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The Last Poets With Jamaaladeen Tacuma’s Band Of Resistance at Marcus Garvey Park
Courtesy of Carolyn McClair | Posted on August 11, 2022
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Thu, August 18, 2022
6:00 pm
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The concert, in conjunction with Summerstage, Harlem Week and Jazzmobile, is a Harlem homecoming for The Last Poets, who were formed there in 1968. Their Afrocentric, Black Power-themed, groundbreaking albums, including Right On!, This is Madness, and their eponymously titled LP, were the building blocks of rap, from Public Enemy to KRS-One, and the spoken word phenomenon of the eighties and nineties ,including Russell Simmons Def Comedy Jam. The Philadelphia-born bassist Tacuma has been a pioneering artist since the seventies.
He’s worked with an impressive array of jazz luminaries including David Murray, Olu Dara, James “ Blood” Ulmer, and was a member of Ornette Coleman’s Prime Time ensemble. He has 20 recordings as a leader. ...