Results for "Dark Tree Records"

Legacies for Our Grandchildren: Live in Hollywood 1995

By Horace Tapscott

Label: Dark Tree Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Ballad for Deadwood Dick; Motherless Child; Breakfast at Bongo's; Close to Freedom; The Theme; Little Africa.

To Live and Breathe…

Label: Dark Tree Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: An Introduction To Bonsai Basics; Thoughts Within The Vineyard; Drumstart; Visit To The Mountains; Evanesce.

Karl Ackermann's Best Creative Music Albums Of 2022

by Karl Ackermann
December 15, 2022

For good, or bad, the “new normal" can finally be archived, and the club doors reopened to full rooms of unmasked patrons. 2022 marked an informal end to the Pandemic and a rebirth in live performing arts. Like similar periods in history, an unusual burst of creative energy followed isolation. Jazz was no exception; the resilience ...

Horace Tapscott Quintet: Legacies for Our Grandchildren: Live in Hollywood 1995

by Karl Ackermann
July 19, 2022

Since its founding in 2011, the French record label Dark Tree has been issuing a “Roots Series" documenting previously unreleased performances of the Los Angeles jazz avant-garde from the 1970s through the '90s. Among the best of those releases have been several from Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra led by pianist/composer/conductor Horace Tapscott. Legacies for Our Grandchildren: ...

Vinny Golia / Bernard Santacruz / Cristiano Calcagnile: To Live and Breathe…

by Mark Corroto
July 8, 2022

None of the three musicians heard on To Live and Breathe... had ever performed together before this set of live music recorded in Piacenza, Italy, on Sunday, February 5, 2017. Would they gel? Could they come together in the land of free improvised music? The most recognizable name here is American multi—instrumentalist Vinny Golia with a ...

Live at the Bing Theater; Los Angeles, 1985

By Roberto Miranda

Label: Dark Tree Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Platform for Freedom; Faith; Agony in the Garden; Prayer #1; Deborah Tasmin; Improvised Bass Solo 5/25/85; Dance of Blessing, Happiness & Peace.

Roberto Miranda's Home Music Ensemble: Live at the Bing Theater; Los Angeles, 1985

by Karl Ackermann
March 18, 2021

Roberto Miranda has appeared on almost one-hundred albums but has been lightly recorded as a leader, and inexplicably struggled to generate interest among labels. Dark Tree Records has released some great Horace Tapscott performances from the '70s and '80s. The label resurrected a Miranda-led session on Live at the Bing Theater; Los Angeles, 1985. Recorded at ...

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.

Horace Tapscott with the Pan Afrikan People’s Arkestra: Ancestral Echoes – The Covina Sessions, 1976

by Karl Ackermann
August 1, 2020

When pianist/composer/conductor Horace Tapscott founded the Pan Afrikan People's Arkestra (PAPA) in 1961, it was by design a support collective for all arts, bringing pride to the black community, specifically that of South-Central Los Angeles. PAPA signified social activism, teaching empowerment, and advocating Tapscott's belief that channeling African ancestral roots was a key to succeeding. Tapscott, ...

Why Don't You Listen? - Live at LACMA, 1998

By Horace Tapscott

Label: Dark Tree Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: aiee! The Phantom; Caravan; Fela Fela; Why Don't You Listen?; Little Africa.