• Jesse Sharps Quintet – The Goat and the RamJam
    • Jesse Sharps Quintet – Question
    • Jesse Sharps Quintet – Macrame
    • Jesse Sharps Quintet – Mike's Tune
    • Jesse Sharps Quintet – As a Child
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    • 1. The Goat and the RamJam
    • 2. Question
    • 3. Macrame
    • 4. Mike's Tune
    • 5. As a Child
    • 6. Carnival

    **Straight from the 1/2” MASTER TAPES (All Analog Cut) plus unseen photos from the recording session in a deluxe tip-on sleeve!**

    Jesse Sharps is a major figure in the history of jazz music in Los Angeles. As the bandleader for Horace Tapscott’s Pan-Afrikan People’s Arkestra (P.A.P.A.) – the Marshall Allen to Tapscott’s Sun Ra.

    Sharps And Flats was recorded in 1985 for Tom Albach’s legendary Nimbus West imprint, a label Albach had founded specifically to document the work of Horace Tapscott and his circle. Featuring a quintet of P.A.P.A. regulars at the height of their game, Sharps And Flats is one of the great lost Nimbus sessions – it lay unissued until 2004, and never saw a vinyl press. Includes ‘McKowsky’s First Fifth’, a stunning 16 minute bonus cut by the Pan-Afrikan Peoples Arkestra featuring Horace Tapscott, recorded in 1979.

    Highly recommended!!!

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