{"product_id":"horacetapscott-thecall","title":"Horace Tapscott - The Call","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e- A TAV Essential Listening Album -\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eAfter his stints playing with the likes of Don Cherry and Eric Dolphy -\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eHorace Tapscott envisioned turning the Los Angeles jazz scene into a nurturing community. To that end, he kickstarted a number of cooperatives, the most notable being the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra - a 16-piece big band that accommodated his creative impulses and his personal wish to create a brotherhood of African-American artists. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eNowhere did Tapscott’s musical and communal desires coalesce more beautifully than on this 1978 album originally released via Nimbus West Records. Filled with epic pieces that are at once experimental, spiritual and progressive - \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eThe Call\u003c\/i\u003e is an energetic and dense record that blazes with explosive chemistry and technical finesse. Interestingly, Tapscott himself doesn’t play here, preferring to conduct his Arkestra and showcase the impressive skills of his band members through his grand compositions. - \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/theanalogvault.mom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eThe Analog Vault\u003c\/a\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJust when the extensive and long overdue reissue programme of the music of Horace Tapscott looks set to have finished, more recordings come to light. As is the case with previous releases, these latest new old albums are superlative.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Los Angeles-based pianist-composer-activist kept faith in the big band aesthetic throughout the 1970s, a time when many orchestras were on the wane, and, more importantly, he developed a personal language for his 16-piece ensemble that combined his own vision as a composer and the skills of his bandmembers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn both\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Call\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eFlight 17,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eTapscott stays true to his modus operandi of epic pieces: sometimes with slow moving modal patterns that build on the timeless Trane\/Tyner foundation, sometimes with faster, hard-edged riffs that have a starkly dissonant quality that serves the rousingly aggressive if not confrontational ambiances created.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe heavy bottom end of the band – with a doubling up of drums and basses – as well as the chunky brass scores impart a statuesque character to Tapscott’s music, as if he were intent on embedding a whole landscape of sound into every performance. Drawing on anything from swing to avant-garde and African rhythms he loosely picks up from where Randy Weston left off with his landmark\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eUhuru Kwanza\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ealbum to create a style of his own. Among his skilled accompanists, the likes of flautist Linda Hill, vocalist–flautist Adele Sebastian and saxophonist Jesse Sharps all stand out; but Tapscott’s work is very much about the whole as well as the many very substantial parts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a glorious example of black culture as rousing community action, literally and figuratively. - \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.jazzwise.com\/review\/horace-tapscott-conducting-the-pan-afrikan-peoples-arkestra-the-call\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eJazzwise\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Rhq36BhcHW8?si=ObAq4Spd9Pawu7Ky\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hkFI6vW8jo0?si=b2D8HJz898yJ4odO\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ctable border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLabel: Nimbus West Records \/\/ Outernational Sounds\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue \u003cbr\u003eReissued: 2021 (Original: 1978)\u003cbr\u003eGenre: Jazz \u003cbr\u003eStyle: Orchestra, Free Jazz, Free Improvisation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Outernational Sounds","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41456850075806,"sku":"646274","price":45.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0584\/5434\/3838\/products\/86a9482f0d95072e7fbc5df84825d763d6f0e9e4.jpg?v=1646297692","url":"https:\/\/theanalogvault.mom\/products\/horacetapscott-thecall","provider":"The Analog Vault","version":"1.0","type":"link"}