Bassist, bandleader, producer, composer, and current MacDowell artist-in-residence Jamaaladeen Tacuma will give a live musical performance at the first MacDowell Downtown of the 2012 season! A Philadelphia native, Tacuma broke onto the national music scene in the 70s as a member of Ornette Coleman’s electric band. Releasing his debut album, Showstopper, in 1983, Tacuma has since recorded extensively on his own and collaborated with a wide spectrum of superlative musicians, including Pharoah Sanders, Marc Ribot, Carlos Santana, Anthony Davis, and four-time MacDowell Fellow and former Bauhaus front man, Peter Murphy. For his Peterborough audience, Tacuma will perform selections from his current work-in-progress, 2 Groove Electric. MacDowell Downtown, a series of free artist presentations offered by The MacDowell Colony, takes place the first Friday of each month from March through November.