Horace Tapscott
The Tapscott Sessions Vol. 7
LabelNimbus West RecordsGenreJazz & Improvisation
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Geography lesson: "Riding the San Andreas" - living on a fault line, waiting for the shake. "Southwester Avenue Shuffle" - street-level LA, the neighborhood Tapscott never left. "On the Nile" - Africa, always Africa, even from a piano bench in South Central. Then the portraits: "Amanda's Tone Poem," "Sonnet of Butterfly McQueen" - dedicated to the actress who refused to play maids after Gone with the Wind, who said no when no was dangerous. "Yesterday's Dream" looks back. Thelonious Monk's "'Round Midnight" - the only standard in the set - looks everywhere at once.
Seventh installment in Tom Albach's documentation of Horace Tapscott and unknown Black composers from the Los Angeles area. February 1983: Reagan in the White House, crack hitting the streets, the Arkestra still rehearsing every week. Tapscott at the piano, mapping his world - fault lines, avenues, rivers, dreams, midnight.
Format
This is the seventh 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 February 1983.
" 'Round Midnight " published by Consolidated Music.
" On the Nile " published by Toll Tone Publishing, B.M.I.
All other compositions published by Tapal Music, B.M.I.
First label cat. Nr on back cover and labels, second on front cover.
Release notes
This is the seventh 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 February 1983. " 'Round Midnight " published by Consolidated Music. " On the Nile " published by Toll Tone Publishing, B.M.I. All other compositions published by Tapal Music, B.M.I. First label cat. Nr on back cover and labels, second on front cover.
| A1 | Riding The San Andreas | 7:38 | |
| A2 | Amanda's Tone Poem | 5:34 | |
| A3 | Southwestern Avenue Shuffle | 3:57 | |
| A4 | Yesterday's Dream | 4:10 | |
| B1 | 'Round Midnight | 8:08 | |
| B2 | On The Nile | 8:30 | |
| B3 | Sonnet Of Butterfly McQueen | 5:20 |
- Dennis Moody
- Engineer
- JG
- Mastered By [Etched On Runout]
- Barbara Johansen
- Photography By
- Horace Tapscott
- Piano
- Tom Albach
- Producer
