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Live at I.U.C.C. 11/26/1978

Label: Nimbus West
Released: 2023
Track listing: Jungle Juice, Ballad for Samuel, Lately's Solo, If You Could See Me Now, To the Great House, Lift Every Voice.

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Pan-Afrikan Peoples Arkestra: Live at I.U.C.C. 11/26/1978

Read "Live at I.U.C.C. 11/26/1978" reviewed by Danen Jobe


In November of 1978, Horace Tapscott had some advantages that any other iconoclastic, idealistic, idiosyncratic jazz bandleader would greatly desire. For one, he was approached by a socially minded professional gambler named Tom Albach about starting a label (Nimbus West) devoted to Tapscott's music, allowing complete creative control, never expecting to make a dime of profit, ...

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Journey Into Nigritia

Label: Nimbus West
Released: 2005
Track listing: Mrafu; Morning Prayer; Mother; Journey Into Nigritia; He Left Us a Song; Study in CT

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Sharps and Flats

Label: Nimbus West
Released: 2005
Track listing: The Goat and the Ramjam; Question; Macrame; Mike's Tune; As a Child; Carnival; McKowsky's First Fifth.

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Jesse Sharps and the Pan Afrikan People's Arkestra: Sharps and Flats

Read "Sharps and Flats" reviewed by Rex  Butters


Nimbus West reached into the vault for Sharps and Flats to pull out sessions by Pan Afrikan People's Arkestra leader, composer, and reedist Jesse Sharps. The program features six tracks with quintet recorded in '85, followed by a warm chunk of '79 PAPA playing a Sharps composition live. The music is rich and urbane, unafraid of ...

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Nate Morgan: Journey Into Nigritia

Read "Journey Into Nigritia" reviewed by Rex  Butters


At the dawn of the Reagan years, LA jazz pianist Nate Morgan recorded his first album for Nimbus West. Finally on CD, Journey Into Nigritia portrays an artist marked by the icons of his day, and striving for reinvention. Although he came from a solid jazz background, coming up through the Pan Afrikan People's Arkestra, Morgan ...


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