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Intervista inedita con Horace Tapscott
by AAJ Italy Staff
Quest'intervista inedita con Horace Tapscott risale al 28 giugno 1987, il giorno prima del concerto del suo gruppo al Teatro Romano di Verona nell'ambito di “Verona Jazz". Il pianista texano di nascita ma californiano d'adozione [per leggere un approfondimento sulla sua sua figura clicca qui], giungeva per la seconda ed ultima volta in Italia, dopo aver ...
Il gigante si è (ri)svegliato: vita e musica di Horace Tapscott
by AAJ Italy Staff
PrologoCapita spesso a chi scrive di jazz di cedere alla tentazione di ragionare per dischi. Coltrane, Miles, Monk, il periodo Impulse e quello Atlantic, il periodo Blue Note e quello Columbia, il pre-Bitches Brew e il post-Bitches Brew, il primo quintetto e il secondo quintetto, la svolta di Giant Steps e quella di Ascension: ...
Horace Tapscott: The Dark Tree
by AAJ Italy Staff
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 ...
The Dark Tree
Label: Hat Hut Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: CD1: The Dark Tree; Sketches Of Drunken Mary; Lino's Pad; One For Lately. CD2: Sandy And Niles; Bavarian Mist; The Dark Tree 2; A Dress For Renee; Nyja's Theme.
Dave Douglas' Tiny Bell Trio: Constellations
by Chris May
When hatOLOGY put it out back in summer 2009, pianist Horace Tapscott's mother lode of groove, The Dark Tree, originally released in 1991, looked like a serious contender for best reissue of the year. It's still a player--but so too is trumpeter Dave Douglas' Tiny Bell Trio's Constellations, which slips under the wire at the eleventh ...
Bobby Bradford: Self-Determination in the Great Basin
by Clifford Allen
Born in Cleveland, Mississippi in 1934 and raised between Dallas and Los Angeles, trumpeter Bobby Bradford began playing with Ornette Coleman in Los Angeles in the 1950s, and replaced Don Cherry in an unrecorded Coleman quartet during the early 1960s. However, the most significant partnership in Bradford's musical life was with the clarinetist and composer John ...
Horace Tapscott: The Dark Tree
by Troy Collins
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 ...
Lou Blackburn: The Complete Imperial Sessions
by Mike Neely
The Complete Imperial Sessions presents a tight West Coast band with a bluesy East Coast sound. There is the best of both worlds in this fine quintet with its well-balanced soloists and outstanding rhythm section. Blackburn is a sharp band leader whose sophistication is evident throughout these sessions; he brings to the table eleven original compositions ...
