Horace Tapscott
Horace Tapscott was born in Houston, Texas, United States on April 6th, 1934 and is the Pianist. At the age of 64, Horace Tapscott biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Horace Elva Tapscott (April 6, 1934-February 27, 1999), an American jazz pianist and composer.
He founded the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra (also known as P.A.P.A. or The Ark) in 1961 and led the group through the 1990s.
Early life
Tapscott was born in Houston, Texas, and he moved to Los Angeles, California, at the age of nine. He had started studying piano and trombone by this time. As a child, he collaborated with Frank Morgan, Don Cherry, and Billy Higgins.
Later life and career
After being in Wyoming with the Air Force, he returned to Los Angeles and performed trombone with various bands, notably Lionel Hampton (1959–61). He stopped playing trombone and concentrated on piano and piano soon after.
Tapscott founded the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra in 1961 with the intention of preserving, producing, and performing African-American music. As his career developed, this became just one piece of a larger group formed in 1963, the Underground Musicians Association (UGMA), which later changed its name to Union of God's Musicians and Artists Ascension (UGMA). Arthur Blythe, Stanley Crouch, Butch Morris, Wilber Morris, William Morris, David Murray, Jimmy Woods, Nate Morgan, and Guido Sinclair all appeared in Tapscott's Arkestra at one time or another. The UCLA Horace Tapscott Jazz Collection features Tapscott and his work.
Enthusiasts of his music, who also produced Interplay and Nimbus in the 1970s and 1980s, both of which he appeared.