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Wax Poetics, the inimitable bimonthly journal of old-school hiphop, funk, soul and more, has published an all-jazz issue well worth checking out. Highlights include articles on pianist and underground jazz/community activist Horace Tapscott, guitarist Melvin Sparks, and producers Richard Evans (the force behind many late-1960s Cadet releases, including Woody Herman’s Light My Fire), Creed Taylor (with a special emphasis on the CTI years), and Joel Dorn.
HatHut Records, the European label that some consider to be the modern Blue Note (er, wait a minute, Blue Note still exists…but as a very hip man once observed, things ain’t what they used to be) has posted some choice titles as forthcoming reissues–among them…
In 1961 pianist Horace Tapscott turned down a chance to have a high-profile career with the Lionel Hampton band and spent the next several decades in Los Angeles, leading community-jazz bands and doing his best to extend the mentoring and teaching tradition that he had experienced growing up during the glory days of L.A.’s Central Avenue era.
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Wax Poetics, the inimitable bimonthly journal of old-school hiphop, funk, soul and more, has published an all-jazz issue well worth checking out. Highlights include articles on pianist and underground jazz/community activist Horace Tapscott, guitarist Melvin Sparks, and producers Richard Evans (the force behind many late-1960s Cadet releases, including Woody Herman’s Light My Fire), Creed Taylor (with a special emphasis on the CTI years), and Joel Dorn.
