090" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">At the Troubador, it was the only gig I had six nights a week where the owner says, "If you play anything but Jazz, you're going to have to get out of here"... It was straight ahead music we were playing then, and it was Elmo Hope, Jimmy Woods, Guido Sinclair, Charlie Lloyd sometimes, Walter Benton, and the drummer was a cat named Rafmad Jamal, bass player was Bill Pickens. Albert Stinson, he learned to play in that club, Bobby Hutcherson used to learn to play, him and Roy Ayers. They were youngsters then, used to come in to play every night. Ava Gardner used to come in, sit in the dark so she wouldn't be bothered and listen all night. The captain of the vice squad came in every night and we knew he was the police 'cause he had the police haircut, the police thing, but he was another kind of cat. He wouldn't bust nobody when he came, he said, "I come to listen to you people." And I thought that was nice, man, because he was really some other kind of cat, really a music lover. They try to put dope in all this stuff with Jazz, but it's not necessary. That was a good gig, the Troubador.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">CAD:</span> What are your plans for the future?</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">H.T.:</span> I'm trying to get some work up and down the coast of California, college, universities, concert halls, certain clubs... with a trio, and trying to get it together to do a cable TV show... trying to get it written by the different writers around. Tell them what, one, two, three... can you do it? On the cable hookup. Most likely, the next ten, fifteen years, I'll be dealing with the Arkestra, trying to build it to its final size of about 75, 100 pieces. With all that music. This is exactly what I would like to finish before I leave the planet. So when people, in years to come are having babies, they'll say, "I want to get into the so and so orchestra" - whatever it's called then. You see, they have orchestras that play the European classics but they don't have that for the American classics.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">CAD:</span> They keep trying to do something like that up in the Bay Area, but nothing really seems to stick...</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">H.T.:</span> That's why you have to stay on it because it's not going to be easy.</span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqQUtNRXE4y1QRPWQsx_pWBpFFYAoe02tpzgqqx0mPu_0zQ-S0L3YqLD6mFqQDBgMBbyde1esxWo2njeZruRNHdSa3nKT3mtVmmO7nS-XyabahCun7rizmJ_eYkizJxv1dt4dkGg/s1600/cadence1984b-3.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 129px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqQUtNRXE4y1QRPWQsx_pWBpFFYAoe02tpzgqqx0mPu_0zQ-S0L3YqLD6mFqQDBgMBbyde1esxWo2njeZruRNHdSa3nKT3mtVmmO7nS-XyabahCun7rizmJ_eYkizJxv1dt4dkGg/s200/cadence1984b-3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550980704145227730" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">CAD:</span> Right. Once it becomes an institution, it exists.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">H.T.:</span> It exists and it takes the people themselves to prove it. If the youngsters see you there, if you're alive and functioning, they see it happening and they believe. "Oh, you still here? You ain't getting no money for that... You still here?" "Yeah." The people have to learn that you just can't do things for money. Well, the youngsters are hip to it, like in Watts before the riots. They knew who was for real and who was jiving. I always say this, I was the only cat who could park his car in Watts and leave it open and it would be there when I got back, have the music and clothes in it and it was open. That's when you know it's cool.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">When the youngsters started dancing on the school grounds to the music you wrote... you should have seen me... I had a lump in my throat so big. Big old fat tear just fell out of my eye right quick before I realized what was happening. Kids about eight to ten years old. Street kids, and they was dancing. Whatever was wrong with me at the time just disappeared. That shot me up for another two years.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Finally they started having money to go down and teach the kids in Watts and East L.A., places like that. Ex-cons, ex-this and that, so a lot of Black activism come out. But some of them couldn't get along because the youngsters were too raw, too straight ahead. "If you weren't getting any money, you wouldn't be here!" See, we were playing there when the Black Panthers and Elaine Brown were working together, they were feeding the group. My band was ready for anything like that. Any group that was contributing to the whole, my band would play for free. That's what we did for all the Black groups of those days, for years and years and years and years. To prove a point that the music had to live.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">CAD:</span> Are you any less idealistic than when you started, or more so?</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">H.T.:</span> I would say more so. It's not a lost cause since I'm breathing still, there's still something that can be done. The approach, the way you do it, is important now, it's what you think about mostly. How you can get it over to the point where (the music) becomes an everyday kind of function without even thinking about it. How you can pass this on without making a big deal out of it. It's like when you have a youngster and you want them to appreciate colors, just fill their room with colors, don't tell them about it, just let it be there.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I might have went somewhere and made some money - those kinds of questions have been asked. I would explain it like this. I can't come over to a person's house and say, "I don't like the couch by the window - put it over there." Because if I come to his home, he wants me to sit in it where he's got it, you dig, not where I want it. Same way playing that music in the studios. They want you to play a certain kind of way. And you don't want to do that. No point wasting their or your time. That's one of the reasons the money scene has been such a long ways off, because I had to respect where these people were coming from. But my thing is important enough that it can be dealt with in that same way.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The way it is now, the music itself is in a circle. All the commercial music is waiting for the real music to do something else so they can grab onto that. But it's never disappeared. The music keeps going decade through decade... This music here belongs to those of us who appreciate good music. And want to inspire to keep it happening for generations, to have a strong enough voice to demand different things as one solid group. Like the European classics have one solid group to take care of it. That's what we need in this music. That way, it's always hooked up. The acoustics are good, people will be there to listen. It's something that can be done, but there's some things that have to be done on an independent level, away from corporations and clubs and back to the rank and file people on the street.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">CAD:</span> You've played with or listened to just about everyone in modern Jazz. Who influenced your playing?</span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9D-CCUsAVbn3K59lYPHtCuO7-Dp1MLz41nBhEUSspfP6QJnhGp6tgPXlHiKNJBllHAROY-iwmtomZ4wpjzjmus95NL4no-aLGnRrnpArHVWTzCq74Xn28HodVugNs4s6w0KZ9lA/s1600/cadence1984b-4.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 131px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9D-CCUsAVbn3K59lYPHtCuO7-Dp1MLz41nBhEUSspfP6QJnhGp6tgPXlHiKNJBllHAROY-iwmtomZ4wpjzjmus95NL4no-aLGnRrnpArHVWTzCq74Xn28HodVugNs4s6w0KZ9lA/s200/cadence1984b-4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550980931548569186" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">H.T.:</span> I would say Art Tatum and Samuel Browne had an influence on my playing, and a cat named Roosevelt Wardell. There are several people I love to listen to as far as influence. If I was to buy piano records I would buy Andrew Hill, Randy Weston, people like Red Garland. The way Andrew plays, I love it... it's creative all the time. Other than that, Art Tatum, the way he'd interpret in his own way. Hopefully, that's what I can leave here, in my own way. Naturally, you're going to be influenced - you should be. Course my mom was in there because she's one of those stride pianists... that's a lot of piano playing. As far as my writing, Gerald Wilson and Duke Ellington. Actually, Gerald was the cat who taught and helped me to write. And most of the writers today are based on that, though they wouldn't admit it. Other than that, here and there, serendipity kind of thing. By being part of the groups, asking questions in how to do this, how to do that. That's helped me to get to the point, like that album with Sonny Criss, "Sonny's Dream." Ever heard that album? All those compositions were just influenced by people around me. Take it over and let the cats hear it. Several times cats have heard me play and then they say, Errol Garner, and then they say there's a little Meade Lux Lewis. My point is, I'd like to contribute toward this great American classic, which it is.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Los Angeles, CA - 5/28/83<br /><br /><br /><br /></span></div>bertrandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04478921099297575752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24009309.post-1142472291323129212010-02-14T23:17:00.000+01:002010-12-15T13:43:25.292+01:00Horace Tapscott: Interview by Serge Baudot<div align="justify"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:180%;" ><strong><br /></strong></span><div style="text-align: right; font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://bjazz.blogspot.com/2010/02/this-blog-which-has-been-started-in.html" target="blank"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">-> INDEX</span><br /></a></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:180%;" ><strong></strong></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-size:180%;" ><strong><br /><br />West Coast Hot<br /></strong></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">Interview publiée dans Jazz Hot, n° 548, en mars 1998<br />Propos recueillis et traduits par Serge Baudot<br /></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Horace Tapscott, né le 6 avril 1934 à Houston, Texas, reste un pédagogue et un militant de la cause du peuple noir aux Etats-Unis. Il s'est donné la mission de faire comprendre à sa communauté que le jazz est sa musique, son plus bel héritage, sa revanche sur </span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;">l'esclavage. Il est aussi un musicien original, trop rare sous nos cieux, dont le cursus comm</span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;">ence, en tant que tromboniste, à Los Angeles dans un orchestre scolaire aux côtés d'Eric Dolphy et de Don Cherry, pour croiser ensuite la route de Gerald Wilson (1950-51), Lionel Hampton (1958-61), avant que des problèmes de santé le conduisent à se consacrer au seul piano. Il est grand, svelte, chaleureux, plein d'humour, d'une gentillesse et d'une générosité à toute épreuve. Sa musique est belle, élégante, empreinte des racines, du blues et du gospel. Son phrasé au piano - qui n'est pas sans rappeler parfois Randy Weston - est un extraordinaire composé de stride, de b</span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;">e</span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;">bop et de free avec à la main gauche des harmonies touchant parfois à la dissonance. Découverte d'une</span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"> personnalité exceptionnelle.<br /></span><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAjX8WV8whR3Fmrk6NiglLr-5KEIbea2nQomgmLiHnsCllhloQn1mU-7on2Fju_Va8nj3_CdRjGV0DAaAw5FD2rc9zaRaNdtPwH9tVLTiopBk2cbAkaIboNwPG3GyzxyzarFvYug/s1600-h/jazzhot.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 141px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAjX8WV8whR3Fmrk6NiglLr-5KEIbea2nQomgmLiHnsCllhloQn1mU-7on2Fju_Va8nj3_CdRjGV0DAaAw5FD2rc9zaRaNdtPwH9tVLTiopBk2cbAkaIboNwPG3GyzxyzarFvYug/s200/jazzhot.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437342697151315138" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Jazz Hot</span> Y avait-il des musiciens dans votre famille quand vous étiez, enfant ?<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Horace T</span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">apscott</span> Oui, ma mère jouait du piano et du saxhorn (famille de l'euphonium). Elle avait son propre groupe de jazz avec Mary Lou Malone en 1920. Elle jouait dans les clubs. Bien sûr dans les clubs pour Noirs ; il y avait une forte ségrégation au Texas.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JH</span> Qu 'écoutiez-vous au Texas ?<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> Le blues. Il a bercé ma petite enfance, la maison était toujours pleine de musiciens de blues. Il y avait un piano à droite de l'entrée, et tous les week-ends des tas d'amis venaient et jouaient, et je les écoutais assis par terre. Un peu plus tard, j'ai écouté les spirituals à l'église avec des orchestres de dix-sept musiciens, et le boogie-woogie dans les clubs, avec notamment Johnny Guitar Watson.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JH </span>Pour quelles raisons avez-vous quitté le Texas ?<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> C'était en 1943, pour des raisons économiques. Mon beau-père avait trouvé un travail en Californie, à Los Angeles. La première chose qu'a fait ma mère en sortant du train et en descendant Central Avenue, ce fut de faire arrêter la voiture, parce qu'elle avait aperçu Harry Southard. C'était la</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> première personne que je rencontrais là et ce fut mon professeur de trombone. Finalement j'avais trois professeurs de musique, un pour le trombone, un pour le tuba et un autre pour le piano. Ils habitaient à côté de chez nous. Ma mère ne savait pas lire la musique, mais elle a voulu que j'apprenne, ce que j'ai fait aussi à Los Angeles. Elle me disait : « Ecoute d'abord, et lis ensuite ! » Ce n'était pas difficile d'apprendre les deux en même temps.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JH </span>Dans quel ordre avez-vous appris à jouer de ces trois instruments, et quel était le favori ?<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> J’ai commencé par le piano, puis le trombone, puis le tuba. J'ai joué du trombone parce qu'à l'époque on considérait que le piano c'était pour les filles, ça ne faisait pas viril ! A Houston j'étais allé à un concert avec ma mère, j'ai entendu le trombone ; ça, c'était un son qui faisait vraiment « macho » ! Alors j'ai joué du trombone.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JH </span>Pourquoi</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> avez-vous finalement abandonné cet instrument ?</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> J'ai eu un accident de voiture en 1952 dont la conséquence fut de me rendre difficile le jeu du trombone. Pourtant j'ai réussi à jouer un solo pour mon diplôme ; il y avait là toute la famille, le professeur, j'étais très fier. J'ai abandonné le trombone dans l'orchestre de l'Air Force en 1953, puis je l'ai repris dans l'orchestre de Lionel Hampton à New York en 1958. Mais après ça je l'ai laissé tomber définitivement. Je travaillais encore deux instruments, ce qui me prenait quatre heures par jour, c'est énorme. Je jouais du tuba dans un orchestre classique, et du jazz au piano.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JH</span> Avez-vous eu l'occasion de jouer avec lllinois Jacquet ?<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> Oui, mais pas chez Hampton. Je l'ai rencontré dans des orchestres au Texas. Mais je dois dire qu'à ce moment-là, ça ne m'a pas marqué.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JH</span> Quelles ont été vos influences ?<br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5URB01hMs6-ZzvY-eWGtKXzGX3QVL6SlWD_P2vGkW6Bptopq0mytrhxy26VrYCIvZT99BAMlWvAaRRuh5M9z_RK-A1emDYvvD4rdIg6z04YcBpCIbTUVmQnlPCn7lEYRGmWiABg/s1600-h/jazzhot1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 140px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5URB01hMs6-ZzvY-eWGtKXzGX3QVL6SlWD_P2vGkW6Bptopq0mytrhxy26VrYCIvZT99BAMlWvAaRRuh5M9z_RK-A1emDYvvD4rdIg6z04YcBpCIbTUVmQnlPCn7lEYRGmWiABg/s200/jazzhot1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437377311933381282" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> D'abord ma mère qui jouait dans le style de James P. J</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ohnson, puis mes professeurs de musique. Ensuite les pianistes, Duke Ellington, Art Tatu</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">m, Earl Hines, Erroll Garner. Quand Garner jouait à Los A</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ngeles, il venait m'écouter pendant sa pause. Il avait des mains plus petites que moi et pourtant il pouvait faire des intervalles de treizième. Il m'a montré comment le faire et j'y suis arrivé. Roosevelt Wardell m'a montré comment utiliser l'annulaire. Une autre de mes influences fut le pianiste Dr. Samuel Brown. Il disait : « Quand t'as ton diplôme, pars et joue ! ». Aux alentours de 1949, il enseignait là où répétaient les frères Marshall et Ernie Royal, ainsi qu'Art Farmer. J'ai beaucoup appris de Tatum rien qu'à l'écouter et à le regarder jouer. J'ai grandi dans Central Avenue. Là, tous les jeunes pouvaient jouer avec les grands ; quelle meilleure école pouviez-vous trouver ?<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JH</span> De 1953 à 1957 vous avez été membre de l'Air Force Band ; y avait-il des musiciens connus ?<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> Connus ? Pas vraiment. Peut-être le batteur Billy James de Philadelphie et le sax ténor Houston Person. Je jouais du tuba dans l'orchestre symphonique et dans la fanfare, et j'avais un groupe de cinq musi</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ciens avec lequel je jouais des standards, du be</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">bop, des thèmes de Parker, Gillespie, au piano et au trombone.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JH</span> Vous avez accompagné le chanteur Leon Thomas...</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> Leon Thomas était dans l'Arkestra avant de jouer avec Pharoah Sanders. On ne se quittait plus. Mais nous avons joué seulement dans des sessions.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JH</span> Vous aimez travailler avec des chanteurs...<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> Ça dépend du chanteur. Mais oui, j'aime ; comme par exemple avec Elaine Brown qui était en relation avec les Black Panthers. Elle poursuivait des expériences vocales, nous avons fait deux disques ensemble.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JH</span> Et Thelonious Monk ?<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> Monk ne m'a pas influencé, nos styles n'ont rien à voir. On s'est juste dit bonjour. J'aime beaucoup McCoy Tyner, je le connais bien. Et Randy Weston, et Andrew Hill. Ils étaient à Los Angeles il y a cinq ou six ans. J'ai rencontré Coltrane en 1961, Dolphy m</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">e l'avait présenté. Nous n'avons pas joué ensemble. Personne n'avait d'argent, ni Elvin Jones, ni Jimmy Garrison ; Coltrane était </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">toujours là pour les soutenir. Il était comme un nuage venant recouvrir les autres. Mais il n'a pas eu de réelle influence sur moi. Il est resté longtemps dans le coin.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JH </span>Pourtant il semble que votre musique ait été marquée par le jeu modal ?<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> C'était de la musique spirituelle, il n'y avait que peu de gens pour l'écouter. Beaucoup la qualifiait de « musique de fous », on lui donnait toutes sortes de noms. Mais, vous savez, tout est basé sur le blues. C'est la musique classique américaine. Trente ans plus tard, ces musiciens sont presque tous morts, mais leur musique reste. Moi j'ai toujours été content, je crois en la musique, je refuse d'entrer dans le système commercial. On m'appelait le « gangster modal ». Des tas de jeunes jouaient comme ça, mais ils n'avaient pas une idée précise de ce qu'ils faisaient.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JH</span> En 1961, vous dirigez, le Pan-African Peoples Arkestra. Y avait-il un lien avec Sun Ra ?<br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirfcMg3geAEMpjYyO-D-8sqBsoPQrdXUtLJdSEy68wrqHzBacu5ZeZwoda55L4qdxwn2hd1pMzVnzdJGrj_qJrqtNfc_KIi9Qokjc4VzNrzXEMZvc3f7idIcAry8RV8pZVcU-BBQ/s1600-h/jazzhot2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 141px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirfcMg3geAEMpjYyO-D-8sqBsoPQrdXUtLJdSEy68wrqHzBacu5ZeZwoda55L4qdxwn2hd1pMzVnzdJGrj_qJrqtNfc_KIi9Qokjc4VzNrzXEMZvc3f7idIcAry8RV8pZVcU-BBQ/s200/jazzhot2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437377681307360898" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> Oui, nous poursuivions le même but. Nous avons fait des concerts ensemble. Nous voulions garder la musique pure. J'ai été élevé dans le respect de la pureté de la musique. Il sentait qu'il sauvait son peuple en préservant la </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">musique noire, et les musiciens. Nous étions concernés par le fait de voir la musique mise à sa vraie place. Nous jouions pour les enfants, nous leur parlions de la musique, pour la promouvoir, pour que les petits Noirs la comprennent, pour leur apprendre que c'était </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">leur musique et qu'ainsi ils la respectent. Sun Ra s'en est préoccupé le premier, et moi ensuite. Sun Ra était un type remarquable. Une fois, alors que j'étais malade, il est venu chez moi pour m'écouter. En 1970 ou 1972, il m'a fait rencontrer Roland Kirk, une grande rencontre.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JH</span> Avez-vous joué avec Ornette Coleman ?<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> J'ai rencontré Ornette en 1950, mais je n'ai pas joué avec lui, il avait son propre groupe. Il portait les cheveux longs. Il n'a pas eu d'influence sur moi.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JH</span> ...et Charles Mingus ?<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> Oui, j'ai même joué avec lui. Le chef d'orchestre Percy McDavid nous avait fait nous rencontrer. Avec lui il y avait Buddy Collette, Teddy Edwards, les frères Royal, les frères Farmer, Red Callen</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">der.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JH</span> Considérez-vous que la musique d'Eric Dolphy et d'Ornette Coleman a été un nouveau langage jazzique et qu 'il y a eu rupture entre tradition et free jazz ?</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> Un nouveau langage ? Dizz et Bird ont fait une musique nouvelle. Eux ont changé la musique. Au lieu de jouer les changements d'accords, ils jouaient en même temps, il y avait un lien très fort entre Bird et Dizz. Bird jouait la mélodie avec un phrasé nouveau. Dolphy et Ornette sont aussi ancrés dans le blues, mais pour Ornette l'approche est différente ; c'est une extension de Parker et Gillespie. C'est une évolution, ce n'est pas nouveau, c'est comme une combinaison de couleurs ; certaines couleurs sont similaires, mais le résultat d'ensemble est différent.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JH</span> Quand avez-vous créé l'UGMAA (d'abord Underground Musicians Association, puis Union of God's Musicians and Artists Ascension), dont le Pan-African Peoples Arkestra est issu ? Quel en est le statut ? Quels en étaient les membres ?<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> L'UGMAA est un groupe de musiciens dont la musique n'a pas été acceptée, comme l'a été par exemp</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">le celle d'Ornette Coleman ou de Cecil Taylor. J'ai formé ce groupe de trente-cinq personnes avec Linda Hill, David Bryant, Lester Robertson, Allan Hines et Dido Saint-Clair. L'Arkestra est né en même temps, ce devait être en 1961, et tous ces gens en faisaient partie, pour jouer une musique originale. Linda Hill et moi écrivions la plupart des musiques. Il y a 350 morceaux au répertoire. Nous donnions des concerts gratuits dans les </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">écoles, les communautés, les églises, les parcs. Nous avons fait ça pendant dix ans afin de créer un public et de permettre aux jeunes de jouer. Pour gagner ma vie, j'accompagnais des chanteurs et je faisais des gigs pendant les week-ends à dix dollars le cachet. Nous vivions en communauté dans une immense maison à Los Angeles, à Watts, dans le Sud. Vous en avez entendu parler ? Nous avons eu raison car les effets en sont encore sensibles vingt ans après.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JH</span> Vous avez donc vécu les émeutes de Watts en 1965 ?<br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkKtCThJMNFq-9hRX4pUAzWusmhqWifzgL3o9vnVJxkfTWE278LidbBGYqTdFhm2H2DZtzaVvR38Cbn2PXr9tGeds667qejyZnnn5I-B9dZRY9-dLrVyW9CDEBOV8OQWivtEQ6FA/s1600-h/jazzhot3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 140px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkKtCThJMNFq-9hRX4pUAzWusmhqWifzgL3o9vnVJxkfTWE278LidbBGYqTdFhm2H2DZtzaVvR38Cbn2PXr9tGeds667qejyZnnn5I-B9dZRY9-dLrVyW9CDEBOV8OQWivtEQ6FA/s200/jazzhot3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437379018424605730" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> La police disait que nous étions responsables de tout ça, que c'était notre musique qui avait tout déclenché. Les fédéraux étaient après nous parce que nous jouions pour ces gens-là. Une fois, ils ont interrompu l'orchestre sous la menace de leurs armes. Un policier m'a mis un canon sur la tempe, il a armé et m'a dit : « Si tu n'arrêtes pas, je tire ! ». J'ai continué. Il n'a pas t</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">iré. C'est ça la chance ! Ensuite ils ont essayé de nous mettre en état d'arrestation, mais il y avait trop de gens qui hurlaient et dansaient. Il y a eu trente-cinq morts à Watts, mais la musique avait marqué un point. A partir de ce moment-là, les parents nous ont envoyé leurs enfants, et nous avions des professeu</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">rs pour leur donner, en plus de la musique, des cours de poésie, de théâtre, de danse. Nous avions un nom, nous étions respectés. Oui, la musique s'est révélée avoir du pouvoir ; depuis j'ai toujours eu l'approbation des gens de la communauté.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JH</span> Dans UGMAA la lettre G est pour God...<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> Je crois en Dieu. Nous avons utilisé ce mot parce que nous croyons que la musique vient de Dieu qui, par ce moyen, nous transmet un message de paix et d'égalité. Cela signifie que nous sommes ici pour exister et nous voulons qu'on donne à notre musique la reconnaissance qu'elle mérite. Maintenant les choses vont mieux qu'avant, certainement à cause de notre insistance.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JH</span> Des musiciens blancs ont-ils adhéré à l'UGMAA ? Aviez-vous des relations avec les musiciens west coast ?<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> Non, aucune relation. Ils ne nous parlaient pas vraiment. Nous n'avons pas joué avec eux. Nous étions complètement sépares par la ségrégation raciale. Je crois que mon groupe leur faisait peur. Il y avait chaque soir vingt-cinq types sur la scène, sans aucune partition, et qui jouaient comme des fous. Nous jouions tout de mémoire. La seule relation que</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> nous ayons eu avec les Blancs fut celle avec Howard Rumsey qui engagea l'orchestre pour deux soirs au Lighthouse (célèbre club de Los Angeles).<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JH</span> Est-ce que l'UGMAA continue d'exister ?<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> Oui, bien sûr. Certains des membres sont morts. Mais je vis toujours là-bas. Elle durera jusqu'à mon dernier souffle, et même après car les jeunes la continueront. On peut rejouer ma musique.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JH</span> Quand avez-vous créé le label Nimbus ?<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> En 1971. C’est Tom Albach qui est venu le créer. Nous voulions enregistrer notre musique ! Nimbus existe encore. Il publie une série de pianos solos.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JH</span> Vous avez eu des rapports assez difficiles avec les maisons de disques. On ne reparlera pas des incidents du mixage chez Flying Dutchman, mais il y a eu d’autres « ennuis ».<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> Oh ! oui. Par exemple j'ai écrit une pièce qui s'appelle « The Isle of Celia » (Sonny Criss l'a enregistrée depuis}. Je suis venu au studio avec ma musique et j'en suis reparti avec. Ils voulaient que je fasse des changements, alors j'ai ramassé mes affaires et je suis</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> parti. Ce qui m'a valu dix ans de mise à l'index. Mais j'ai toujours le master, je peux faire le disque quand je veux.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JH</span> Quels sont vos rapports avec l'écriture musicale ?<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> J'ai écrit 78 compositions, des pièces en trois parties pour grand orchestre, comme le L.A. Philarmonic, pour qui j'ai composé Ancestral Echoes, une œuvre en quatre parties. J'ai d'abord l'idée, je mûris la musique dans ma tête, je l'entends, puis elle disparaît, et elle revient. Je l'écris alors directement. Ensuite, je la joue au piano, pour en corriger les erreurs.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JH</span> Vous avez toujours consacré beaucoup de temps à votre vocation pédagogique, qu 'en est-il maintenant ?<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> Oh ! j'enseigne d'une façon particulière ; et bénévolement. Chaque jour, je parcours la rue de long en large, ou bien je me promène dans un parc, suivi par des enfants, des jeunes. Ils viennent volontiers et souvent. Je leur parle de la musique, pour qu'ils la regardent en face, qu'ils sachent ce qu'elle veut dire. Il n'y a pas de règles. Ils écoutent ce qu'ils veulent. Quand j'enseigne, j'apprends, c'est moi qui suis gagnant. Les gosses de ma classe sont tous hip hop. Leurs grands-pères étaient déjà des rappeurs sans le savoir. Et les gosses ne le s</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">avent pas non plus. Parfois, par exemple, je leur fais écouter Louis Jordan ; ils voient vite que ça participe de la même idée.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JH</span> Vous êtes donc intéressé par le rap, allez-vous vous en servir dans votre musique ?<br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE03c8vEkllWc4KLKF5UMSlRuPgzmrtUGC7cjQVivdVszvDMkIIe4AAJewxmR2ASKSPbr1a_NzHbypqH-ffhJk53BskKhSzQGvYW2TqEPv7Szv6jPhyphenhyphenNYlzmP_DrehGIZyeuihKA/s1600-h/jazzhot4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 140px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE03c8vEkllWc4KLKF5UMSlRuPgzmrtUGC7cjQVivdVszvDMkIIe4AAJewxmR2ASKSPbr1a_NzHbypqH-ffhJk53BskKhSzQGvYW2TqEPv7Szv6jPhyphenhyphenNYlzmP_DrehGIZyeuihKA/s200/jazzhot4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437379972575220322" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> Je ne sais pas. Mais ça évolue vite, il se passera sûrement de belles choses de ce côté-là. Il y a un groupe, Take Six, qui se définit comme rappeurs spirituels, c'est en fait un groupe de gospel. Un autre groupe, Night for the Rappers, est un mélange de jazz et de rap. Le beat, le feeling sont parfaits. Mais vous savez, ce mouvement a en fait démarré au début des années soixante. Les premiers rappeurs étaient des militants noirs qui racontaient leurs démêlés avec la police. Les Last Poets étaient en quelque sorte des rappeurs. « Rap », c'est un nom dont la connotation est mauvaise pour les Américains blancs ; comme « jazz », « blues » ; on y retrouve les problèmes et les interdits du racisme et de la ségrégation. Les rappeurs d'aujourd'hui commencent à comprendre que leur musique fait partie de leur culture, qu'ils sont assis dessus. Je pense aussi à Free Style Foundation : il y a une basse et une batterie, et je joue du piano avec eux. Nous sommes les « O.G. players » (0. G. = old guys, les pépés musicos). En général, dans ce quartier, les jeunes ne parlent pas aux vieux. Mais tous ces jeunes viennent à moi et me parlent. Ça, c'est parce que je suis là, que je vis là. S'ils vous voient tous les jours, ils savent que vous vous souciez d'eux, que ce n'est pas de la frime. On ne peut pas arrêter les combats entre bandes de jeunes de l'extérieur ; il faut vivre là, au milieu d'eux, et leur redonner leur identité.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JH</span> Que pensez-vous de la nouvelle génération, de Wynton Marsalis entre autres ?<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> Ils font ce que les anciens ont fait. Il faut d'abord imiter. Je les aime. J'aime beaucoup Joshua Redman, il a débuté à 22 ans, il est en train d'évoluer. Pour moi, Wynton est number one. La musique doit être préservée et ces gens-là la préservent. Un type comme Roy Hargrove la respecte. Je suis heureux qu'ils soient là. C'est pourquoi je reste maintenant plus souvent à New York. A Los Angeles, il y a trop de jeunes musiciens sans conscience. Ceux dont nous parlons pourraient sombrer dans le commercial, mais pour eux la musique est sacrée ; ils la maintiennent en vie. Leur contribution est importante. Ils respectent cette idée : je t'apprends si à ton tour tu apprends aux autres. J'ai pleuré quand Wynton a reçu son Grammy, parce que ça appartient aussi à Armstrong, etc. J'apprécie leur attitude. Ce sont de merveilleux interprètes et ils sont créatifs parce qu'ils changent quelque chose. Aujourd'hui, rien ne peut être tout à fait nouveau. Avec l'enregistrement, on sait ce qu'ont fait les autres. Et pourtant, il faut être capable de créer après les avoir entendus. Tous ces musiciens s'accompliront en temps voulu ; ils apprennent, j'espère qu'ils continueront. Ne vous inquiétez pas de ce que disent les critiques !<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JH</span> Leur musique n 'est-elle pas une sorte de collage ?<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> Oui, c'est exactement cela, c'est un collage. Toute la musique américaine n'est qu'une seule et même composition. Nous avons besoin d'encore plus de collages pour que le peuple américain connaisse sa musique. Ellis, le père des frères Marsalis, la leur a enseignée, c'est pour ça qu'ils sont ce qu'ils sont. Et c'était à La Nouvelle-Orléans, le berceau de notre musique. La ségrégation remet tout le monde au même niveau.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JH</span> Que pensez-vous du distinguo que certains établissent entre musique sacrée et musique du diable ?<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> Je suis des deux côtés. Notre musique est la musique du diable, mais le dimanche elle devient musique sacrée, à cause de l'endroit où elle est jouée (sourire céleste}.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JH </span>Qu'est-ce que le jazz pour vous ?<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HT</span> C'est tout. La musique de l'Amérique. Dans le jazz tout se mêle. Je rattache la musique à tout ce que je fais. On ne peut rien séparer. J'écoute avec tout mon métabolisme, et je joue comme ça. J'entends un oiseau, d'autres oiseaux lui répondent, j'écris ce que j'entends, sur le rythme.<br /><br /><br /><br /></span></div>bertrandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04478921099297575752noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24009309.post-74713055972030770862010-02-14T23:16:00.000+01:002010-12-15T13:42:59.537+01:00Horace Tapscott by Serge Baudot<span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:180%;" ><strong><br /></strong></span><div style="text-align: right; font-weight: bold; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><a href="http://bjazz.blogspot.com/2010/02/this-blog-which-has-been-started-in.html" target="blank"">-> INDEX<br /></a></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:180%;" ><strong><br /></strong></span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Article publié dans Jazz Hot , n° 559, en avril 1999</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQumUk-E8AlLuH7ZfSZMY-s2GoJkCD7rPcz1tOjMxeZ04qF5_oPS7kcI_UakiGS86u6K9pHQG1FQcr3AFTrKfjNaPnN6wX9d8UIe9xGeV8p1PcG5JgVLcWH_1NNBBVP-rCsNyObQ/s1600-h/jazzhot%23559.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 142px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQumUk-E8AlLuH7ZfSZMY-s2GoJkCD7rPcz1tOjMxeZ04qF5_oPS7kcI_UakiGS86u6K9pHQG1FQcr3AFTrKfjNaPnN6wX9d8UIe9xGeV8p1PcG5JgVLcWH_1NNBBVP-rCsNyObQ/s200/jazzhot%23559.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443705721649879154" border="0" /></a>Jour de tristesse, larmes amères. Encore un pianiste de légende qui nous quitte. Il y a quelques jours c’était Michel Petrucciani, puis Jaki Byard dans des circonstances tragiques, et aujourd’hui c’est Horace Tapscott. Quelque chose de la beauté du monde s’en est allé avec eux, mais le piano, le jazz et le disque garderont leur mémoire et leurs apports à jamais pour que chante en nous leur musique.<br />Horace Tapscott, né à Houston, Texas, le 6 avril 1934, est mort le 27 février 1999 à Los Angeles. Il s’était donné la mission de faire comprendre à son peuple, les Noirs d’Amérique, que le jazz était sa musique, son plus bel héritage, sa revanche sur l’esclavage. Il menait ce travail de pédagogue surtout auprès des enfants. Joignant les actes à la parole, il s’était installé en 1965 dans Watts, le ghetto de Los Angeles, où il avait sauvé bien des choses par son courage devant la police lors des tristement célèbres émeutes. Là, il avait vu que la musique pouvait avoir en plus d’un pouvoir de distraction, le pouvoir de faire respecter la dignité humaine. En militant absolu, il avait fondé l’UGMAA (Union of God’s Musicians and Artists Ascension) et le Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra qui donnait des concerts gratuits pour la communauté noire, lui gagnant sa vie dans des gigs à 10 dollars. Pour les mêmes raisons il créera le label Nimbus (<a href="http://bjazz.blogspot.com/2006/03/horace-tapscott-interview.html">son interview dans <span style="font-style: italic;">Jazz Hot</span> n°548</a> est révélatrice de son cheminement).<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Il avait commencé sa carrière musicale par le trombone avec Eric Dolphy et Don Cherry puis Gerald Wilson et Lionel Hampton. Pour des raisons de santé, il s’était mis au piano où il se révéla être un grand créateur, jouant avec Roy Haynes, Arthur Blythe, Red Callender, Andrew Cyrille, Cecil McBee, Charles Mingus, etc.</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /></span><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij-hpWP7YcUscdF_TIHYaUPTa4oG6XXw819y3NhJSEaOfmCb8pPnPTFH9Jz93-HDBKNqtESxWog62peFEltm_0OUViV6pG9lXUfISWcKPhEfGil-q1a_xDxV4nDLeNJhC63zK0SQ/s1600-h/jazzhot%23559_1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 131px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij-hpWP7YcUscdF_TIHYaUPTa4oG6XXw819y3NhJSEaOfmCb8pPnPTFH9Jz93-HDBKNqtESxWog62peFEltm_0OUViV6pG9lXUfISWcKPhEfGil-q1a_xDxV4nDLeNJhC63zK0SQ/s200/jazzhot%23559_1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443705729313172818" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Sa musique est belle, élégante, empreinte des racines, du blues et du gospel. Au piano, il reconnaissait comme première influence sa mère qui jouait dans le style de James P. Johnson, puis Duke Ellington, Art Tatum, Earl Hines, Erroll Garner. Son phrasé est un extraordinaire composé de stride, de bebop et de free avec à la main gauche des harmonies touchant parfois à la dissonance. Fait assez rare, il aimait travailler avec des chanteurs comme Leon Thomas ou Elaine Brown. L’homme était grand, élégant, chaleureux et plein d’humour, humble, courageux jusqu’à la témérité comme à Watts, d’une gentillesse et d’une générosité à toute épreuve. Je n’oublierai pas cette rencontre à La Seyne-sur-Mer en 1995, où il avait séduit tout le monde par la richesse de sa personnalité ; ni le grand concert qu’il nous y offrit ; ni son attitude au piano quand, emporté par sa musique, son corps semblait aller à la chute mais revenait se placer devant le clavier à l’instant précis où les doigts devaient se poser sur les touches. Pour lui, le jazz était la musique de l’Amérique, un immense collage, une seule et même composition. Il disait qu’il écoutait avec tout son métabolisme et qu’il jouait comme ça. Il était aussi compositeur, définissant ainsi sa démarche : « J’entends un oiseau, d’autres oiseaux lui répondent. J’écris ce que j’entends, sur le rythme. »</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />Frère de Mingus, il avait, à Watts, trouvé des réponses différentes, sur place, aux mêmes interrogations, ce qui le priva de la reconnaissance internationale en dehors d’un cercle d’amateurs et de professionnels curieux (en France, Gérard Terronès et Alain Dupuy-Raufaste). Il est d’une génération de musiciens qui ne souciaient pas de leur carrière ; ils étaient libres et jouaient comme on prie, leur lyrisme venant du fond de l’âme pour étinceler dans le cœur humain</span>.<br /><br /><br /></div>bertrandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04478921099297575752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24009309.post-16013589707553614252010-02-14T23:15:00.000+01:002010-12-15T13:42:45.437+01:00Horace Tapscott by Andy Thomas<span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:180%;" ><strong><br /></strong></span><div style="text-align: right; font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://bjazz.blogspot.com/2010/02/this-blog-which-has-been-started-in.html" target="blank"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">-> INDEX</span><br /></a></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:180%;" ><strong><br /></strong></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />SAFE HAVEN</span></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Published in <a href="http://www.waxpoetics.com/">Wax Poetics</a> <a href="http://www.waxpoetics.com/2009/03/wax-poetics-issue-34/">n°34</a></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153);">Pianist and composer</span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">Horace Tapsco</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">tt</span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153);">c</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153);">ultivated the Los Angeles</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153);"> jazz community</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">text</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" > Andy Thomas</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >“<span style="font-style: italic;">I am Horace Tapscott</span></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >My fingers are dancing grassroots</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >I do not fit into form, I create form</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >My ears are radar charting the whispers of my anc</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >estors</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-style: italic;">I seek the divinity in outcasts, the r</span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-style: italic;">ichnes</span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-style: italic;">s o</span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-style: italic;">f rebels</span>”</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >-Kamau Daaood, from the poem “PAPA, the Le</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >an Grio</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >t”</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_A5FtpUAU3t4lgygNGbDA5hNC1RHnUcX5_ODMHNMWSPfngQR_Lw3wRWKVS3SSrIHO_oo0NRmbBJjsM_XjDgzLPrmKSkBQJ6Vt1qfo55DWKvS4PM3Og0tDrFjpmXEQJhD7ffKqjw/s1600-h/waxpoetics.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 140px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_A5FtpUAU3t4lgygNGbDA5hNC1RHnUcX5_ODMHNMWSPfngQR_Lw3wRWKVS3SSrIHO_oo0NRmbBJjsM_XjDgzLPrmKSkBQJ6Vt1qfo55DWKvS4PM3Og0tDrFjpmXEQJhD7ffKqjw/s200/waxpoetics.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441481641550164338" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">“It’s like bringing up your children in a certain area because you want them to grow and be awar</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">e of certain things. T</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">his same principle applied to us, as far as Black musicians were concerned,” proclaimed the late pianist, composer, te</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">acher, and community activist Horace Tapscott in the notes to <span style="font-style: italic;">Live at I.U.C.C.</span> by th</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">e Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkes</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">tra, the towering spiritual jazz ense</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">mble founded by Tapscott in his </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">adopted home of Los Angeles back i</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">n 1961.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Formed as a self-help arts collective to bring pride to the community, the Arkestra symbolized Tapscot</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">t’s desire for </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Black empowerment, and the need for his people to reach back to their ancestral roots for survival. Over thirty years and amid two major social uprisings, the musical and social guidance of this modern-day urban griot helped create a sense of family and belonging across the generations, as an artistic village was built within Los Angeles’ socially divided sprawl.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Born in 1934, Horace Tapscott spent his early years in Houston, where</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> he soon became acutely aware of the chains that bound him. “When we got on the bus, my mo</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ther started heading right to the back of the bus by the ‘Colored’ s</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ign</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">,” he recalled to political writer Michael Slate shortly before his death in 1999. “And I</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> r</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">emember my mother say</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ing, ‘Come hère, Horace.’ And I said I wanted to sit where I was.”</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Arriving in California in 1943, H</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">orace’s mo</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ther headed straight for t</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">he jazz hub of Central Avenue, introducing her son to the cats hanging around the Black Musicians’ Union. At the age of fourteen, Horace met Cec</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ilia, who became his soul mate and eventually his wife. “Cecilia and I used to walk the streets together, and we got to see</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> all these people,” he recalled in his autobiography, <span style="font-style: italic;">Songs of the Unsung</span>. “We used to liste</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">n to Art Tatum, Red Callender, and Bill Douglass.” He was soon playing trombone alongside the likes of Dexter Gordon and Eric Dolphy, and started to appreciate the importance</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> of togetherness and the rôle of culture in social advancement. “It had to do w</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ith a feeli</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ng and a hookup to creativit</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">y and understanding,” continued Horace, “and how people can come together r</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">egardless of what’s happening around them.” These creative interactions opened up a whole world of collaboration and cooperation to the inquisitive Young musician, who would use these experiences as the foundation for his own jazz collective.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnQas0PtKSs_bs-12CD3dh597O1uJBniFoKHptpziIGz4xBheFBiNiDTlEhamPhuDSRtfqT-ntnzjRC8mHkHz2e7qo0GT6vgjDZEgqCPkQQA6JAlK09p1822MEejfwoF39GXxkaw/s1600-h/waxpoetics-1&2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 246px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnQas0PtKSs_bs-12CD3dh597O1uJBniFoKHptpziIGz4xBheFBiNiDTlEhamPhuDSRtfqT-ntnzjRC8mHkHz2e7qo0GT6vgjDZEgqCPkQQA6JAlK09p1822MEejfwoF39GXxkaw/s320/waxpoetics-1&2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441486634999786482" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />After a stint in the Air Force in the mid-‘50s, which, he recalled, “got me ready to come out into the </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">world,” Horace</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> went on tour with Lionel Hampto</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">n, switching to the piano and eventually becoming disillusioned with the showmanship</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> of the band. “I wanted to do something else,” he wrote in his autobiography. “I wanted my own thing; I wanted to drive it and help preserve the music.”</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Returning to South Central in the early ‘60s, Horace found an area blighted by years of neglect and direct racial attacks by Chief William H. Pa</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">rker’s LAPD. As social deprivation grew in relation to the “proactive policing” and what many saw as the deliberat</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">e destruction of the African American community, an alterative sup</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">port stru</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">cture was desp</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">erately needed. The Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra (also known as the Unde</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">rground Musicians Association or UGMA) was formed by Tapscott in 1961 under the maxim: “Our music is contributive rather than competitive.” Whether loading instruments onto</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> f</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">lat</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">bed trucks to play on</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> street corners, holding sessions at old folks’ homes, hospitals, and prisons, or teaching music and poetry in elementary schools, the Ark’s members set out on their mission to preserve the arts in the Black community by taking the music to the people.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The cultural and social experimentation of Tapscott’s radical arts group anticipated the later work of better-known jazz collectives like the St.</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Louis-based Black Artists Group and Chicago’s Association for the Advancement of</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Creativ</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">e Musicians, and matched the powerful collective energy of Sun Ra’s better-known Arkestra. “Of course I was aware of Sun Ra’s Arkestra, always respected what he was doing, and go</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">t my spelling of that word from him, but that was as far as the hookup went,” Tapscott recalle</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">d. “While he was thinking in terms of space, of an ark traveling through space, I was thinking in terms of a cultural safe house for the music.”</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Central to the growth of the Ark was its family ethos and reaching out to the children in order to continue the lineage. At the heart of the family was the o</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">rganization’s matriarch, Linda Hill, who not only helped balance some of the macho weight that was throw</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">n around but also provided the group</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">’s first home, which was celebrated by Horace in one of the Ark’s standards, “Lino’s Pad.” In Steve Isoardi’s</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> book <span style="font-style: italic;">The Dar</span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-style: italic;">k Tree</span>, another sister, trumpeter Danyel Romero, recalled the deep contribution </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Hill made to the Ark: “Linda was like a big flower… She was connected to the spirits or so</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">urces of the unseen world</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> that most of us were not dealing with.” While Linda certainly became</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> an im</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">portant figure for women in the organization, Elaine Brown, Black Panther activist and close friend of the bandleader, also found in Horace a man who was equally at home in women’s company. “He was the most non-egocentric man you could imagine and a real friend to us as women,” she says fondly. “He didn’t have that macho thing but was very protective and was a man in every sense of the word.”</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">While a family was most definitely being developed at Linda’s place, it was not one based on any traditional American model, with the mysticism and bohemian atmosphere enhanced by the constant use of herb. “We were just wil</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">d,” re</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">calls saxophonist Arthur Blythe. “It was like we were part of that hippie movement, but we were like Black hippies. It was experience with drugs, music, freedom.” Elai</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ne Brown certain</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ly c</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">oncurs with this image for the man who later became known as “the Phantom” because of his late-night drop-ins on friends. “Horace smoked weed all the time,” she laughs affectionately, “and I mean all the ti</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">me.”</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">By the mid-’60s, the Ark had become a powerful vessel, sending positive vibrations right across Sout Central L.A. In <span style="font-style: italic;">Songs of the Unsung</span>,</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Ta</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">pscott recalled how he sought out freethinking band members who might bring something new to the Ark: “I</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> started by looking for different kinds of personalities who were involved in the music. And every person I brought in was an outsider, so to speak.” One of those outsider</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">s was a young conguero named Taumbu, who rode with the Ark throughout the ’60s. “I </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">was living in Venice Beach when I was invited to the UGMA house,” Taumbu recalls. “It was [a pla</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ce] for real resistance artists. At the time, I was a fugitive of the L.A. police. Also, I was ho</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">meless… It was about Blackness and Black music without compromise.”</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Alongside the dedication to the family was an even stronger commitment to defend the community at large. “It was a revolutionary period, an</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">d all the cats and chicks were revolutionaries in the true sense of the word,” Taumbu explains. Invoking the mantra of the great Fela Ransome-Kuti, the Arkestra trombonist Lester Robertson proclaimed, “This horn is a weapon, and I’m prepared to use it like that.”</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi84hTqGic0dumC1fyiY8sSsSCwQUEz1nhsEWKNZXLg-1OwzqVPYfAB3hfANnwgzotwZxV4mlduvGEB20H33pq_vpZkzK8ZkT8yT3TItLKDtzT-AbFLmTbbm8UuMvj_zeSfjv6IMw/s1600-h/waxpoetics-3&4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 242px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi84hTqGic0dumC1fyiY8sSsSCwQUEz1nhsEWKNZXLg-1OwzqVPYfAB3hfANnwgzotwZxV4mlduvGEB20H33pq_vpZkzK8ZkT8yT3TItLKDtzT-AbFLmTbbm8UuMvj_zeSfjv6IMw/s320/waxpoetics-3&4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441490191876992866" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />This was a time of some serious thinking in the Black community. “I Got exposed to Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm, and Dr. King,” H</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">orace told Steve Isoardi. “There were certain Black </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">m</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">en out there who seemed to be working for the betterment of the whole country. We were feeling that if we were together, we’d be an asset to</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> our environment.” In “dashikis” and them long naturals,” the group spoke to their</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> people with a stark, direct truth. “We were also talking against the things that were happening in the community, like police brutality,” continue Horace. “We were into that early… People weren’t used to standing up to the police and talking about respect.”</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The tensions that had been steadily building </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">reached a critical point in the hot summer of 1965. A Black man named Marquette Frye was taken into custody following a routine trafic offense. The riots that began on August 11 an</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">d lasted for six days claimed thirty-four lives as nearly four thousand people were arrested. On May 7, 1966, two cops shot and kil</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">led Leonard Deadwyler, an African American man rushing his pregnant wife t</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">o hospital. As mirrored in the Rodney King incident almost three decades later, the police were cleared of all charges.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The response from the Black</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> community was to get </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">organized, as music became a tool for change. “The [Arkestra] just happened to be hooked up with the revolutionaries, that’s just the way it was,” Tapscott Told Bob Ro</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">senbaum in </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">an interview. “There was Stokely Carmichael, Rap Brown, the cats, they’d come around and sit around while we’d rehearse and talk about the music.”</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Elaine Brown remembers how culture and politics w</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ere inseparable as resistance to the brutality grew: “We were just all there experiencing t</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">he same things; in it together with Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks. It was a moment of time where all the forces lined up for the oppressed; so we had no choice but to find each other. There was a tidal wave and you could either get in it and swim, or not, because e</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">veryone was caught up in <span style="font-style: italic;">something</span> if you were at Los Angeles at that time.”</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">After meeting Horace following her breakdown exte</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">nuated by wrongly prescribed drugs, Elaine Brown soon experienced the protective arm of the bandleader. “Horace</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> starting talking me home and making sure I wasn’t gonna get </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">killed</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">,” she says. “Watts, at that time, was a dangerous place with a whole lot of people with a lo</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">t of rage carrying guns. I was so out of it, I needed to be taken care of, and that became a big part of our relanti</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">onship.”</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The authorities were not oblivious to the power of music in the community, as Horace recalled to Michael Slate in an interview in 1996: “You know, the police blamed the Arkestra for the riots. See, in 1965, we were still on 103rd Street at his coffeehouse, a place called Watts Happening… We were out there rehearsing and playing and having classes. We had all kinds of people in these classes. We had people from th</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">e Panthers and from all these other kinds of groups… All these people came together when the music was being played.” This coffeehouse became the focal point for the Ark and the cul</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">tural re</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">naissance that followed the uprising. “All the artists got together, you’d talk abo</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ut the times, and there was lot of space for performance,” bassist Wilber Morris recalled to Isoardi. “All kinds of things: acting, dancing, a big stage for the big band. That was exciting… It was like things are getting better – revolution time.”</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The increasing attention of the authorities was evidence of the music’s</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> revolutionary power. “We got raided by the FBI one day,” Horace told Michael Slate. “We were rehearsing and we had thirty-five cats in the band. Upst</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">airs was </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Rap Brown and some of the cats from back East… At the rehearsals all the time we’d always see these cars on the corners following different cats.”</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Elaine Brown thinks Horace was drawn into the political fight as much by circumstance as design. “You’ve got to remember that the W</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">at</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ts uprisings were a direct response to the inequalities that Black suffered in America,” she says. “By the time Martin Luther King was killed, there were one hundred cities that exploded. So any kind of Black militancy or Black consciousness or anything that disturbed the status quo was being crushed. So Horace was certainly swept into the whole thing that the FBI was trying to destroy</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">.”</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2AEe6Hg72HkhPF7fI39xC4WNz-wPNZXLF_wh9pn0f9FvtqzEWdEWOXE98eiY_4HLXPy1YjKPJjFk-B90tOFzqUmUy3Q8DA5ZfHRQzzrCZRGDvJDGoPBnsIXJmoB3jPxswSz717w/s1600-h/waxpoetics-5&6.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 242px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2AEe6Hg72HkhPF7fI39xC4WNz-wPNZXLF_wh9pn0f9FvtqzEWdEWOXE98eiY_4HLXPy1YjKPJjFk-B90tOFzqUmUy3Q8DA5ZfHRQzzrCZRGDvJDGoPBnsIXJmoB3jPxswSz717w/s320/waxpoetics-5&6.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441486636534039074" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />While he was most definitely a part of the struggle, Papa, as Tapscott was affectionately known, was not a complete supporter</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> of the Panther’s revolutionary tactics. “Horace was always trying to impose with people not to be violent with each other,” says Brown. “He was very patient and always wanted to bring everyone together in a non-antagonist way. Even though we had differences, to have that kind of cool person in this rough area </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">meant he was very respected… He was able to show people that we had a greater interest in being united than begin divided and that we had to know who we were</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">. And music was his contribution in helping bring us together around something that </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">would build, and not destroy, community.”</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Horace Tapscott’s connection to the Black Panthers, in the eyes of the authorities, was sealed by a collaboration with Brown, who, as well as being</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> a party activist, was an aspiring singer whom Horace had helped nurture. <span style="font-style: italic;">Seize the Time</span>, the 1969 LP the two friends recorded together with members of the Ark, was a powerful cry for liberty and, according to the newspaper the <span style="font-style: italic;">Black Panther</span>, contained “the first songs of the American revolution.” Elaine Brown recalls how the recording came about: “John Higgins and Bunchy Carter were killed at UCLA, and I was there. It was very traumatic, and </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I wrote a song about it. Then I sang at the funeral of Bunchy Carter, and the hea</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">d of the party, David Hilliard, came down and said he wanted to hear my songs. So we went off and got a piano, and he liked one of them in particular, [‘The Meeting’] and said, ‘That’s</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> gonna be the Black Parter Party national anthem.’ So next thing I knew, he wa saying I had to make an album.”</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The recording session for this heavyweight LP were closely monitored. “It was a really rough time,” remembers Brown. “The police would com</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">e outside the studio, and they would stop people; it was horrible. Because they didn’t want this album made. But Horace was totally unmoved by this. Whereas some people would have b</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">een full of bravado, he woul</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">d just focus on the music.”</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">While music became a healing force in the community, others looked back to similary deep-rooted ancestral traditions. “We had a lot of spoken word,” Tapscott told Isoardi. “People would come in and talk about how they felt about getting beat up by the police that week. They would talk about what happe</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ned and how it happened.”</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The Watts Writers Workshop was the b</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">rainchild of screenwriter Budd Schulberg, who wanted to create a forum from where out of “hopelessness might rise a Black phoenix.” By the mid –’60s, acclaimed writers like Stanley Crouch and Quincy Troupe were regulars at the workshop, as was Ojenke, one of the first poets to join the UGMA.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Like Tapscott, Anthony Hamilton had experi</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">enced the full force of Central Avenue before moving to Watts, where he took on the name Father Am</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">de. Becoming the assistant director of the workshop, he went on to form the mighty Watts Prophets (alongside Richard Dedeaux and Otis O’Solomon), whose contribution to the Black arts is often overlooked in favor of their East Coas</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">t counterparts, the Last Poets. Another key L.A. poet to rise out of this scene was Kamau Daáood, who explains how out of t</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">he workshop were born two related but distinct schools of spoken word: ”The writing of the Watts Prophets was more folk based and came out of the tradition of rhyming couplets and that kind of thing, which is why they became known as the godfathers of hip-hop. And then you had another style, which came out of jazz-based or sermonic traditions and improvisation, which was were Ojenke came in. But one thing that i</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">s also impo</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">rtant to remember is, you [had] all these cats down in Watts reading Dostoyevsky and Nietzsche, so you had that mixed up with all the militancy. So the movement was not only very oral, performance based, and radical, but also [deep] in terms of imagery and surrealism. It was very deep.”</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">While the Watts Happening Coffee House became a regular focus for the poets to join with the Ark in performance, Kamau Daáood’</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">s first experience of working wit</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">h Horace came at another important venue for the collective. “They </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">used to have regular festivals on Malcolm X’s birthday at a place called South Park,” he says. “Horace had heard my poetry, so he asked me to come onstage and read before this fourteen-piece orchestra with the horns playing John Coltrane’s ‘Equinox.’ To play in that Ark wa</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">s like havi</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ng the angels and the ancestors behind you. It was like being home, and you were in a place where you were supported and loved.”</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU8TACh45PUeghKuj1jBf2e5o7fimKRRn41BnfOjQPDIMYvrJqnzTF3ltsKyeFDPslVFP4tYKlkDURcxszhH2o2Gjnz9LnQ-gtbu9IPjUojBEuObRjbAy_TYgBQ9_7D_CIc_8slg/s1600-h/waxpoetics-7&8.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 242px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU8TACh45PUeghKuj1jBf2e5o7fimKRRn41BnfOjQPDIMYvrJqnzTF3ltsKyeFDPslVFP4tYKlkDURcxszhH2o2Gjnz9LnQ-gtbu9IPjUojBEuObRjbAy_TYgBQ9_7D_CIc_8slg/s320/waxpoetics-7&8.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441490195717609570" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">It is both a sign of the Ark’s fierce reputation </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">and Horace’s unwillingness to compromise that during one of their most serious periods they only recorded one album. The Horace Tapscott Quintet’s <span style="font-style: italic;">The Giant Is Awakened</span>, released on Flying Dutchman in 1969, was one of the most powerful releases on this label. Talking about the title track, which he wrote in </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">1964, he told Michael Slate: “‘The Giant Is Awakened’ was about the people here in this country, and how things was happening to Black folks in this country, and we had to wake up and start to protect and defend and push forward our beliefs and our thoughts and our dreams.” The album also included “The Dark Tree,” which had been part of the Ark’s set since the early ’60s. “Then you see them dancing down the street hummin’ to ‘Dark Tree’,” Horace recalled to Bob Rosenbaum about how durin</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">g the insurrections the song had become a rallying cry right across South Central. “It puts a lump in your thro</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">at. I mean, cats eleven to fifteen.”</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Despite critical acclaim, Horace was unhappy with the end result of <span style="font-style: italic;">Giant</span> after </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">being kept out of the final mixing process, and it was the nearest he would come to a major-label affiliation. The whole experience increased his mis</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">trust of an industry that would never fully embrace his genius. Unfortunately, unlike other collectives like Strata-East and Tribe, the Arkestra’s self-reliance did not expand to a record label. After years of neglect by the industry, however, the Arkestra was eventually taken under the wing of a six-foot, blue-eyed German American named Tom Albach, whose Nimbus label would release the group’s finest work. “When he came down into the ghetto, he came down there and said what he had to say, and got the respect of the cats,” Tapscott told Isoardi. “</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">So he’s got a niche in the Arkestra that no one White has ever had. He came and told his story, and he took care of a lot of the cats… He helped some cats get back on their feet, that kind of thing. And all those guys never forgot that, you know.”</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Despite the loss of longtime Ark members such as Arthur Blythe and Butch Morris, the mid-’70s saw the Ark reborn under the leadership of a heavy multi-reed player by the name of Jesse Sharps, who had first encountered the </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Arkestra at the Coffee House in 1966. Other long-standing members, such as bassist Roberto Miranda and alto saxophonist and future bandleader Michael Session, joined Sharps as the Arkestra reached one of its most creative periods. The late flautist Adele Sebastian explained how one of the Ark’s song</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">s, “Quagmire Mano at 5 AM”, captured both the mood of</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> their new home and the dedication to their art that Jesse Sharps’s discipline had instilled in the group. “I believe that song pretty much tells the story of what the ‘Quag’ was like around five o’clock in the morning,” Sebastian said. “You could find musicians somewhere in the house playing, blowing, letting it all out. And that was beautiful too.” Thankfully, Tom Albach was around to capture the creative energy of one</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> of jazz music’s great ensembles, releasing the albums <span style="font-style: italic;">The Call</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">Flight 17</span> in 1978.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">During this period, the Ark was tapping into a cultural force across the nation. “You had all these different movements of artists coming together to form collectives – from St. Louis to Chicago,” Kamau Daáood recalls. “So it was about artists of like minds involved in developing their art and, at the same time, having soc</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ial consciousness and a sense of responsability.”</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Throughout the ’70s, the Arkestra had played every last Sunday at the Immanuel United Church of Christ on the corner of Eighty-fifth and Holmes. The invite had come from Reverend Edgar Edwards, and the Arkestra was an </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">integral part of the church minister’s community outreach program. Recorded between February and June 1979, <span style="font-style: italic;">Live at I.U.C.C.</span> (including saxophonist Sabir Mateen’s killer spiritual jazz track “Village Dance”) is a heavy testament to the freedom and fire of those sessions.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The four Arkestra albums recorded for Nimbus were powerful ensemble works, with the collaborative spirit enhanced through the delegation of writing duties to members of the group. This freedom also led to Ark member</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">s branching out to record their own albums on Nimbus. Bassist Roberto Miranda recalls how Horace guided members to reach the peak of their creativity: “Horace was as much a music</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">al mentor as one can be when one leads by love and example. By that I mean, he let you know he loved and respected you, and he played at a very high artistic standard. He led and inspired in the same way. However, if one did not meet the artistic standard he set in his example, he did not discourage them. He</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> smiled that great smile of his and somehow let you know he believed that if you worked hard, you could do it.” Tapscott’s music had always reached beyond the African American jazz heritage to Latin, Caribbean, and African music, and that was certainly reflected in Nimbus releases of the period such as Miranda’s mighty Afro-Latin LP <span style="font-style: italic;">Raphael</span>.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLIj5Hla5LR5QqUTxHeHdOgr__tE_6-ZoSOD4DjCMyz_9sNUvsywP5j06FmFP9C4ClZ1fltfL8AdNcgtB-nSSv5R0rwhdKM5xFw4T9RECABcNKTv_QwtAl7WbS38gPL8ueQ1r2fg/s1600-h/waxpoetics-9&10.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 241px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLIj5Hla5LR5QqUTxHeHdOgr__tE_6-ZoSOD4DjCMyz_9sNUvsywP5j06FmFP9C4ClZ1fltfL8AdNcgtB-nSSv5R0rwhdKM5xFw4T9RECABcNKTv_QwtAl7WbS38gPL8ueQ1r2fg/s320/waxpoetics-9&10.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441486643666064498" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Another musician drawn to the collective, Lagos-raised percussionist Najite Agindotan felt the comparisons between Tapscott and another of his own great mentors. “He reminded me exactly of what Fela [Kuti] did,” he says in Isoardi’s book. Arriving in L.A., Najite found a city with a long heritage of community percussion playing stretching back to late ’60s when the drumming circles started in Venice Beach. A veteran of that scene and Ark member Conga Mike recalls what it was like to be creating the rhythmic foundations for the group: “It was a new experience for me, playing with all those horns. I dug it. Horace hardly ever gave me any specific direction except to keep playing. A lot of the tunes lent themselves to traditional conga rhythms; some didn’t. It was new for me, playing those tunes with more than one time signature, and those odd time signatures – 11/8</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> and 7/8 and 5/4. I figured out some cadences to play, and kept counting.”</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">While the ’80s were a relatively quiet period for the Ark, with a number of members passing on (most notably Adele Sebastian, whose death still hits members hard) and</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Reaganomics tearing at the social infrastructure, it proved a transitional time for Horace both personally and musically. Following a near-death aneurysm in 1978, he returned to be viewed by many as a different player capable of even deeper music. The solo piano albums he released for Nimbus entitled <span style="font-style: italic;">The Tapscott Sessions</span> captured a man at the height of his art and sit there alongside solo releases by piano legends such as Randy Weston and Abdullah Ibrahim. Future Arkestra singer and now member of Buil</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">d an Ark, Dwight Trible recalls catching one of these solo sessions. “I couldn’t believe what I was seeing and hearing,” he says. “It was so intense by the time he finished, I was exhausted. I had never seen anybody give that much of themselves.”</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The ongoing slashing of social support and the flooding of the area with crack cocaine to support the contra army in Nicaragua had left the Black neighborhoods of South Central blighted like never before, as gangs and the LAPD did their best to destroy the area. It would take the televised beating of Rodney King to reveal the truth about what had been happening for years, and to finally tip the commun</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ity over the edge. “We saw it comin</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">g,” explained Tapscott to Michael Slate about the 1992 uprisings. “Being here in the community, you saw it from the ground up and you saw where it was going. Eventually it boiled over. And I thought the same as I did in the Watts Rebellion. The reasons why it happened still haven’t been addressed correctly.”</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">As South Central burned, a creative haven to</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ok root around the Black arts enclave of Leimert Park, as young and old came together to make sense of the madness. “Lester Robertson, my dead partner, used to say, ‘First there’s shit and then there’s the flower. There’s concrete and then there is some grass growing out the concrete,’” explained Horace. “We at the point of how do we keep these things, hone these plants up to the point where they blossom into something out of this rock, out of this shit that we in. We in a lot of shit, we in a h</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ard place right now with our youngsters and our oldsters together.”</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The World Stage, set up by Kamau Daáood and veteran jazz drummer Billy Higgins, and Fifth Street Dick’s coffeehouse, the home of Vietnam vet and homeless jazz-and-c</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">offee-obsessive Richard Fulton, sat just a few doors east of Ben Caldwell’s KAOS Network, which became the breeding ground for the legendary Project Blowed sessions at the Good Life Cafe. It was only a matter of time before the jazz elders and the hip-hop generation found a common ground. Out of these sessions came the rap group Freestyle Fellowship, whom Horace would go on to both play with and record for. “It was like this,” says the group’s lyricist Aceyalone. “When the Good Life was going on, it began around </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">eight [and lasted] till ten, but then it starting flowing over until the early hours. And we would take our sessions over to Leimert Park and start jamming with the live bands, so there was a whole load of going back and forth.” One of the elders and now grandfather to Aceyalone’s daughter, Dwight Trible recalls the energy of the times. “It was so electric every night of the week,” he says. “I just loved to go and stand on the corner and breathe the air and see what beautiful surprise would be happening today, and also to stir up the water a bit myself to be a part of a family.” Helping make t</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">he links between the generations was Jamm Messenger Divine (JMD), who became something of a linchpin for the scene. “The natural connection came through jazz musicians around my way like JMD,” Aceyalone recalls. “He was one of the producers who put together the jazz and hip-hop.”</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Horace described the importance of these creative interactions to Michael Sl</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ate: “We bring all the guys together, all the age brackets and all the different kinds of people… And these Black, youngsters here have learned how to be together without killing each other or stabbing each other… The system says that’s not good. We don’t want you strong.”</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Kamau Daáood was another figure who had e</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">xperienced the reactions within the arts scene during both insurrections. “One of the things that connects what happened in ’65 and ’92 is that when people feel they are oppressed, and they rebel,” Daáood says. “After they go through those major explosions, they are wide open, and they need to express themselves. But more importantly, they need to listen to others and to try and make sense of the things arou</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">nd them. So it brought people out to talk to each other and made the community look at itself. And that had happened during both uprisings. So now in ’92, you had veterans of the previous time, in the midst of young folks experiencing that kind of situation for the first time in their lives. So with the World Stage and Fifth Street Dick’s and all these venues, you had this creative form of the exchange of ideas. It was pretty much the same thing really, the poets and the hip-hop guys, because they were both spokesmen and reporters for what was happening at the time. Soaking up and spitting out what was happening around them.”</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcwloZ63VAP1H3xVVHJWzFDLeUuPow9VBxqqF-L5rVc8T0X2YGF82w-t8Exjb_iCnS98tbCi2AgmurIAc7pCMGLR74LakLY93RqffId5cX3MsmQ2it6fPL9JUiDMV2VICSVnHFyg/s1600-h/waxpoetics11.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 130px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcwloZ63VAP1H3xVVHJWzFDLeUuPow9VBxqqF-L5rVc8T0X2YGF82w-t8Exjb_iCnS98tbCi2AgmurIAc7pCMGLR74LakLY93RqffId5cX3MsmQ2it6fPL9JUiDMV2VICSVnHFyg/s200/waxpoetics11.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441491169844665938" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">In a mirror of what happened thirty years before, the focus of the LAPD moved on to the arts. “I wasn’t surprised at all by the police invasion that night when they attacked Project Blowed,” explained Horace. “It told me and proved to me that the race was getting stronger, coming together stronger. You had all these youngsters on the corner rappin</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">g and talking the way they do. Fifty feet away from them was some older guys rapping and one hundred feet from them was some senior cats rapping. All these people out here together, the grandfathers and the grandsons.”</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Aceyalone speaks for the whole Good Life scene when he talks of the lineage he and his crew became part of. “Leimert Park has been falling into different meanings for different generations,” he says. “I think, for our generation, which was the first youthful generation to use Leimert Park and the jazz heritage as an example, we really embrace all that. So our generation knows the World Stage, it knows about Billy Higgins, Kamau Daáood, and of course, it knows about Horace Tapscott.”</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Back in the ’80s, Tapscott recalled what it meant to him to be working across the generation. “I wanted Black people to appreciate their contributions to the culture here. I mean people all over the world knew the contributions Black people made but the Black people here didn’t even know; it was kept hidden from them. Today I think these young rap artists go to know the contributions they make. It’s to the point today that these young rap artists look to cats like me, in my age bracket, to always remind them that rap is the grandson of the blues. The music started a long time ago. It began when we were first brought here and contributions have been added to the music ever since then.”</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Visit the corner of Los Angeles where Horace spread his community ethos during nearly forty years, and speak to anyone who met him, and you get an idea of both the power of the man and the loss to the community that his death in February 1999 brought. And looking back on what Horace set out to achieve, one can only feel a sense of the great debt that community owes to their Papa. “I had to get the truth told whether it was accepted or not,” Horace once said. “That was my life’s thing… It’s part of having a stake, making a contribution to this country. We came over here as slaves. We didn’t ask to come here but we here now and we made a contribution in spite of all this crud they put us under. We have to be proud of what we did, but we have to know what it was we did. It’s very important for me that our people, the young people, can dig themselves and the contributions they can make.”</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">For a man who touched so many in the community, it’s fitting that one of those he saved gives the most moving and concise summary of Horace Tapscott’s legacy. “First of all, he wrote extraordinary music in the tradition of Mozart and Ellington,” concludes Elaine Brown. “While his music has not been heard widely, when people are looking back at the history of jazz, he is in the pantheon of the greats as both a musician and composer, and that has to be recognized. He was a genius, in being able to get all those people together in the orchestra and to inspire all those great people. And then as a man, he was inspirational to a whole lot of people, including me. He was a facilitator who helped people find their way. Anyone who met Horace Tapscott has to say that they could do some stuff that would be good and meaningful to humanity. There was no way you could be around Horace and not be transformed into a better person.”</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Andy Thomas</span> is a London-based music writer currently working on his first book, <span style="font-style: italic;">T</span><span style="font-style: italic;">he Spirit’s in It</span>.<br /><br /><br /><br /></span></div>bertrandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04478921099297575752noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24009309.post-79193221545303202012010-02-14T23:14:00.001+01:002011-02-09T09:58:52.820+01:00Nimbus / U.G.M.A.A.gers / Horace Tapscott by Alexandre Pierrepont<span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:180%;" ><strong><br /></strong></span><div style="text-align: right; font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://bjazz.blogspot.com/2010/02/this-blog-which-has-been-started-in.html" target="blank"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">-> INDEX</span><br /></a></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:180%;" ><strong></strong></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">L’ARCHE DES MUSICIENS</span></span><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:180%;" >NIMBUS WEST et les U.G.M.A.A.GERS<br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >Article d’Alexandre Pierrepont publié dans ImproJazz, n° 83, en mars 2002</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">« Quand je donne à manger aux pauvres, on m’honore comme un Saint. Quand je demande pourquoi les pauvres n’ont rien à manger, on me taxe de communisme. »</span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Archevêque Helder Camara (Brésil)</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4fIF25PHB_01Qd-kUaO5GLGAzlkj8t_zNrKiPq7uNMJqI8X8YmXgCQJTu5SO3BEX1EkLQMp9JepxASFAlVfmUIKnliG5QkARcXyflKO9yctzf-_IoAD9SxC3E2pmD3KE9ndpUhQ/s1600-h/improjazz.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 141px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4fIF25PHB_01Qd-kUaO5GLGAzlkj8t_zNrKiPq7uNMJqI8X8YmXgCQJTu5SO3BEX1EkLQMp9JepxASFAlVfmUIKnliG5QkARcXyflKO9yctzf-_IoAD9SxC3E2pmD3KE9ndpUhQ/s200/improjazz.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439625190927240802" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">On ne s</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">aura jamais au juste ce qu’il faut pour faire un homme intègre, un bougre d’homme, loin du grenouillage et des certificats de complaisance, un homme qui ne se croit ni en marge de l’actualité, ni au-dessus de la mêlée, mais cherche « la réalité rugueuse à é</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">treindre ». Ces dernières années, tout a été entrepris pour nous pré</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">venir contre les dangers qu’il y avait à soutenir une cause (l’embrigadement à coup sûr, avec ça l’aveuglement et, pire que tout : passer pour un raseur), surtout quand cette cause valait la peine d’être défendue, surtout quand elle offrait aux êtres l’opportunité de faire cause commune. On a tant dénoncé à tort et à travers le manque de discernement et dépensé d’énergie pour nous convaincre que le moteur de l’action était dans la délégation de pouvoir et un certain détachement démocrate, avec scepticisme de bon aloi, qu’une nouvelle race d’esprits indifférents ou poseurs a fait son apparition et redéfini l’esprit du temps, pour la plus grande satisfaction de ceux qui vaquent encore à nos affaires. Ni les uns ni les autres ne prendront goût à la démarche de <span style="font-weight: bold;">Tom Albach</span>, trop entière, trop motivée, trop pénétrée de son sujet. Et celui-ci peste volontiers contre la veulerie de cette époque, la comptabilité des uns et le pharisaïsme des autres, jusque dans ses notes ou ses citations de poch</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ettes (dont celle reproduite en exergue). Il loue au contraire la moralité des musiciens parmi lesquels il vécut dans le Los Angeles de la fin des années 70 et du début des années 80, pour lesquels il se dévoua, produisant alors 28 disques qu’il réédite petit à petit en CD, agrémentés de nombreuses prises inédites. A l’époque, aucun de ces enregistrements ne trouva grâce devant ce</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">s Seigneuries du <span style="font-style: italic;">Los Angeles Times</span> (dont l’auguste Leonard Feather, qui n’écrivait rien tant qu’on n’implorait pas son appui), et Tom Albach – que l’on devine aussi enthousiaste qu’intransigeant – ne manque jamais une occasion de les étriller, eux et leurs semblables, ni de comparer la culture de masse du modèle américain aux vomitoires de l’Empire Romain. Aucun de ces musiciens, hormis peut-être Horace Tapscott parce qu’il était déjà fiché et qu’il avait des allures de meneur de bande, voire Sabir Mateen depuis qu’il s’est installé à New York, ne figure aux palmarès de fin d’année des académies du jazz académique : que Jesse Sharps n’apparaisse pas dans les grands lignages de saxophonistes baryton établis par ces nobles institutions montre bien qu’elles ne sont bonnes qu’à être jetées bas. Dans certains cas, les noms même de ces hommes et de ces femmes paraissent avoir été rêvés. Qu’il y ait eu un saxophoniste alto et flûtiste que ses amis appelaient Dadisi Komolafe ou un percussionniste connu sous le doux nom de Daa’Oud Woods, voilà qui ne surprendra personne, ne dérangera personne, n’intéressera (presque) personne.</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKySDOeLrxr4V5DNaNH-3ygWv1_NAoD-H81poTLFNbAa6RBXSOXWJkAFtlF8YRPsZ6pBOScNX7XxKFwG24lmeRluSlMv8Oqn1PdUajDUgmdl8DpdqCHO4xf2jfUmBWXLf4-j3P9A/s1600-h/improjazz1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 140px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKySDOeLrxr4V5DNaNH-3ygWv1_NAoD-H81poTLFNbAa6RBXSOXWJkAFtlF8YRPsZ6pBOScNX7XxKFwG24lmeRluSlMv8Oqn1PdUajDUgmdl8DpdqCHO4xf2jfUmBWXLf4-j3P9A/s200/improjazz1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439625363398594450" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Et pourtant. </span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Si nous ne voulons pas voir nos efforts pour défendre les </span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">musiciens vivants (en 2002, et vivants en 1949, vivants en 2051) à leur tour anéantis, avec pour seule consolation que nos hum</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">aines constructions sont bâties sur le sable, n’est-il pas temps de restaurer dans toute son ampleur l’action des hommes de cœur, d’ici ou d’ailleurs, d’aujourd’hui ou d’hier ? Et si la rupture est consommée entre les mondes où les êtres vivent et déploient leur musique, et la sphère commerciale, avec visa d’exploitation délivré par les grands médias, ne faut-il pas résolument se tourner vers d’autres formes d’organisations ? A l’archéologie du savoir, j’ajouterais bien la généalogie des passions ; et à ces sciences de l’Ymaginaire, j’ajouterais bien la vision des voyants.</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><br />Il faut dire que Tom Albach a su se rendre invisible. On perd et on retrouve sa trace, le domicile statutaire de sa petite entreprise passant de Las Vegas à Amsterdam, aujourd’hui Albuquerque au No</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">uveau Mexique, selon les aléas du métier, de la co</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">uverture sociale. Dix ans séparent ainsi le volume 8 des « Tapscott Sessions », publié tandis que Tom Albach vivait aux Pays-Bas, du volume 9 qui paraît aujourd’hui qu’il est de retour aux Etats-Unis. Et si la qualité des enregistrements peut, ici et là, laisser à désirer (on évitera de parler de transferts numérique et autres broutilles technologiques), sans doute y a-t-il à s’interroger sur les raisons économiques et sociales de l’inaccessibilité de meilleurs moyens de production. La musique est sauve, et c’est ce qui importe. Les noms rêvés des musiciens changent peut-être d’orthographe d’une pochette à l’autre. Sur « I Want Some Water » de Billie Harris, se baladent peut-être un solo de Tapscott, ainsi qu’un morceau du Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra tiré de la même séance qui a donné une partie de « Flight 17 »… La musique est sauve, et c’est ce qui importe.</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><br />La musique… En avant la musique. On est loin, très loin du compte et du West Coast. Oubliez le néo-bop et avant lui le hard-bop (s’il le faut, oubliez même le jazz). Oubliez avant et après. Imaginez ce que cette musique serait devenue si elle s’était développée à son rythme, sans tomber dans</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> le piège du « progrès » (du mieux-disant, du mieux-jouant, du mieux-mourant) et des « résistances au progrès » ; sans « révolutionnaires » pou</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">r hâter les choses parce que la pression des évènements était décidément trop forte, ou parce que notre société se tortille sur le mode de la surenchère permanente, et sans « conservateurs » pour prôner ensuite un juste retour aux sources. Cette musique serait aujourd’hui très proche de celle donnée alors en partage par les hommes et les femmes de Los Angeles. Si leur rapport au temps se manifeste par une flopée de reprises de créateurs dont la réputation n’était plus à faire dans les années 60, au moment au l’U.G.M.A.A. fut créé (au hasard de ces quelques disques : Duke Ellington et Billy Strayhorn, Thelonious Monk, Horace Silver, Benny Golson, Clifford Jordan, Mal Waldron, McCoy Tyner, John Coltrane…), les reprises ultérieures concernent toutes des compositions que se sont échangées les membres du collectif, prouvant ainsi qu’ils avaient réussi à instaurer et pérenniser leur propre extension d’une tradition commune. Avec ses musiciens météoriques (le pianiste Herbert Baker, mort à 17 ans, dont le Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra interprète deux morceaux ; la flûtiste Adele Sebastian, disparue à l’âge de 27 ans, à laquelle Horace Tapscott rend hommage en solo…) ; avec</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> ses musiciens bateleurs comme le saxophoniste ténor et soprano Billie Harris ou le pianiste Kaeef Ruzadun, sa sœur la chanteuse B.J. Shaleethia Crowley et leur Creative Arts Ensemble ; avec la fougue de ses francs-joueurs qui ont en commun de <span style="font-style: italic;">faire entendre leur voix </span>avec rage et allégresse.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb36Qb869fPgnzzc8ddS4rhVxXTiAz9rcfFBFsqsFpauvvmBztD_dBUVUQHbfedteqd3E0QDYDCwQfSJL7ACbc4OUbmHDepwZW1-etuFOHcMMNAv3PUYS-ogCqwrMTRSL__SYz2w/s1600-h/improjazz2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 139px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb36Qb869fPgnzzc8ddS4rhVxXTiAz9rcfFBFsqsFpauvvmBztD_dBUVUQHbfedteqd3E0QDYDCwQfSJL7ACbc4OUbmHDepwZW1-etuFOHcMMNAv3PUYS-ogCqwrMTRSL__SYz2w/s200/improjazz2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439625596523079874" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Car le Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, et en général toutes celles et ceux qui furent liés à l’Underground Musicians Association, fondée en 1961, vite devenue l’U.G.M.A.A. (Underground of God’s Musicians and Artists Ascension), n’intervenaient pas n’importe où. Devant l’hostilité du milieu ambiant des clubs et des salles de concert, ils portaient le message de la musique et de la vie créatives dans les longues maisons du peuple-panthère (au Malcolm X Center, sur Broadway) et dans les églises (notamment à la Immanuel United Church of Christ, qui se trouve à l’angle de la 85ème rue et de Holmes, et où certains prenaient leurs quartiers d’hiver), dans les écoles, les hôpitaux et dans la rue. Ils le faisaient monter des mêmes endroits, ripostaient avec les sons et les sens. Ces hommes et ces femmes, originaires pour la plupart de Watts et des quartiers noirs de Los Angeles, qui jouaient le plus souvent pour le seul plaisir de leurs gens, ne sont pas restés indifférents aux émeutes de 1965 ou de 1992. Quand les êtres se donnent les moyens de <span style="font-style: italic;">correspondre</span> à leur environnement et à leurs utopies, et quand nous nous donnons les moyens de les apercevoir dans le fatras de l’actualité, la musique en retour donne l’éveil.</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-style: italic;">En avant</span> la musique. Dans un premier temps, le curieux pourra toujours se reporter à la compilation « L.A.’s Unsung », qui lui permettra de goûter aux improvisations épicées de Jesse Sharps, Dadisi Komolafe ou Nate Morgan avec leurs propres groupes, et de sentir le vent tourner à l’écoute du nonnette de Roberto Miranda (contrebassiste qui aura joué avec tout ce que la Côte Ouest compte de musiciens à part : d’Arthur Blythe à Glenn Horiuchi et de John Carter et Bobby Bradford à James Newton…), où se profile une nouvelle génération d’improvisateurs à l’orée de leur carrière, tels Vinny Golia (au ténor !) et les frères Alex et Nels Cline. Sinon, Antonin Artaud, à distance, voudra bien nous servir de guide : « <span style="font-style: italic;">Il y a en outre le rythme large, concassé de la musique, une musique extrêmement appuyée, ânonnante et fragile, où l’on semble broyer les métaux les plus précieux, où se déchainent comme à l’état naturel des sources d’eau, des marches agrandies de kyrielles d’insectes à travers les plantes, où l’on croit voir capté le bruit même de la lumière, où les bruits des solitudes épaisses semblent se réduire en vols de cristaux, etc., etc. </span>».</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><br />« <span style="font-style: italic;">Le rythme large, concassé de la musique</span> » et le déchainement « <span style="font-style: italic;">des sources d’eau, des marches agrandies de kyrielles d’insectes à travers les plantes, où l’on croit voir capté le bruit même de la lumière, où les bruits des solitudes épaisses semblent se réduire en vols de cristaux </span>», ce serait cette folie des grandeurs libres, cette foultitude de flûte</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">s frétillantes et ces percussions qui bourgeonnent d’aise. Tous ces instruments subalternes se retrouvent au premier plan dans quasiment chaque formation issue de l’U.G.M.A.A., qu’elle qu’en soit la taille, Dadisi Komolafe et Billie Harris doublant souvent à la flûte, Kafi Larry Roberts, Adele sebastian et Aubrey Hart ventilant les touffeurs de l’Arkestra (jusqu’à 35 musiciens, danseurs, poètes, passants…). Ce dernier s’offre encore comme un présentoir à percussions incessantes : congas, bongos et marimbas entourent de tous leurs soins polyrythmiques et de leurs eaux bouillonnantes le ou les batteurs. Cette <span style="font-style: italic;">Afrike</span> imaginaire, qui n’est pas sans rappeler les grands rassemblements musicaux organisés par Sun Ra, Randy Weston ou Pharoah Sanders, ou encore les <span style="font-style: italic;">transports</span> de Papa Dee Allen et Charles Miller au sein de War dans les années 70, n’est ni géographique ni historique, ni terre à regagner ni identité à réintégrer, mais dimension parallèle et inaccessible aux wasps – Ymaginaire qui tend à devenir réel, cause commune.</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtI5ayqrEhP_obNbHaq9AFujZcmrOKO7zB7Jg7_KfMSLvrbZZyzJ6c81Oc4H72SEIJEqMyNqPi4jn4uY5Mw-a3mcDtXhDzDeKKEssW6hm91nX9wujkKizuP_yR4W-DS1wLm6Ntvw/s1600-h/improjazz3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 139px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtI5ayqrEhP_obNbHaq9AFujZcmrOKO7zB7Jg7_KfMSLvrbZZyzJ6c81Oc4H72SEIJEqMyNqPi4jn4uY5Mw-a3mcDtXhDzDeKKEssW6hm91nX9wujkKizuP_yR4W-DS1wLm6Ntvw/s200/improjazz3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439625840745499202" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Cette « <span style="font-style: italic;">musique extrêmement appuyée, ânonnante et fragile</span> », ce serait celle de ces groupes où se propage et s’impose la modalité en ses fastes, tons vifs sur sons vifs, thèmes-riffs et mélodies réitératives vrillant l’espace du libre jeu, avec pianos perforateurs (Linda Hill, David Tillman, Bobby West, Kaeef Ruzadun et surtout Nate Morgan : <span style="font-style: italic;">soul brothers and sisters</span> au beau fixe) et lignes de basse au crayon gras (au cours des fêtes bruyantes que donne le Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, ce sont jusqu’à trois contrebasses et un violoncelle qui se nouent en rubans de cordes et de velours). Cette jubilation orchestrale à laquelle tout le monde participe, conjuguée à la prolifération des flûtes et des percussions, ressemble à une pratique quotidienne autant que cérémonielle : <span style="font-style: italic;">communicative et dansante</span>, la musique doit s’emporter. Elle est l’arche d’alliance.</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><br />Cette musique « <span style="font-style: italic;">où l’on semble broyer les métaux les plus précieux</span> », ce serait enfin celle des grandes roues d’instruments à vent où les voix des hommes et des femmes s’éclaircissent jusqu’à l’incandescence, et parfois passent outre les instruments (Adele Sebastian ou Billie Harris, Lorelei ou B.J. Shaleethia Crowley). La fusion des métaux est alors comparable à celle des saxophones et des cuivres dans la forge de l’orchestre. Tel solo de sax (Jesse Sharps, Jiggs Wilbert Helmsley) ou de trombone (Lester Robertson, George Bohannon), parfaitement calibré, retrouvant ses réflexes mélodico-harmoniques et ses douze poids douze mesures, s’inventera un cheminement dans la haute futaie des métaux en fusion et des percussions en ébullition. Ou, de frissonnements en tressaillements et embardées, il tombera dans la cuve.</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><br />« <span style="font-style: italic;">etc., etc.</span> » : mais sans doute faut-il encore faire un sort particulier au Grand Ordonnateur, à l’Impérieux Inspirateur que fut Horace Tapscott, puisque, dans ses solos collectés d’année en année, au gré des situations les plus vraisemblables ou invraisemblables, dans l’armoire <span style="font-style: italic;">cosmique</span> des scènes <span style="font-style: italic;">nationales</span>, il tire son épingle du jeu de ses confrères gospelisants. Son langage toujours remarquablement articulé est d’une limpidité parfois insoutenable : le poli de chaque note est tel que la moindre accentuation révèle de lumineuses densités, que la moindre pointe de vitesse transforme le piano en rapace, avec ses lignes mélodiques rétractiles, qui rentrent et sortent férocement, qui font volte-face sur le clavier écarquillé. Enroulant ses dynamiques, il fait monter son piano-rapace comme une flèche, le fait descendre en piqué, partir en vol plané sur l’immense parvis de <span style="font-style: italic;">To The Great House</span>, en trio avec Fred Hopkins et Ben Riley. Avec eux, il tire un trait d’union majestueux entre les villes du jazz (Los Angeles – Chicago pour l’ancien contrebassiste d’Henry Threadgill – New York pour l’ancien batteur de Monk) et entre quelques hauts représentants de ses soi-disant tendances antagoniques. Entre toutes, Tapscott aura passé sa vie à imprimer un mouvement hélicoïdal, à passer ce mouvement comme une flamme sur la terre mille fois retournée de l’Amérique.</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><br />Aujourd’hui, sans qu’on sache très bien ce que sont devenus les musiciens du Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, des rappeurs poursuivent l’idéal de l’U.G.M.A.A., et Darryl Moore, alias JMD, le gendre d’Horace Tapscott, s’est même illustré dans des groupes comme Underground Railroad ou Freestyle Fellowship. Mais un producteur de la trempe de Tom Albach serait bien avisé de nous replonger dans la grande fraternité irrésistible de Los Angeles.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></div>bertrandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04478921099297575752noreply@blogger.com0