An Online Documentary Archive of the San Francisco Live Jazz & Creative Music Scene (Primarily 2005-2012)
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The Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra performing live at Presentation Theater as part of the USF Black History Month series of events. The band played two sets comprising music from The Lights Suite, Port Chicago, and their current work-in-progress Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman.
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The first public preview performance of the Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra’s original jazz oratorio Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman as part of the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival in San Francisco on September 23, 2006.
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The Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra gave a headlining live performance at the Fillmore Street Jazz Festival in San Francisco on July 1, 2006. The band played original songs from their Port Chicago Suite and The Lights Suite, along with several Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn classics including Tourist Point of View and Ad Lib on Nippon from the Far East Suite and four tracks from Harlem Nutcracker and Blue Harlem.
