Horace Tapscott was an American jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 pianist

Piano

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 and composer

Composer

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. He formed the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra (also known as P.A.P.A., or The Ark) in 1961 and led the ensemble through the 1990s. Arthur Blythe

Arthur Blythe

Arthur Blythe is an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer. His stylistic voice has a distinct vibrato and he plays within the post-bop subgenre of jazz.- Biography :...

, Stanley Crouch

Stanley Crouch

Stanley Crouch is an American music and cultural critic, syndicated columnist, and novelist, perhaps best known for his jazz criticism, and his novel Don't the Moon Look Lonesome?- Biography :...

, Butch Morris

Butch Morris

Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris is an American jazz cornetist, composer and conductor.-Biography:Before his musical career, Morris served in Vietnam during the Vietnam War....

, Wilber Morris

Wilber Morris

Wilber Morris was an American jazz double bass player and bandleader. He was the brother of the cornetist, composer, and conductor Butch Morris....

, David Murray

David Murray (jazz musician)

David Murray is an American jazz musician. Murray plays mainly tenor saxophone and sometimes bass clarinet. He has recorded prolifically for many record labels since the mid-1970s.-Biography:...

, and Jimmy Woods

Jimmy Woods

Jimmy Woods is an American jazz alto saxophonist.Woods played with the R&B band of Homer Carter in 1951, and served in the Air Force from 1952 to 1956. He played with Roy Milton after his discharge, and was with Horace Tapscott in 1960 and Joe Gordon in 1961...

 all performed in Tapscott's Arkestra at one time or another. Tapscott and his work are the subjects of the UCLA

University of California, Los Angeles

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Horace Tapscott Jazz Collection.

External links

• Horace Tapscott Collection. UCLA. Performing Arts Special Collections.
• Horace Tapscott site
• "A Fireside Chat With Horace Tapscott, by Fred Jung, from Jazz Weekly
• Listening In: An Interview with Horace Tapscott by Bob Rosenbaum, Los Angeles, October 1982 (PDF file)