The Dark TreeIn the early 1960s, pianist 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 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 collective, was at the forefront of the vital community