''Aiee! The Phantom'' is an album by American jazz pianist/composer

Horace Tapscott Horace Elva Tapscott (April 6, 1934 – February 27, 1999) was an American jazz pianist and composer. He formed the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra (also known as P.A.P.A., or The Ark) in 1961 and led the ensemble through the 1990s. Early lif ...

recorded in 1995 and released on the

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Reception

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awarded the album 4½ stars with its review by Scott Yanow stating, "Falling between post bop and the avant-garde, Tapscott plays locally with a blazing (if thus far undocumented) quartet... Perhaps this recording (available from Arabesque) will alert the rest of the jazz world as to the strong talents of the great veteran Horace Tapscott".Yanow, S.,

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Track listing

''All compositions by Horace Tapscott except as indicated'' # "To the Great House" - 7:52 # "The Goat and Ram Jam" (Jesse Sharps) - 8:54 # "Aiee! The Phantom" - 10:31 # "Drunken Mary/Mary on Sunday" - 9:30 # "Inspiration of Silence" (Ernest Straughter) - 6:42 # "Mothership" - 15:52

Personnel

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References

{{Authority control Arabesque Records albums Horace Tapscott albums 1996 albums