Thoughts

Horace Tapscott - Thoughts of Dar es Salaam
EAC+LOG+CUE | APE: 348 MB | Artwork: 24 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Arabesque Recordings # AJ0128 | Country/Year: US 1997
Genre: Jazz | Style: Contemporary Jazz, Post Bop

"The final album by West Coast pianist and composer Horace Tapscott is one of sublime gentility, reaching harmonic elegance and meditative grace. Accompanied by Billy Hart on drums and bassist Ray Drummond, Tapscott moves through five compositions by others (…) and adds four of his own to a set that is unusually devoid of odd time signatures and floating rhythmic techniques. (…) If Tapscott would have had more time, there is no telling where he would have gone. Maybe he would have stayed in the same place he'd stayed for 30 years, helping out younger musicians from L.A. But with playing and composition like this, rattling the cage of the neo-trad punks, it's hard to believe they could have overlooked him forever.