The Dark Tree – Jazz and the Community Arts in Los Angeles Isoardi Paperback

Name: The Dark Tree – Jazz and the Community Arts in Los Angeles Isoardi Paperback
Brand: Duke University Press

Duke University Press

The Dark TreeJazz and the Community Arts in Los Angeles\nAuthor(s): Steven L. Isoardi\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Duke University Press, United States\nImprint: Duke University Press\nISBN-13: 9781478025283, 978-1478025283\nSynopsis\nIn the early 1960s, pianist Horace Tapscott gave up a successful career in Lionel Hamptons band and returned to his home in Los Angeles to found the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, a community arts group that focused on providing community-oriented jazz and jazz training. Over the course of almost forty years, the Arkestra, together with the related Union of Gods Musicians and Artists Ascension collective, was at the forefront of the vital community-based arts movement in Black Los Angeles. Some three hundred artists-musicians, vocalists, poets, playwrights, painters, sculptors, and graphic artists-passed through these organizations, many ultimately remaining within the community and others moving on to achieve international fame. In The Dark Tree, Stev.