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Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra: Harriet Tubman
by Budd Kopman
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 ...
Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra: Harriet Tubman
by Michael P. Gladstone
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 ...
Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra: Harriet Tubman
by AAJ Italy Staff
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 ...
Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra: Port Chicago
by Jack Bowers
Are you aware of Port Chicago, and do you know what happened there more than sixty years ago? Chances are you don't, as it's not something American history books will likely mention or military recruiters point to with pride. In brief: on July 17, 1944, a massive explosion at the Port Chicago Naval Base (near Oakland, ...
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