''Thoughts of Dar es Salaam'' is an album by the American jazz pianist/composer

Horace Tapscott 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. Early lif ...

, recorded in 1996 and released on the

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Reception

The

AllMusic AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the databa ...

review by Thom Jurek stated: "The final album by West Coast pianist and composer Horace Tapscott is one of sublime gentility, reaching harmonic elegance and meditative grace".Jurek, T.,

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accessed February 5, 2015

Track listing

''All compositions by Horace Tapscott except as indicated'' # "As a Child" - 7:06 # "Bibi Mkuu: The Great Black Lady" (Alan Hines) - 5:34 # "Lullaby in Black" ( Thurman Green) - 3:19 # "Sandy and Niles" - 4:44 # "Wiletta's Walk" - 9:08 # "Social Call" (

Gigi Gryce Gigi Gryce (born George General Grice Jr.; November 28, 1925 – March 14, 1983), later Basheer Qusim, was an American jazz saxophonist, flautist, clarinetist, composer, arranger, and educator. While his performing career was relatively short, ...

) - 8:53 # " Oleo" ( Sonny Rollins) - 8:07 # "Thoughts of Dar Es Salaam" - 6:50 # "Now's the Time" (

Charlie Parker Charles Parker Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), nicknamed "Bird" or "Yardbird", was an American jazz saxophonist, band leader and composer. Parker was a highly influential soloist and leading figure in the development of bebop, a form ...

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Personnel

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keybo ...

* Ray Drummond - bass * Billy Hart - drums

References

{{Authority control Arabesque Records albums Horace Tapscott albums 1997 albums