1. Jamaaladeen Tacuma was born on Rudy McDaniel; June 11,1956 and is an American jazz funk avant-garde bassist, composer and producer born in Hempstead, New York.
10 Facts About Jamaaladeen Tacuma
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Jamaaladeen Tacuma was a bandleader on the Gramavision label and worked with Ornette Coleman during the 1970s and 1980s, mostly in Coleman's Prime Time band.
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Jamaaladeen Tacuma formed his own group, and recorded albums that incorporated commercially accessible melodies while retaining Prime Time's elaborate harmonies.
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Jamaaladeen Tacuma, raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, showed interest in music at a young age, performing with the organist Charles Earland in his teens.
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Jamaaladeen Tacuma switched to a Steinberger bass in the 1980s, an instrument that helped him create his readily identifiable sound.
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Jamaaladeen Tacuma was frequently featured in music magazines thanks to his aggressive, driving playing style and his angular fashion sense.
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In 1981, Jamaaladeen Tacuma received the highest number of votes ever for an electric bassist in the "talent deserving wider recognition" category of the DownBeat magazine critics poll.
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Jamaaladeen Tacuma has made numerous solo and collaborative recordings, including several CDs of duets with saxophonist Wolfgang Puschnig.
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Jamaaladeen Tacuma has recorded two albums with Basso Nouveau, a group that features multiple bassists playing together on a variety of instruments, including electric bass, upright bass and acoustic bass guitar, and that includes bassist Gerald Veasley.
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Jamaaladeen Tacuma has received The MacDowell Colony 2011, Headlands Center for the Arts 2012 and Civitella Ranieri 2014 residency fellowship.