Horace Tapscott – The Giant is Awakened – Super limited Green vinyl

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Artist: Horace Tapscott |Label:Real Gone Music 1012|Format: LP |Genre: jazz| Vinylcondition: Mint | Jacket condition: Sealed

Horace Tapscott
The Giant is Awakened
Real Gone Music 1012 – limited edition neon green vinyl

The title of Horace Tapscotts debut release isapt, if not self-referential, for indeed a giant ofWest Coast jazz had awakened with this, the pianist/composer/bandleaders 1969 albumfor the Flying Dutchman label. Tapscott wenton to form two groups crucial to the floweringof modern jazz in the Los Angeles area, thePan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra (or P.A.P.A.; thename is an homage to Tapscotts predecessorand peer, Sun Ra), which eventually becamepart of a larger umbrella organization, Union of Gods Musicians and ArtistsAscension (UGMAA). Out of UGMAA came a host of LA-bred musicians, singers, and poets, including Arthur Blythe (who goes by Black Arthur Blythe on this recording), Stanley Crouch (who wrote the original liner notes), David Murray, Butch Morris, Wilber Morris, Jimmy Woods, Nate Morgan, and Sinclair Greenwell, Jr. (a.k.a. Guido Sinclair). And anchoring it all was Tapscott himself; as Kamasi Washington, whose vision of a large, Los Angeles community-based ensemble echoes that of P.A.P.A. and UGMAA, said in 2015: Horace is one of the most important figures in the foundation of music in L.A., from both a purely musically and socially conscious perspective. Now, Real Gone Music is proud to present the first-ever LP reissue ofThe Giant Is Awakened(original copies go for hundreds of dollars), taken from high-resolution audio sources and complete with original gatefold artwork. Neon green vinyl pressing limited to 1000 copies…a foundational document of West Coast modern jazzSongs are;
The Giant is Awakened
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