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Port Chicago

Label: Noir Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Act 1: Introduction; Opening Dance; Call to War; Training Day; Mechanized Women; Work Routine; Barracks Life; Black in Blue. Act 2: Work Routine 2; Big Liberty Blues; Sweet Brownness; Explosion; After; Exoneration (76:54).

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Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra: Port Chicago

Read "Port Chicago" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
May 1, 2006

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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