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"DON'T BE NO SLAVE", TO NUTHIN'!!!!!

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"Boasting loads of guitar pyrotechnics and elusive rhythm collisions,
Harriet Tubman are a power trio like no other."


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Harriet Tubman formed in 1998 when drummer J.T. Lewis, guitarist Brandon Ross and bassist Melvin Gibbs came together to start a band.
Harriet Tubman is named after the heroic African-American slave who risked her life to escape from slavery and helped more than 300 others to do the same. Deeply inspired by the ideals of freedom, Harriet Tubman's music plumbs the soul's depths for liberated musical expression.Harriet Tubman's music is an continuation of the process of contextual and musical innovation exhibited by such diverse artists as Ornette Coleman, Jimi Hendrix, Derrick May, Art Ensemble of Chicago and Parliment-Funkadelic. Recontextualizing musical technology to create innovative compostional and cultural spaces is an important part of the African-American cultural tradition. Harriet Tubman is part of our contribution to that tradition.In the late 1960's, in the U.S. and abroad, there came a profound and pervasive emergence of an awakening consciousness. A time of change and transition that spoke of the liberation of human beings from restrictive and dated paradigms that had characterized societal interaction and ways of being. Questions and challenges were posed that called for liberation and freedom at every level of our lives. Culturally, there grew a movement toward something greater, something incorruptible, something real and void of the superficiality of unexamined living. Content as liberator. Freedom.Harriet Tubman's music reflects the essential impulse of that wave of energy that entered and embraced our world in that time: depth, creativity, communication, spirituality, love, individuality, determination, expression, revelation. We feel that our choice to perform Open Music, has a value and relevance that connects with a re-awakening, a new search for restored meaning that we see and experience wherever and whenever we perform. Our music does not dictate through genre, or demographic, how one "should" relate to it.Harriet Tubman credentials:Brandon Ross: Henry Threadgill, Cassandra WiIlson, Jewel, Arrested Development, Oliver Lake's Jump Up, Butch Morris Ensembles, Arto Lindsay, Muhal Richard Abrams, Archie Shepp, Leroy Jenkins, Kip Hanrahan, Don Byron, Me'Shell N'degeocello, Tony Williams, and The Lounge Lizards.Melvin Gibbs: Rollins Band, dead prez, Punk-Funk All-Stars, DJ Logic, Arto Lindsay, Power Tools, Defunkt, Decoding Society, Caetano Veloso, Marisa Monte, Eye and I.J.T. Lewis: Living Colour, Dave Sanborn, Stanley Jordan, Sting, Lou Reed, Herbie Hancock, Don Pullen, Lou Reed, Tina Turner, Vanessa Williams, Whitney Houston, Henry Threadgill, Butch Morris, David Murray, Kip Hanrahan, Bill Laswell,Marc Ribot, Marianne Faithfull and Howard Johnson's Gravity.
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Member Since: 4/3/2006
Band Website: harriettubmanmusic.com/
Band Members: Harriet Tubman is: Brandon Ross: guitar, banjo and vocals
J.T. Lewis: drums
Melvin Gibbs: bassHarriet Tubman Double Trio is: Ross: guitar
Gibbs: bass
Lewis: drums
Ron Miles: Trumpet
DJ Singe: Turntables
DJ Logic: Turntables

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Influences: , THE MIDDLE PASSAGE
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Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

REALLY?

Have you ever tried to understand the difference between what you may have been taught, and actual practice - the way things are done "in the world"? This WHOLE U.S. Presidential election campaign cou...
Posted by harriet tubman: the band on Mon, 12 May 2008 11:24:00 PST

Taste Or Flavor?

Have we, mes amis, FORGOTTEN how to taste things of an unusual flavor? How to discover the truth that the newly arrived and the soon to depart, allow to hold all of their attention? Are we, of the "mi...
Posted by harriet tubman: the band on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 05:46:00 PST

TERRAIN OF FREEDOM

The terrain of REAL freedom is pathless. No preparation is required.Relinquishing separation is.Appearances are merely that.Distraction is "sugar" to the mind.Drama unfolds and any part that is unnece...
Posted by harriet tubman: the band on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:33:00 PST

BLACK HISTORY MONTH? GEE THANX

WHEN U PAY YOUR DUES, KEEP THE RECEIPT!!!!, THANX FOR THE MONTH, BUT U KEEP IT!!!!...
Posted by harriet tubman: the band on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 03:24:00 PST

HARRIET TUBMAN @ BROOKLYN MUSEUM

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Posted by harriet tubman: the band on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 03:03:00 PST

Harriet Tubman & "Basque - r - ville"

Hey All,2008, a white woman and a black man are both running for the presidency of the united states of america; the planet is warm in new places; a genocide is unfolding under our noses... yet AGAIN,...
Posted by harriet tubman: the band on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 05:50:00 PST

REVIEW OF JOES PUB PERFORMANCE

audiologo...where sounds, words, and sights hopefully comingle, in the sensical and non-sensical terrainFriday, September 21, 2007(The Church of) Harriet Tubman @ Joe's Pub 9/21/07Whenever I hear Harr...
Posted by harriet tubman: the band on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 07:36:00 PST

Lance Carter Memorial Concert Review

from JazzTimesoriginally hereLance Carter Memorial for the Jazz Foundation of AmericaVenue/Location: Knitting Factory New York, NY USADate(s): May 31, 2007Written By: Bill MilkowskiLance Carter, who...
Posted by harriet tubman: the band on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 04:13:00 PST

BOX-ING

Other night, I went to hear/see a multi-media performance in Brooklyn... which is just a side-bar really. Point: I met a musician there. The topic of capabilities came up, re: ways of performing, expr...
Posted by harriet tubman: the band on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 11:34:00 PST

CREATING

After that Michael Richards "meltdown" on the LAUGH stage in, L.A> was it??? The whole "N-word" issue got kicked around in some homes, in some 'hoods, and it stirred the notion of the constant of crea...
Posted by harriet tubman: the band on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 09:39:00 PST