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Jamaaladeen Tacuma · 1983 · first solo album by the Prime Time bassist

Context

Title track of Jamaaladeen Tacuma's first solo album, released in 1983 by Gramavision and recorded in Philadelphia between 1982 and 1983. Julius Hemphill is heard on alto and Olu Dara on cornet. Tacuma had become, in 1975, at age 19, the electric bassist of Ornette Coleman's Prime Time.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Harmolodic funk, Prime Time. Among the origins and influences of Harmolodic funk, Prime Time: Fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-funk, Free jazz.

Sources

• jazzmusicarchives.com
• EN: Jamaaladeen Tacuma

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