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Adele Sebastian

Adele Sebastian (1956-1983) was an American flutist and vocalist, born in Riverside, California into a musical family. She studied Theatre Arts and Pan-Afrikan Studies at Cal State LA, becoming a key member of Horace Tapscott's Pan-Afrikan Peoples Arkestra and the UGMAA collective. Her sole album as leader, Desert Fairy Princess (Nimbus West, 1981), is a cornerstone of West Coast spiritual jazz. She died of kidney failure at 27

Adele Sebastian (1956-1983) was an American flutist and vocalist, born in Riverside, California into a musical family. She studied Theatre Arts and Pan-Afrikan Studies at Cal State LA, becoming a key member of Horace Tapscott's Pan-Afrikan Peoples Arkestra and the UGMAA collective. Her sole album as leader, Desert Fairy Princess (Nimbus West, 1981), is a cornerstone of West Coast spiritual jazz. She died of kidney failure at 27

L.A.'s Unsung
Nine rare tracks from the Nimbus West archive, a map of Los Angeles underground jazz the world never heard enough of. Horace Tapscott, Nate Morgan, Jesse Sharps, Dadisi Komolafe, Roberto Miranda - the names that built UGMAA and the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, the movement that kept spiritual jazz alive in South Central for decades while the music industry looked elsewhere. "Desert Fairy Princess," "U.G.M.A.A Ger," "Prayer Of Happiness," "Mrafu," "Calvary" - titles evoking the Pan-African consc…
Desert Fairy Princess
There's a particular light in the music of Los Angeles's spiritual jazz community of the late 1970s - something warm, searching, unpretentious. Adele Sebastian's sole album as a leader catches that light perfectly. Recorded in 1981 and released on the legendary Nimbus West imprint, Desert Fairy Princess stands among the finest documents of West Coast creative music from the period. Sebastian was born in Riverside, California in 1956 into a musical family - her mother played piano with the Albert…
Live at I.U.C.C. 4/27/80 (2CD)
**333 copies, one-time pressing**  Volume 11. 2 disc set documenting the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra in concert at the Immanuel United Church of Christ - April 27, 1980. This is the eleventh and final concert that Tom Albach recorded at Immanuel United Church of Christ. Easily ranking as one of our favorite performances of the series, its also destined to be considered one of the greatest Arkestra live recordings, brimming with intense energy and culminating in the 1-2 punch of a blazing “Lelan…
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