Horace Tapscott
The Tapscott Sessions Vol. 6
LabelNimbus West RecordsGenreJazz & Improvisation
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October in Los Angeles. Horace Tapscott sits down, plays for 38 minutes, gets up. No audience, no applause. Just Tom Albach and his tape machine. This is how monuments get built - one session at a time, one composition at a time, nobody watching. "Ancestral Echoes" opens - nearly thirteen minutes tracing lineages back through time, the piano as time machine. Then Roy Porter's "Jessica," a beautiful detour into someone else's melody, proof that Tapscott could interpret as powerfully as he composed. Side B: "Restless Nights" - the title says it all. "Chartreuse Blues" - not blue, not green, somewhere in between. "The Golden Pearl" - brief, precious, hidden. And closing with "New Horizon" - four minutes of looking forward.
Sixth chapter in a series documenting Tapscott's own compositions alongside works by unknown Black composers in the Los Angeles area. Not a greatest hits. A working document. Music that wasn't meant to impress anyone - just to exist.
Format
This is the sixth in a series of piano recordings documenting the work of Horace Tapscott and other unknown black composers in the Los Angeles area, with an occasional standard appearing.
Recorded October 1983.
A1 and B1 to B3 published by Tapal Music, BMI
A2 published by Ro-Jes Music, ASCAP
B4 published by Fast T.C.B. Music, ASCAP
First label cat. Nr on back cover and center labels, second on front cover.
Release notes
This is the sixth in a series of piano recordings documenting the work of Horace Tapscott and other unknown black composers in the Los Angeles area, with an occasional standard appearing. Recorded October 1983. A1 and B1 to B3 published by Tapal Music, BMI A2 published by Ro-Jes Music, ASCAP B4 published by Fast T.C.B. Music, ASCAP First label cat. Nr on back cover and center labels, second on front cover.
| A1 | Ancestral Echoes | 12:54 | |
| A2 | Jessica | 6:21 | |
| B1 | Restless Nights | 5:50 | |
| B2 | Chartreuse Blues | 5:21 | |
| B3 | The Golden Pearl | 3:32 | |
| B4 | New Horizon | 4:24 |
- Dennis Moody
- Engineer
- JG
- Mastered By [Etched On Runout]
- Barbara Johansen
- Photography By
- Horace Tapscott
- Piano
- Tom Albach
- Producer
