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Nate Morgan

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 ...

Secret People

Label: Out Of Your Head Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Choc(h)oyotes; Legitimate Perseverance; Peephole; Ascetic Dust; U; Swamp Gaze.

Secret People: Secret People

by John Sharpe
September 28, 2022

Even though he doesn't appear on the album, the music of Secret People has an affinity with the warped precision of keyboardist Matt Mitchell. Perhaps not surprising as drummer Kate Gentile forms one half of the duo Snark Horse with Mitchell, who also plays on guitarist Dustin Carlson's leadership debut Air Ceremony (OOYH, 2019), as does ...

Azar Lawrence Has Paid His Dues...Two times

by Chuck Koton
October 6, 2020

Tenor and soprano saxophonist Azar Lawrence has been one of the most dynamic and spiritually-charged reed players of the post-John Coltrane generation. Lawrence forged his sound in the fires of the Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner bands in the 1970s and, for nearly five decades, he has performed and recorded with the best musicians in the ...

Journey Into Nigritia

By Nate Morgan

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

Nate Morgan: Journey Into Nigritia

by Rex Butters
April 17, 2005

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 ...

Retribution, Reparation

By Nate Morgan

Label: MNÓAD
Released: 1984

Journey Into Nigritia

By Nate Morgan

Label: MNÓAD
Released: 1983