Results for "Jesse Sharps"

Jesse Sharps

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

By Horace Tapscott

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.

Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra: 60 Years

by Chris May
June 2, 2023

The 2 x LP 60 Years celebrates the history of the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra (PAPA), which was founded by the pianist, composer and community activist Horace Tapscott in South Central Los Angeles in 1961, and directed by him until he passed in 1999. The release, albeit of archive material, also reminds us that the Arkestra ...

Ancestral Echoes – The Covina Sessions, 1976

By Horace Tapscott

Label: Dark Tree Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Ancestral Echoes; Sketches of Drunken Mary; Jo Annette; Eternal Egypt Suite.

Sharps and Flats

By Jesse Sharps

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.

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

by Rex Butters
April 19, 2005

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 ...