The latest edition from Dark Tree’s Roots Series is an especially deep dive into Los Angeles’s late 1970s creative music scene. Bassist Roberto Miranda is a reliable sideman who got his break accompanying Charles Lloyd in 1972, and remains active today, but you have to look back to some Nimbus releases from the early 80s and one album from 2002 to find anything else released under his name. [...]
Bassisten Roberto Miranda ble født i New York med foreldre fra Puerto Rico. Faren hans, Louis, var sanger, perkusjonist, elektriker og var ogsåunge Robertos første musikklærer. Moren, Mary, var hjemmeværende, sekretær og senere sykepleier. En av Robertos beste minner fra oppveksten var å se foreldrene danse, og de var et ganske attraktivt par, ifølge historien. [...]
Il faut vraiment louer le remarquable est scrupuleux travail d’édition du label Dark Tree autour de la scène « free-jazz » sud californienne. Bobby Bradford et John Carter, Horace Tapscott, Vinny Golia, dans des enregistrements soignés et quasi incontournables. Roberto Miranda est un contrebassiste qu’on a découvert il y a longtemps au sein des premiers groupes de Vinny Golia (label Nine Winds en vinyle) et qui joue aussi dans ce magnifique chef d’œuvre de Bradford et Carter publié par Dark Street : NO U TURN, un album incontournable. [...]
Talvez o nome de Roberto Miranda não diga muito aos ouvintes portugueses. Trata-se, no entanto, de uma figura histórica da cena do free jazz que se desenvolveu nas décadas de 1970 e 80 na parte Sul de Los Angeles, uma cena em que a música era um acto comunitário e emancipatório em íntima comunhão com as populações afro-americana e latina daquela cidade, a mesma das revoltas de 1992, e que se exponenciou em redor de projectos como a Pan African Peoples Arkestra ou a Union of God’s Musicians and Artists Ascension. [...]
Roberto Miranda has appeared on almost one-hundred albums but has been lightly recorded as a leader, and inexplicably struggled to generate interest among labels. Dark Tree Records has released some great Horace Tapscott performances from the ’70s and ’80s. The label resurrected a Miranda-led session on Live at the Bing Theater; Los Angeles, 1985. Recorded at the USC campus auditorium, the sound is pristine, and the ambiance, eclectic and dynamic. [...]
Horace Tapscott faisait partie d’une véritable famille musicale basée sur la côte Ouest qui comprenait des musiciens comme le trompettiste Bobby Bradford, son partenaire habituel le grand clarinettiste John Carter et le flûtiste James Newton. Ils se retrouvent tous les quatre pour la première fois sur une même scène en 1985 au sein du Ricardo Miranda’s Home Music Ensemble. [...]
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