Jamaaladeen Tacuma

Jamaaladeen Tacuma ( born June 11, 1956 in Hempstead, New York Rudy McDaniel ) is an American jazz musician ( bass guitar, composer ).

Tacuma grew up in Philadelphia and played as a teenager with the organist Charles Earland. At the age of 19 he began to work with Ornette Coleman in its primetime lineup. He was of "Dancing In Your Head " (1976) about Of Human Feelings to In All Languages ​​( 1987), involved in all recordings of the group. Tacuma took several plates on under his own name, where, apart from Coleman et al Anthony Davis, Julius Hemphill Olu Dara or participated. He was also involved in various projects by Kip Hanrahan and constantly plays with Wolfgang puschnig ( eg Alpine Aspects ), but also in projects to Christy Doran, Fredy Studer and and Jan Kuiper. Unforgettable also his collaboration with James Blood Ulmer on the album Tales Of Captain Black. According to the All Music Guide heard the album Mirakle, can be heard on the Tacuma with drummer Calvin Weston and guitarist Derek Bailey, the " most important recordings of the year 2000 ( most important recordings of year 2000) ." In 2006 he worked with the World Saxophone Quartet together ( Political Blues ), with whom he appeared in 2009 in a Hendrix - program on the Frankfurt Jazz Festival.

Tacumas game is dominated by radio and by the harmolodischen view Colemans.

Discography

• Show Stopper (1982 )
• Renaissance Man ( 1983)
• So Tranquilizin ' (1984 )
• Music World (1986 )
• Jukebox (1987 )
• Boss of the Bass (1993 )
• Sound Symphony (1994)
• Night of Chamber Music (1994 )
• Gemini Gemini ( 1995)
• Journey into Gemini Territory (1996 )
• Dreamscape (1998)
• Meet the Panel Three: Live in Cologne ( 2000)
• For the Love of Ornette ( Jazz Workshop, 2011)

Lexigraphic entries

• Ian Carr et al Jazz Rough Guide. Stuttgart 1999
• Wolf Kampmann, Loeb Classical Jazz Encyclopedia. Stuttgart 2003