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Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra featuring Faye Carol: Harriet Tubman

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 ...