This is a Rare Duo Performance by bassist Jamaaladeen Tacuma & pianist Marc Cary!
Artist, producer and bassist Jamaaladeen Tacuma has always stretched the mold of what and how a bassist is supposed to play and re-defined his instrument's artistic potential. In the 1970s, his creatively free approach to the bass caught the eye of saxophonist Ornette Coleman. Tacuma became a member of Coleman's Prime Time, touring and performing on some of Coleman's historic recordings: "Dancing In Your Head", "Body Meta", and "Of Human Feelings". Tacuma continued to press the musical envelope with his 1983 debut album "Showstopper". His latest historical recording “FOR THE LOVE OF ORNETTE” features Ornette Coleman and Bon Vivant with Free Form Funky Freq, a trio with Vernon Reid and G.Calvin Weston. He has worked with Jeff Beck, Carlos Santana, Marc Ribot, Derek Bailey, Pharoah Sanders, Grover Washington Jr., Peter Murphy, and The Roots. He has worked with orchestras led by Anthony Davis at Carnegie Hall....
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This is a Rare Duo Performance by bassist Jamaaladeen Tacuma & pianist Marc Cary!
Artist, producer and bassist Jamaaladeen Tacuma has always stretched the mold of what and how a bassist is supposed to play and re-defined his instrument's artistic potential. In the 1970s, his creatively free approach to the bass caught the eye of saxophonist Ornette Coleman. Tacuma became a member of Coleman's Prime Time, touring and performing on some of Coleman's historic recordings: "Dancing In Your Head", "Body Meta", and "Of Human Feelings". Tacuma continued to press the musical envelope with his 1983 debut album "Showstopper". His latest historical recording “FOR THE LOVE OF ORNETTE” features Ornette Coleman and Bon Vivant with Free Form Funky Freq, a trio with Vernon Reid and G.Calvin Weston. He has worked with Jeff Beck, Carlos Santana, Marc Ribot, Derek Bailey, Pharoah Sanders, Grover Washington Jr., Peter Murphy, and The Roots. He has worked with orchestras led by Anthony Davis at Carnegie Hall.
Tacuma was recognized for artistic excellence worldwide with the PARALLEL CULTURE AWARD 2009, Marcus Garvey Foundation 50th Anniversary Award 2011, The Pew Fellowship in the Arts 2011, and The Uptown Theater Hall of Fame Award. He received The MacDowell Colony, Headlands Center for the Arts and Civitella Ranieri residency fellowships. In 2017 he received The Club Club of Jazz Best Bassist Award. In 2018 he received the City of Philadelphia's Benny Golson Award, which includes a city proclamation, and the Liberty Bell Award — one of the highest honors from the City of Philadelphia. Since 2015 Jamaaladeen has presented the annual Outsiders Improvised & Creative Music Festival in Philadelphia and continues to tour, produce and record worldwide.
In a jazz world brimming with brilliant and adventurous pianists, Marc Cary stands apart by way of pedigree and design as one of New York’s best. The player-composer and improviser is a graduate of both Betty Carter and Abbey Lincoln’s daunting bandstand academies and DC's Duke Ellington School For The Arts. Taking on NYC at age 21, for the next decade of his life he shared stages and cultivated craft with Dizzy Gillespie, Arthur Taylor, Carlos Garnett, Jackie McLean, Wynton Marsalis and Carmen McRae.
Since 1995, Cary has released 13 albums under his direction. He leads three distinct ensembles: Focus Trio; his pan-ethnic collective Indigenous Peoples, and his Rhodes Ahead Series, which his current Motéma recording indexes as Volume 2. The first volume earned him the debut annual Billboard/BET ''Best New Jazz Artist'' award in 2000.
He is proficient at rewiring and reprogramming some sound gear. He says, ''Using analog synthesizers and effects pedals on the Fender Rhodes, I learned how to manipulate electricity and create musical sounds. I … build and transform these instruments into more useful tools for me. I learned how to create everything from microphones to midi controllers, and manipulate household electronics to become musical tools. All of this fascination has worked its way deep into my musical sound, even my acoustic works.''
Now we have current day collaborations with hallucinogenic hip hop producer Flying Lotus, Herbie Hancock and Lotus' uncle, Ravi Coltrane. That high-voltage jazz tradition is as core to the contemporary jazz esthetic as big-band swing and bop and its varied dialects. To the electronic jazz tradition Cary brings his own lyricism, warmth and warp-speed chops. He also heads jazz improvisation at Manhattan School of Music and The Juilliard School.
Streaming cost is $10
Donations are welcomed.
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