1:25Jamaaladeen Tacuma and Aguilar Amplification
Jamaaladeen Tacuma
Rare soundcheck footage of Jamaaladeen Tacuma, curated from across the internet. Browse 2 clips below.
Soundcheck footage is uniquely intimate — it’s often the only time an artist plays in a venue without an audience, and the atmosphere is completely different from the show that follows. Musicians use soundchecks to warm up, try out new material, revisit deep cuts, or just jam. Some of the best unreleased performances were captured during soundchecks.
Jamaaladeen Tacuma (born Rudy McDaniel; June 11, 1956) is an American jazz funk avant-garde bassist, composer and producer born in Hempstead, New York. He was a bandleader on the Gramavision label and worked with Ornette Coleman during the 1970s and 1980s, mostly in Coleman's Prime Time band. Tacuma showcased a unique style of avant-garde jazz on Coleman's 1982 album Of Human Feelings, and became ...
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