{"product_id":"the-dark-tree-jazz-and-the-community-arts-in-los-angeles","title":"The Dark Tree: Jazz and the Community Arts in Los Angeles","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhile he was still in his twenties  Horace Tapscott gave up a successful career in Lionel Hamptons band and returned to his home in Los Angeles to found the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra  a community arts group that focused on providing affordable  community-oriented jazz and jazz training. Over the course of almost forty years  the Arkestra  together with the related Union of Gods Musicians and Artists Ascension (UGMAA) Foundation  were at the forefront of the vital community-based arts movements in black Los Angeles. Some three hundred artistsmusicians  vocalists  poets  playwrights  painters  sculptors  and graphic artistspassed through these organizations  many ultimately remaining within the community and others moving on to achieve international fame. Based primarily on one hundred in-depth interviews with current and former participants  The Dark Tree is the first history of the important and largely overlooked community arts movement of African American Los Angeles. Brought to life by the passionate voices of the men and women who worked to make the arts integral to everyday community life  this engrossing book completes the account began in the highly acclaimed Central Avenue Sounds  which documented the secular music history of the first half of the twentieth century and which the San Francisco Examiner called one of the best jazz books ever compiled.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44966658965557,"sku":"ByrdShop_0520245911","price":146.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780520245914.jpg?v=1770573332","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-dark-tree-jazz-and-the-community-arts-in-los-angeles","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}