jazz · guitar · free jazz

HARRIET TUBMAN

jazzguitarfree jazzinstrumentalavant-jazzbass

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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.

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