The Dark Tree: Jazz and the Community Arts in Los Angeles by Steve Isoardi
English | Apr 10, 2006 | ISBN: 0520245911 | 377 Pages | PDF | 3 MB
While he was still in his twenties, 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 affordable, 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 (UGMAA) Foundation, were at the forefront of the vital community-based arts movements in black Los Angeles.