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Jamaaladeen Tacuma: The Bass Electric

Don Snowden, L.A. Weekly, 31 May 1984

PREDICTING THAT Jamaaladeen Tacuma will be one of the premier bassists of the decade will not get you into the Guinness Book of World Records for climbing out on a limb. The lanky Philadelphia native has been a marked man since he appeared — credited under his given name of Rudy McDaniel — on Ornette Coleman's ground-breaking 1977 Dancing In Your Head LP.

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