A Song For Friday: Jamaaladeen Tacuma

A look as his roots inspires a new single from the bass master and some friends

As a huge Ornette Coleman fan in high school, I quickly dedicated myself to learning to say the name “Jamaaladeen Tacuma,” with confidence, a reference to the dazzling, inventive electric bassist who animated the polyrhythms of the composer’s Harmolodic visions. On albums like Body Meta, Of Human Feeling, and In All Languages, Tacuma’s dry sound and de…