Title: The dark tree
Description: "While 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 group that focused on providing community-oriented jazz performance and training. Based primarily on one hundred in-depth interviews with current and former participants, The Dark Tree is the first history of the important and largely overlooked community arts movement of African American Los Angeles."--Jacket.
Subjects: African American jazz musicians, Artists and community, History and criticism, Jazz, Social aspects, Social aspects of Jazz, UGMAA, Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, Jazz, history and criticism, African american musicians, Music, social aspects
Places: California, Los Angeles