The Gathering, a Tribute to Jesse Sharps + Chris Powe
October 10 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
presented in partnership with
6:00pm – Chris Powe
Chris Powe – sax
Veritus Miller – piano
Paul Reinhold – bass
Vinnie Aguas – drums
7:00pm – The Gathering, a Tribute to Jesse Sharps
Fundi Legohn – French Horn and Conducting
Dwight Trible – voice
Tatiana Tate – trumpet
Kafi Roberts – flute
Devin Daniels– saxophone
Jamael Dean – piano
Nick Rosen – bass
Michael Alvidrez – bass
Fritz Wise – drums
On October 10th, 2005 Jesse Sharps brought together some of the hottest young players in Los Angeles with members of Horace Tapscott’s Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra for a historic recording session. This session spawned The Gathering, an ongoing community band, a documentary film, and multiple recordings.
Jesse was one of Horace’s most trusted and influential bandleaders, leading the Arkestra during their strongest period in the ’70s, on several seminal recordings, and he recently put together a 60-year anniversary reunion session of the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra.
The Gathering was Jesse’s vehicle for bringing together musicians from a broad spectrum and highlighting the music of the Arkestra. And 20 years on now, Jesse Sharps’ musical journey has become part of the Ancestral Echoes, just as it did for his mentor and friend Horace Tapscott years before.
Ancestral Echoes was one of Jesse’s favorite compositions by Horace, and like his mentor Horace, his contributions will continue to be felt by those he inspired and connected with. Come celebrate this great music and legacy that will continue on for years to come.
Jesse Sharps
Back in the 1970s Jesse Sharps was the legendary bandleader for Horace Tapscott’s Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra. He led the group on the seminal albums released through Nimbus West Records at the peak of the band’s power and strength.
Following an extended period abroad in Europe, he returned to Los Angeles in the summer of 2005 to pull together and catalog the extensive repertoire of the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, featuring over 400 compositions by more than 100 composers dating back to the early 1960s.
With plans to bring select compositions forward and share them with the world, The Gathering: Roots & Branches of Los Angeles Jazz was born. Since then Jesse continued his work featuring select pieces for performance and recording, and put together the Los Angeles Composers of the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, an organization dedicated to bringing the music to schools and institutions throughout the world for performance and study.
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