Horace Tapscott

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The Dark Tree 21:23 Tools
As A Child 07:04 Tools
Sketches Of Drunken Mary 11:16 Tools
Sandy And Niles 07:31 Tools
The Giant Is Awakened 00:00 Tools
Desert Fairy Princess 11:17 Tools
To The Great House 11:55 Tools
Oleo 08:05 Tools
Lullaby In Black 03:18 Tools
Lino's Pad 16:46 Tools
For Fats 00:00 Tools
Niger's Theme 13:53 Tools
One For Lately 10:24 Tools
A Dress For Renee 04:57 Tools
The Dark Tree 2 18:30 Tools
Thoughts Of Dar Es Salaam 06:49 Tools
Bavarian Mist 13:16 Tools
Bibi Mkuu: The Great Black Lady 05:32 Tools
Social Call 08:51 Tools
Speak No Evil 05:38 Tools
Nyja's Theme 19:44 Tools
Wiletta's Walk 09:06 Tools
The Goat and Ram Jam 08:54 Tools
Desert Fairy Princess (with the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra) 11:11 Tools
Calvary 09:22 Tools
Now's the Time 05:58 Tools
Peyote Song No. III 10:11 Tools
Sandy & Niles 04:43 Tools
Aiee! The Phantom 10:32 Tools
Ballad For Samuel 11:24 Tools
Inspiration of Silence 11:11 Tools
Spellbound 14:11 Tools
The Call 08:29 Tools
Round Midnight 08:59 Tools
Lately's solo 10:36 Tools
Hassan's Walk 15:26 Tools
Mothership 15:52 Tools
Nakatini Suite 09:07 Tools
Dem' Folks 19:26 Tools
Chico's Back In Town 08:06 Tools
macrame 20:37 Tools
Ruby, My Dear 10:20 Tools
Inception 29:19 Tools
Acirfa 06:20 Tools
Dial B For Barbra 09:34 Tools
Afro-Blue 05:59 Tools
Akirfa 09:28 Tools
if you could see me now 10:34 Tools
It Never Happened Before 05:12 Tools
Drunken Mary - Mary On Sunday 09:30 Tools
Fire Waltz 14:46 Tools
Quagmire Manor At Five A.M. 10:35 Tools
future sally's time 11:17 Tools
Drunken Mary/ Mary On Sunday 10:34 Tools
Fleurette Africaine 07:56 Tools
Nica's Dream 06:48 Tools
Searching 04:38 Tools
Raisha's New-Hip Dances 08:46 Tools
Fair-to-Middlin' 10:34 Tools
Crepuscule With Nellie 08:59 Tools
I Remember Clifford 09:20 Tools
Little Niles 12:31 Tools
Anwar 05:10 Tools
village dance 26:20 Tools
noissessprahs 16:26 Tools
Afternoon In Paris 07:35 Tools
Whisper Not 12:31 Tools
Miguel 08:30 Tools
Strollin' 06:48 Tools
Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise 10:49 Tools
Vigilance 03:56 Tools
First Love 12:15 Tools
Quagmire Manor At Five A.M 10:31 Tools
Sabroso 03:44 Tools
Love In Bloom 07:23 Tools
Upside Down 03:52 Tools
Dem,' Folks 17:36 Tools
Leland's Song 18:43 Tools
Lush Life 06:15 Tools
Roses In Bloom 06:17 Tools
Vox Populi 05:36 Tools
For Patrice 05:56 Tools
Maya And Me 15:51 Tools
Long Ago 05:59 Tools
A Call for All Demons 07:05 Tools
Besamé Mucho 06:49 Tools
Getting Ready 03:50 Tools
Dial 'B' For Barbra 09:32 Tools
l.t.t. 14:55 Tools
Full House 06:31 Tools
Straight Street 05:52 Tools
Close To Freedom 05:28 Tools
Horacio 06:10 Tools
Flight 17 16:00 Tools
St. Michael 22:13 Tools
Breeze 03:21 Tools
This Is for Kenny 09:31 Tools
Faith 06:49 Tools
lift every voice 02:05 Tools
Wistful Vista 04:35 Tools
Songs Of The Unsung 01:22 Tools
Song Of The Unsung 01:22 Tools
Yesterday's sunset 08:48 Tools
Stella By Starlight 21:48 Tools
Blue Essence 03:45 Tools
Raisha's New Hip Dance 08:48 Tools
Coltrane Medley 08:01 Tools
Something For Kenny 05:32 Tools
Jenny's Spirit's Waltz 06:30 Tools
Ruby My Dear 10:22 Tools
Bakai 05:32 Tools
Village Dance Revisited 10:59 Tools
In Times Like These 05:32 Tools
Clarisse 06:30 Tools
Mary On Sunday 03:00 Tools
Maui 08:08 Tools
This Is For Benny 05:05 Tools
Mother Ship 06:28 Tools
Speedy Mike 06:28 Tools
McKowsky's First Fifth 06:28 Tools
Dark Tree 06:30 Tools
Haunted 03:59 Tools
Alone Together 02:58 Tools
J.O.B. 05:05 Tools
Blues For Dee II 05:05 Tools
Desert Fairy Princess (feat. The Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra) 05:06 Tools
Dee Bee's Dance 06:28 Tools
Dandy & Niles 03:00 Tools
Socail Call 06:30 Tools
The Hero's Last Dance 04:30 Tools
Whit 03:59 Tools
The Dark Tree - Live 05:06 Tools
Autumn Colours 10:39 Tools
Peyote Song No.III 11:06 Tools
Mavi 08:08 Tools
Bibi Mkuu The Great Black Lady 11:06 Tools
As of Yet 07:28 Tools
Shades of Soweto 05:42 Tools
Forgiving 05:40 Tools
First Call of the Humming Bird 03:59 Tools
Toward the Sunset 05:06 Tools
Clarrise 03:59 Tools
Avant Garde (+) 05:06 Tools
Dem, Folks 02:58 Tools
Peyote Song #3 03:59 Tools
Sketches of Drunken Mary - Live 05:06 Tools
Peyote Song No. 3 02:58 Tools
The Dark Tree (feat. John Carter, Cecil McBee & Andrew Cyrille) 02:58 Tools
The Dark Tree (Live) 05:06 Tools
Milestones 10:39 Tools
'Desert Fairy Princess' (Nimbus) 05:06 Tools
So What 05:06 Tools
Raisha's New-Hip Dance 05:06 Tools
Lino's Pad (feat. John Carter, Cecil McBee & Andrew Cyrille) 05:06 Tools
In The Vineyard (+) 05:06 Tools
The Black Apostles 05:06 Tools
Dial 'B' For Barbara 05:06 Tools
Caravan 05:06 Tools
Dem Folk 05:06 Tools
Little Africa 05:06 Tools
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Horace Elva Tapscott (April 6, 1934 – February 27, 1999) was an American jazz pianist and composer. He formed the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra (also known as P.A.P.A., or The Ark) in 1961 and led the ensemble through the 1990s. Tapscott was born in Houston, Texas, and moved to Los Angeles, California, at the age of nine. By this time he had begun to study piano and trombone. He played with Frank Morgan, Don Cherry, and Billy Higgins as a teenager. After service in the Air Force in Wyoming, he returned to Los Angeles and played trombone with various bands, notably Lionel Hampton (1959–61). Soon after, though, he quit playing trombone and focused on piano. In 1961 Tapscott formed the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, with the aim of preserving, developing and performing African-American music. As his vision grew, this became just one part of a larger organization in 1963, the Underground Musicians Association (UGMA), which later changed name to the Union of God's Musicians and Artists Ascension (UGMAA). Arthur Blythe, Stanley Crouch, Butch Morris, Wilber Morris, David Murray, Jimmy Woods, and Guido Sinclair all performed in Tapscott's Arkestra at one time or another. Tapscott and his work are the subjects of the UCLA Horace Tapscott Jazz Collection. Enthusiasts of his music formed two labels in the 1970s and 1980s, Interplay and Nimbus, for which he recorded. Discography As leader The Giant is Awakened (Flying Dutchman, 1969) - as Horace Tapscott Quintet Songs of the Unsung (Interplay, 1978) In New York (Interplay, 1979) Lighthouse 79, Vol. I, 1979 Lighthouse 79, Vol. II, 1979 Autumn Colors, 1980 At the Crossroads (with Everett Brown, Jr.), 1980 Dial 'B' for Barbra (Nimbus, 1981) - as Horace Tapscott Sextet Live At Lobero, Vol. I (with Roberto Miranda and Sonship), 1981 Live At Lobero, Vol. II (with Roberto Miranda and Sonship), 1981 Dissent or Descent (Nimbus, 1984 [1998]) The Dark Tree (HatArt, 1991) - originally released as two separate volumes and re-released as a double CD Arkestra Live in Chicago, 1993 Aiee! The Phantom (Arabesque, 1996) Among Friends, 1995 Thoughts of Dar es Salaam (Arabesque, 1997) With the Pan-Afrikan Peoples Arkestra The Call, 1978 Horace Tapscott with the Pan-Afrikan Peoples Arkestra - Live at I.U.C.C., 1979 Flight 17, 1997 As sideman With Lou Blackburn Jazz Frontier (Imperial, 1963) Two Note Samba (Imperial, 1963) Both titles compiled on The Complete Imperial Sessions (Blue Note, 2006) As composer and arranger With Sonny Criss Sonny's Dream (Birth of the New Cool) (Prestige, 1968) Crisscraft (Muse, 1975) - composer only Bibliography Dailey, Raleigh. "The Dark Tree: Jazz and the Community Arts in Los Angeles" (review). Notes Volume 63, Number 3, March 2007, pp. 632–634. Isoardi, Steven L. The Dark Tree: Jazz and the Community Arts in Los Angeles. April 2006. 394p. illus. index. University of California, $34.95 (0-520-24591-1). Isoardi, Steven L. Songs of the Unsung: The Musical and Social Journey of Horace Tapscott. Duke University Press, 2001. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.