★Nimbus West
The Call
**Original, still sealed copies of this rare album! Few available** A masterpiece from the Los Angeles jazz underground – Horace Tapscott’s burning, spiritualised 1978 set, The Call. One of the unsung giants of jazz music, the composer, bandleader, arranger, pianist and community activist Horace Tapscott was the undisputed keystone in the grassroots Los Angeles jazz scene. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, his radical community arts and music formations the UGMA (Underground Musicians Association,…
At The Crossroads
**Original, still sealed copies of this rare album! Few available** Likely one of the most underrated Nimbus albums. Horace Tapscott & Everett Brown Jr.'s piano and drums avant-guard jazz outing 'At The Crossroads'. Piano and Drums : raw, uncut, brilliant
The Creator's Musician
**1980 Album. Original copies** Beautiful, deep, meditative solo bass album . Roberto’s first LP on Nimbus. A beautiful record of upright bass solo work, ranging from emotive arco playing to nice throbbing pizzicato. Roberto Miguel Miranda has played with John Carter & Bobby Bradford and cut another great, more soulful side for Nimbus with a larger group of his own. The playing throughout is spacious, even it's most full moments never gets too busy, with a deep spiritual quality, clear through t…
Thomas Tedesco And Ocean
**1982 Album. Original copies** Guitarist Thomas Tedesco tearing it up in June of 1981… the personnel on this one is an all-star group featuring: Bobby Bradford , Roberto Miranda, Onaje Ferguson, and Sartuse
Phantasmagoria
**1984 Album. Original copies** Curtis Clark, Roberto Miranda, and Sonship Theus take you on an epic journey… an overlooked artist, Curtis Clark appearing here in his Nimbus debut.
Deep Sea River
**1985 Album. Original copies** Curtis Clark often overlooked beautiful solo piano LP, his 2nd release on Nimbus, featuring vocals by Marlene Holsey on the haunting title track.
Amsterdam Sunshine
**1984 Album Original copies** Curtis Clark’s 3rd Nimbus album was in retrospect a foreshadowing of things to come for Nimbus… Not only would Nimbus records relocate to Amsterdam within a few years of the release of this LP, but also this album features musicians that would form the heart of the Nimbus roster over the years to follow, with Ernst Reyseger on cello and Ernst Glerum on bass violin (see Amsterdam String Trio and TA releases). This is Tom Albach’s favorite Curtis Clark album.
Desert Fairy Princess
**2020 stock, rare 2nd ed. from Nimbus, last copies** Adele Sebastian was an Afro American jazz flutist and singer, active from the early 70s (when she was still a teenager) until her untimely death at the age of 27 (!) in 1983 from a kidney failure. In fact she had been depending on monthly dialysis to stay alive for years. She lived through and for the music and you can hear it on her only solo album “Desert Fairy Princess” which was first issued in 1981. The mostly acoustic instrumentation b…
The Tapscott Sessions Vol. 1 - 7
Last copies. Sealed dead-stock original copy of the Horace Tapscott's 'The Tapscott Sessions' solo piano series, released on Nimbus West Records from 1982 to 1984. Horace Tapscott has been one of the top "unknown" jazz pianists in the Los Angeles area since the 1960s, recording far too few sessions which has led to him being continually overlooked by jazz fans from outside L.A. During 1982-84 he recorded seven solo piano albums for the tiny Nimbus label, playing unaccompanied solos, his improvi…
Live at Lobero
"This is a reissue of a now out-of-print album from live trio date by the legendary LA-based pianist, composer and multi-bandleader, Horace Tapscott. Pianist Horace Tapscott is always at his best when he is leading a trio. Sketches of Drunken Mary features some sparkling piano revolving around a most lyrical bass part that is absolutely touching. The piece ends with a long, monstrous drum solo has to be heard to be believed. I recall hearing/seeing the mighty Sonship with John McLaughlin's One T…