Results for "Michael Session"

Michael Session

Eric Reed Quartet, Pan African People's Arkestra and Pharoah Sanders / Joey DeFrancesco Tribute Band

by Chuck Koton
August 10, 2023

Eric Reed Quartet Sam FirstLos Angeles, CA June 9, 2023 This spring's weather was unseasonably cool, but the jazz scene has been hot in California! In June, master pianist Eric Reed brought his quartet, including tenor saxophonist Ralph Moore, bassist Mike Gurrola and drummer Reggie Quinerly to Sam First, a cozy ...

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 ...

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.

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: ...

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.

Michael Session Sextet Rocks LAACMA

by Rex Butters
September 10, 2005

An enthusiastic crowd filled the Los Angeles Times Central Court at LACMA to cheer on hometown heroes, The Michael Session Sextet. After more than a dozen years with the event it could be renamed Michael Session Court, and no one attending the Friday night weekend kickoff would have voted against a re-christening. Session remains a dominant ...