Horace Tapscott · Spotify · Courtesy of Spotify
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Songs of the Unsung: The Musical and Social Journey of Horace Taspcott
- Songs of the unsung
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1934-04-06
- Active to
- 1999-02-27
free jazzjazz
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 10,963
- Total plays
- 82,308
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Horace Elva Tapscott (April 6, 1934 – February 27, 1999) was an American jazz pianist and composer. He formed the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra (also known as P.A.P.A., or The Ark) in 1961 and led the ensemble through the 1990s. Tapscott was born in Houston, Texas, and moved to Los Angeles, California, at the age of nine. By this time he had begun to study piano and trombone. He played with Frank Morgan, Don Cherry, and Billy Higgins as a teenager. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Horace+Tap
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Houston
- Place of death
- Los Angeles
- Occupation
- jazz musician
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- piano
- Image
- Horace Tapscott, 1986.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1934-04-06
- date of death
- 1999-02-27
- ethnic group
- African Americans
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