Jazz Articles about Horace Tapscott

About Horace Tapscott

Multiple Reviews

Horace Tapscott: The Tapscott Sessions, Volumes 1-8

by Frank Rubolino
October 1, 2014

Horace Tapscott began his musical career as a trombonist, and during the early part of the 1950s played in the Gerald Wilson big band. It wasn't until his US Army tour of duty in the late 1950s that he studied piano. He subsequently gave up the trombone due to an automobile accident while on tour with Lionel Hampton and settled in 1961 in Los Angeles to concentrate on piano. Tapscott came to an obscure form of prominence in that period ...

Album Review

Horace Tapscott: The Dark Tree

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 25, 2010

Quando The Dark Tree fu registrato, nell'89, Horace Tapscott non aveva mai pubblicato dischi per un'etichetta europea e da vent'anni non incideva con il clarinettista John Carter (come membri del progetto Bob Thiele Emergency i due avevano inciso nel '69, per la Flying Dutchman, Head Start un disco che voleva essere una sorta di bigino di storia del jazz). Texani di nascita (Tapscott nativo di Houston, e Carter di Fort Worth, come Ornette Coleman) e figli adottivi della stessa città ...

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Album Review

Horace Tapscott: The Dark Tree

Read "The Dark Tree" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins
September 10, 2009

Due to his limited exposure outside of his native Los Angeles, pianist Horace Tapscott was largely unnoticed by the mainstream jazz press throughout his lengthy career. A galvanizing force in the Los Angeles scene, Tapscott co-founded the Underground Musicians Association (UGMA), later known as the Union of God's Musicians and Artists Ascension (UGMAA) in 1961, which eventually lead to the formation of his Pan-African Peoples Arkestra. Beyond the valiant support of Nimbus Records, little documentation of Tapscott's oeuvre exists, other ...

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Album Review

Horace Tapscott: The Dark Tree

Read "The Dark Tree" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
August 17, 2009

The year of writing this review, 2019, is the thirtieth anniversary of the recording of The Dark Tree. It is also the twentieth anniversary of the passing of Horace Tapscott, a forgotten master of politically engaged African American spiritual jazz. The album, which is among Tapscott's finest, is crying out for a 2019 anniversary reissue. STOP PRESS 7/25/19: The album has just been reissued. Of course, to describe Tapscott as “forgotten" is only true of mainstream jazz history. ...