Happy day: "The Dark Tree: Jazz and the Community Arts in Los Angeles" has been republished in paperback by Duke University Press. Revised and updated, Steven Isoardi's landmark research work, which centers on the community actions and music of Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra leader Horace Tapscott, will now be widely available for the first time since its 2006 debut. Read it!
Read Matt Duersten's 2006 L.A. Weekly interview with Isoardi and other Tapscott archivists here.