Genre: Jazz
Size: 12"
Format: 33RPM,

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The Horace Tapscott Quintet The Giant Is Awakened LP (Neon Green Vinyl)

The Horace Tapscott Quintet

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SKU:
RGMLP1012
UPC:
848064010128

First Ever LP Reissue!
Pressed On Neon Green Vinyl - Limited To 1000 Copies!

The title of Horace Tapscott's debut release is apt, if not self-referential, for indeed a giant of West Coast jazz had awakened with this, the pianist/composer/bandleader's 1969 album for the Flying Dutchman label.

Tapscott went on to form two groups crucial to the flowering of modern jazz in the Los Angeles area, the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra (or P.A.P.A.; the name is an homage to Tapscott's predecessor and peer, Sun Ra), which eventually became part of a larger umbrella organization, Union of God's Musicians and Artists Ascension (UGMAA). Out of UGMAA came a host of LA-bred musicians, singers, and poets, including Arthur Blythe (who goes by Black Arthur Blythe on this recording), Stanley Crouch (who wrote the original liner notes), David Murray, Butch Morris, Wilber Morris, Jimmy Woods, Nate Morgan, and Sinclair Greenwell, Jr. (a.k.a. Guido Sinclair). And anchoring it all was Tapscott himself; as Kamasi Washington, whose vision of a large, Los Angeles community-based ensemble echoes that of P.A.P.A. and UGMAA, said in 2015: "Horace is one of the most important figures in the foundation of music in L.A., from both a purely musically and socially conscious perspective."

Now, Real Gone Music is proud to present the first-ever LP reissue of The Giant Is Awakened (original copies go for hundreds of dollars), taken from high-resolution audio sources and complete with original gatefold artwork. Neon green vinyl pressing limited to 1000 copies...a foundational document of West Coast modern jazz!

Features

  • Limited Edition - 1000 copies
  • Neon Green Vinyl LP
  • First-ever LP reissue
  • Lacquers cut from high resolution audio sources
  • Original gatefold art featuring liner notes by Stanley Crouch
  • Released to honor Black History Month

Musicians

Horace Tapscott piano
Arthur Blythe alto saxophone
David Bryant bass
Walter Savage, Jr. bass
Everett Brown, Jr. drums

Selections

Side One:

  1. The Giant Is Awakened
  2. For Fats

Side Two:

  1. The Dark Tree
  2. Niger's Theme

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