Geography lesson: "Riding the San Andreas" - living on a fault line, waiting for the shake. "Southwester Avenue Shuffle" - street-level LA, the neighborhood Tapscott never left. "On the Nile" - Africa, always Africa, even from a piano bench in South Central. Then the portraits: "Amanda's Tone Poem," "Sonnet of Butterfly McQueen" - dedicated to the actress who refused to play maids after Gone with the Wind, who said no when no was dangerous. "Yesterday's Dream" looks back. Thelonious Monk's "'Round Midnight" - the only standard in the set - looks everywhere at once.
Seventh installment in Tom Albach's documentation of Horace Tapscott and unknown Black composers from the Los Angeles area. February 1983: Reagan in the White House, crack hitting the streets, the Arkestra still rehearsing every week. Tapscott at the piano, mapping his world - fault lines, avenues, rivers, dreams, midnight.
