Who’s going to the shore this weekend??
Miss Audrey’s Human Connection Tailoring and Thrift Shop Presents Jamaaladeen Tacuma’s Philly Improv Society during a Black Music Month Pop Up concert Friday June 23rd 2023.
This special concert brings the community together to enjoy a creative and uplifting musical experience celebrating Black Music Month 2023 at one of Atlantic City’s most important historical landmarks.
Jamaaladeen Tacuma’s “Philly Improv Society” featuring award winning Experimental Vocalist, Sound Poet- Randi Pontoppidan from Copenhagen Denmark and Philadelphia Based guitarist Jeff Monjack and Jamaaladeen Tacuma on Bass Guitar
Miss Audrey’s Tailor & Thrift Shop 1641 Atlantic Ave, Atlantic City, NJ 08401
Concert takes place Friday June 23 2023 4:30 to 6pm
Historian, community organizer and civil rights activist Audrey Hart migrated from Hertford, England at the age of 21 and came to Margate, New Jersey as a nanny in the 1960’s.
Several years later she moved into the Atlantic City northside and married Richard “Skip” Anderson. Of this marriage they had three (3) sons; Omar, Abdullah, Tarik and an adopted son Lamar. Skip was a shoemaker and Audrey was a Master Tailor, they had their business at 17 N. Kentucky Avenue, which was the African Appearance Bazaar on Kentucky Avenue. From this business location they launched the Black Afros, who would lead the Civil Rights and Black Power Movement. The Afros worked to desegregate Atlantic City Schools, Fire Departments, Police Department, Coding, Licensing and Inspection, Atlantic City Beaches and Hotels, City Government and Politics and because of their efforts this helped to lay the way for the first (1st) Black Mayor of Atlantic City. Because of Audrey Harts commitment to the black community of Atlantic City the Black community gave her the honorary name of “Miss Audrey.” Over the last sixty (60) years Miss Audrey has collected the life stories, music and history of the Black Northside. The collection has been displayed in her tailoring and thrift shop located at 1641 Atlantic Avenue where people from all over the world have come and listened to her story and see her collection.
Jamaaladeen Tacuma, considered one of the world’s finest living bass players , leads The Philly Improv Society , a musical collective that is made up of Philly’s finest improvisational masters and the emerging generation of artists who embrace the tradition of improvised and creative music that was pioneered by African American musicians in Philadelphia. Tacuma (born 1956, Hempstead NY), is celebrated internationally for his creatively free and funky approach to the electric bass. At the age of 19 his innovative style caught Ornette Coleman's ear, and he became the first bassist in Coleman's electric band, Prime Time, touring and recording with the group. He went on to a successful solo career as band leader and producer of critically acclaimed albums Renaissance Man, Jukebox, Groove 2000, The Last Poets Transcending Toxic Times to name a few. Viewed as one of the most distinctive bassists of his generation, he is credited for redefining the potential of the instrument. Tacuma has since lent his bona fides as a low end force to the work of Pharoah Sanders and Grover Washington Jr, Jeff Beck, David Murray and The Last Poets. As his career evolved, Tacuma found himself right at home in music whether the genre be R&B, Soul, World Music, Classical, Hip-hop, Pop, Country, Experimental — or a collaboration with a symphony, Alpine brass band, Korean drum ensemble, or Moroccan Gnawa group. He has shared stages with Sting, Sheryl Crow, The Roots, Brad Paisley, Jeff Beck, Carlos Santana, Peter Murphy, and Dave Matthews among others. Tacuma is a standing member of Super Soul Banned, a group assembled by Rolling Stone drummer Steve Jordan, rubbing shoulders with the glitterati at the annual Michael J. Fox's annual fundraiser for Parkinson's research. His song "Play the Bass Guitar" written for the Australian kid's TV show The Wiggles, won an Aria award nomination. Tacuma has been awarded The Pew Arts & Heritage, Marcus Garvey Foundation, The Uptown Theater Hall of Fame and The City of Philadelphia’s Benny Golson award with a Liberty Bell Proclamation one the cities highest honors, The Jazz Journalist Association Jazz Hero award and more.
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