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Sadiq Bey and Harriet Tubman Band in a Skype conversation

 

The Harriet Tubman Band Interview

 

 

 

Harriet Tubman Band formed in New York in 1998. Melvin Gibbs (bs), Brandon Ross (gtr) and J.T.Lewis (dr) make up the power trio that offered an additional view on group processing and dynamics, obtained from experience with exploratory units such as Power Tools, Henry Threadgill's Very, Very Circus, I and I, the Over Flow, David Murray, Sting, Bill Laswell and Cassandra Wilson, just to send musical images to the imagination. In short, they are the hitmen of creativity, veterans in the war against mediocrity. Their three releases are I Am A Man,Prototype and the latest, Ascension.

I recently had a chat via Skype with the group in their rehearsal space in Brooklyn, New York.

 

 

WARNING: the contents of this video contain strong language and opinions.

 

sadiq bey


 

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Harriet Tubman Band - "Night Master / Ascension"

 

Harriet Tubman Band & Cassandra Wilson - Strange fruit at New Morning

 

The music in the interview is Treasure Hunt For the Prototype, released on Avant Japan Records, 10.10.2000.