The Dark Tree: Jazz and the Community Arts in Los Angeles
Steven L. Isoardi, "The Dark Tree: Jazz and the Community Arts in Los Angeles"
English | ISBN: 147802528X | 2023 | 456 pages | PDF | 8 MB
English | ISBN: 147802528X | 2023 | 456 pages | PDF | 8 MB
In the early 1960s, pianist Horace Tapscott gave up a successful career in Lionel Hampton’s band and returned to his home in Los Angeles to found the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, a community arts group that focused on providing community-oriented jazz and jazz training. Over the course of almost forty years, the Arkestra, together with the related Union of God’s Musicians and Artists Ascension collective, was at the forefront of the vital community-based arts movement in Black Los Angeles. Some three hundred artists—musicians, vocalists, poets, playwrights, painters, sculptors, and graphic artists—passed through these organizations, many ultimately remaining within the community and others moving on to achieve international fame. In
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