Those who've read Mike Davis's City of Quartz will recognize the name...

[alexlocascio at juno.com]

<Horace Tapscott, trombonist, pianist, composer, arranger, founder of the
Pan 
Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, and community activist died Sunday morning
February, 
28th only hours before a concert in tribute to his life was held that
afternoon 
at Washington High School in Los Angeles. Even though suffering from 
inoperable cancer Horace remained hopeful and in good spirits to the very
end. 
On Friday afternoon he told well wishers that he would be performing at
the 
tribute concert. Unfortunately that was not to be. 

The tribute concert performers included Pharoah Sanders, Dr. Art Davis,
Billy 
Higgins, Billy Childs, Teddy Edwards, Clora Bryant, George Bohannon,
Bobby 
Bradford, Roberto Miranda, Michael Sessions, the Watts Prophets, a trio
led by 
Horace's grandson teenage drummer Labell Tapscott, and the Pan Afrikan
Peoples 
Arkestra among many others. More than 800 people attended. The Los
Angeles 
Times, the area's only major newspaper, did not consider the tribute to
be of 
significant enough interest to its readers to cover the event. 
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