Below you will find: the CDs which are available for sale and instructions on how to purchase them, a short review of the book "Songs of the Unsung" (autobiography) of Horace Tapscott, "Preservation of 40 years of Music" and the links to some of my favorite sites.
Lifelight Productions and Publications® has under its umbrella several impressive project groups which are available for immediate appointments. We also have for sale CDs from the group Fuasi & Ensemble as well as published compositions of manuscripts which are registered with us.
The list of available groups are:
Afro-Cubano Latin Jazz Connection
Ebony Big Band (Page under Construction)
School Workshop Project (Page under Construction)
Singers Project (Page under Construction)
The CDs which are available to you now are:
The CD prices are 15.00 Euro or equivalent in your local currency. Please add 4.00 Euro for shipping and handling within Europe and 8.00 Euro for all other countries. All orders are shipped immediately after they are received. Please allow 7 days within Europe and 12 days for all other countries.
All purchases are to be paid with an international money order.
Make money order payable to:
Fuasi Abdul-Khaliq
No personal checks please.
You can mail your order via postal mail to:
Lifelight Productions and Publications®C/O Fuasi Abdul-KhaliqGoltz Str. 32D-10781 Berlin, Germany
Links
U.G.M.A.A. (Union of God's Musicians and Artist Ascension)
African-American Literature Book Club
Mike Duchstein & Saxophone Service
Leimert Park-the story of a village in south central LA
News & Tips
We would like from time to time to bring to you news and articles about artists and events from around the world that we feel may be of interest to you. We also would like to share with you links of which we think you would be interested in knowing about because of their unique, artistic and/or educational contributions. We hope you find these sites and articles as interesting as we do. They will be updated regularly.
Book Review
Steven L. Isoardi
The Dark Tree
Jazz and the Community Arts in Los Angeles
A George Gund Foundation Book in African American Studies
With an Appendix by Roberto Miranda. Includes CD
Book Review
"Isoardi has done a wonderful job collecting oral histories and integrating them into an engaging, sophisticated, and highly readable book. He provides great insight into the artistic goals, political aspirations, internal conflicts, and social terrain that shaped the experiences of the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra. He shows us quite clearly that jazz musicians continued to work within and gain sustenance from working class black communities long after the moment when some observers deemed the music irrelevant to them."--Eric Porter, author of What Is This Thing Called Jazz?
"In these pages, Horace Tapscott says to the audience, 'This is one more you wrote through us.' And this is what Steve Isoardi has done here: given voice to the nearly lost history of a revolutionary community movement through its key players. Epic in scope, dazzling in detail and sensual as any Coltrane solo, this rare book--informative, intimate, lyrical, scholarly, nuanced, and essential--reads like no history book you've read before."--Chris Abani, author of GraceLand and Becoming Abigail"The Dark Tree is just wonderful. One cannot understand the history of black arts on the West Coast without a thorough assessment of this movement; Isoardi knows this history so well, and tells a much bigger story. The book does a fantastic job of capturing the nitty gritty nature of the music scene, and of resurrecting local figures in the Arkestra who have never gotten any press for their astounding musicianship. This is a remarkable book."--Robin Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination
"This is a revelatory document, virtuosically combining scholarship and oral history to connect the dots of African American music on the west coast. Far more than a mere historical "overdub" of an underdocumented scene, this book disrupts the mythic notions of jazz history, showing instead how music and community unfold as one. Both a celebratory and a cautionary tale, it also delivers some of the most frank and eye-opening musicians' accounts since Arthur Taylor's Notes and Tones."--Vijay Iyer, musician/composer, New York City
HORACE TAPSCOTTPRESERVATION OF 40 YEARS OF MUSIC
1960 ~ 1999
The UGMAA Foundation, The Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, and The Great Voice of UGMAA
SEEKING PRODUCERS, SPONSORS and PROMOTERS
for the reproduction of 40 years of documented reel to reel recordings to be transfer to CD recordings for musical preservation, and enjoyment!
"THE BRIGHT MOMENTS SERIES"
such as:
At Marla's Memory Lane - A two week series of recordings during the mid 80's featuring: Horace Tapscott, Charles Owens, Louis Spears, Sunship Thesus, Melvin Moore, Thurman Green, and many other featured guest appearances.
The Bing Concert - Early 60's tape recording at Los Angeles County Museum of Art featuring: Horace Tapscott, Arthur Blythe, Everett Brown Jr., David Bryant, The Ark and Linda Hill and the Voice of UGMAA.
The Catalina Club - Reel to reel recordings over a two decade period though the 1980's and 1990's featuring Horace Tapscott with over wide variety of musician who were associated with the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra and friends of Horace.
The South Park, Malcolm X, and John Coltrane Festivals - Recordings over the 1970's through 1980's series with the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra and The Great Voice of UGMAA.
I.U.C.C. - The nine year every last sunday of the month concerts at Immanuel United Church of Christ series featuring nearly every musician that ever performed with Horace Tapscott, The ARK and The Great Voice of UGMAA.
KUSC, WIDNEY H.S., FOSHAY H.S., CAL STATE COLLEGE, and many other educational institutions: featuring Horace Tapscott and a wide array of muscians, poets, and featured artist over a thirty year period (from 1960 thru 1990).
HORACE TAPSCOTT and THE WATTS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA - Compositional works by Mr. Tapscott featuring strings and symphonic orchestration to Ancestral Echos and more.
Please refer all communications to UGMAA FOUNDATION, INC., Mrs. Cecilia Tapscott CEO or Michael Dett Wilcots Executive Director 4901 ~ 11th Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90043 (213)294-0163 or email (michael.wilcots@dmjmharris.com)
