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Harriet Tubman

Label: Noir Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: CD1: Prelude: Ben & Rit; Ashanti Stomp; I Will Not Stand Still; Ben (Passin' Time); Life on the Chesapeake; Over Here Lord; North to Delaware. CD2: Stampede of Slaves; Freedom Trail; 54th Regiment (Will They Fight?); Black Suffrage Blues; Go Down Moses.

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Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra: Harriet Tubman

Read "Harriet Tubman" reviewed by Budd Kopman

by Budd Kopman
August 19, 2008

Bassist, librettist, composer, and conductor Marcus Shelby has created with the jazz oratorio and double CD Harriet Tubman, a work that ought to have a place of honor in the intersecting worlds of jazz and American Black history. Performed exquisitely by the Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra, with vocals mostly by Faye Carol as Harriet Tubman, but ...

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Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra: Harriet Tubman

Read "Harriet Tubman" reviewed by Michael P. Gladstone

by Michael P. Gladstone
July 26, 2008

Harriet Tubman is an ambitious jazz opera, largely composed and arranged by bassist Marcus Shelby for his Jazz Orchestra. Shelby was a member of Black/Note, an ensemble that recorded for Blue Note and Impulse! during the first half of the 1990s. The biographical heroine of this effort is the 18th-century woman who rose from slavery to ...

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Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra: Harriet Tubman

Read "Harriet Tubman" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 23, 2008

Harriet Tubman resta un simbolo per la nazione afro-americana e mentre si avvicina il centenario della scomparsa (nel 2013) la sua figura viene sempre più celebrata: dieci anni fa Wynton Marsalis le ha dedicato un brano del disco Thick in the South, più recentemente Brandon Ross, Melvin Gibbs e J.T. Lewis hanno intitolato il loro organico ...

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Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra featuring Faye Carol: Harriet Tubman

Read "Harriet Tubman" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
June 16, 2008

Bay Area bassist and orchestra leader Marcus Shelby conducts his jazz oratorio based on the life of legendary Underground Railroad heroine, Harriet Tubman. Her story doesn't lack for pathos or drama--either in its broad outline or in the smaller details. For example, while she was a teenaged slave, an overseer threw an iron weight at her ...

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Prototype

By Harriet Tubman

Label: Avant
Released: 2000
Track listing: Of Passage; Slide Rule; My New Puppy; There Goes The Neighborhood; The Prototype; Adapted; Chief Of Police; Frozen Fire; Wild Seed; Where We Stand.

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Harriet Tubman: Prototype

Read "Prototype" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
November 1, 2000

The second ‘strange meeting’ between the members of the thumping power trio known as Harriet Tubman was recorded live in New York, Finland, and The Netherlands. Why bassist Melvin Gibbs choose to reincarnate his previous band Power Tools can be answered by noting the sales of powered amps and woofers over the past decade. Gibbs, guitarist ...

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I Am A Man

By Harriet Tubman

Label: Sunnyside Communications
Released: 1998

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Harriet Tubman: I Am A Man

by Glenn Astarita
December 1, 1998

Harriet Tubman is: Brandon Ross guitar; Melvin Gibbs bass and J.T. Lewis drums. Titled: “I Am A Man”, this reviewer will deviate from researching any hidden agenda or subliminal message; however, I can ascertain without reservation that these three “NYC Downtown Scene” veterans have produced an enthusiastic outing which traverses many frontiers. “Freedom of Expression” is ...