18th Annual New Mexico Jazz Festival

Schedule:

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm  : Harriet Tubman featuring Brandon Ross, Melvin Gibbs & JT Lewis at Outpost Performance Space

We close the 24th New Mexico Jazz Festival with an exciting concert by the Harriet Tubman Group. Formed in 1998 by drummer J.T. Lewis, guitarist/singer Brandon Ross, and bassist Melvin Gibbs, the New York based "Harriet Tubman" is named after the heroic African-American slave who risked her life to escape from slavery and help more than 300 others to do the same. The band wanted to create a musical collaboration with meaning behind it and Harriet Tubman, who was deeply inspired by the ideals of freedom, was the inspiration. The trio’s music is a fusion of soul, rock, jazz, and blues and, as they describe it, “examines the depths of these genres for their own unique liberated musical expression.” The band counts Jimi Hendrix, Ornette Coleman, and Parliament-Funkadelic as contributors to its musical DNA, and their own unique sound – pure and liberated musical expression – is a deep and soulful meditation on the concept of freedom. Integrating sampling and other digital methods into their genre-defying sound, Harriet Tubman “embraces the pioneering spirit of jazz, re-contextualizing musical technology to create innovative compositions, an important part of the African-American tradition.” Ross, Gibbs, and Lewis have each collaborated with artists as diverse as Cassandra Wilson, Living Colour, Lou Reed, Herbie Hancock, Henry Threadgill, Sting, Arrested Development, the Rollins Band, David Murray and Meshell Ndegeocello. Their 2017 release, Araminta, was one of the most celebrated recordings of that year and their new recording The Terror End of Beauty has already been met with wide critical praise from Rolling Stone Magazine, The Wire (UK), and Downbeat Magazine. In 2018, their performance at the Earshot Jazz Festival, was cited as the #1 best live concert in 2018 by NPR jazz critic Nate Chinen.

DOORS 6:30pm

Cost: $15 - $50

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