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April 16. 2008
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Live Music
• Hannah Bea's, 3969 N.E. Mar­
tin Luther King Jr. Blvd., presents
jazz during its ‘Sunday Brunch
Serenade' from 11 a.m.to 1 p.m.
• Live jazz Sundays from 8:30 to
11:30 p.tn. at Clyde's Prime Rib,
5474 N.E. Sandy, and at the Blue
Monk, 3341 S.E. Belmont.
• An open mic is held each Mon­
day night at the Back-to-Back
Café, 614 E. Burnside.
• Blues offered up Wednesdays
at theCandlelight Room, 2032 S. W.
Fifth; Duff’s Garage, 635 S.E.
Seventh; and the Blue Diamond,
2016 N.E. Sandy.
• Jazz each Wednesday night at
the Blue Monk, the Portland Art
Museum, Jimmy Mac’s. andJax’s,
26 S.W. Second.
Reggae Event at the Blue Monk
bass, sweet soul lyrics and
melodies with the full tilt of
Afrikan drums comes to frui­
tion and makes for an enthral­
ling perform ance w henever
l&l takes the stage'.
O.B. Addy and l&I have
become a favorite with fans of
blues, country, rock and even
classical music.
The fifth monthly reggae
event to benefit KBOO com ­
munity radio will feature O.B.
Addy and I&l on Saturday,
April 26, at the The Blue Monk,
3341 S.E. Belmont Ave. Doors
open at 9 p.m. The cover is $8
at the door.
A ddy, the fo u n d e r and
leader of I&I, was born and
raised in a traditional “ house
of drum m ing” in Ghana, West
Africa, which meant being at
the heart o f an extraordinarily
rich musical culture.
His dream to put together a
reggae band that would com ­
bine, the perfect blend o f Afri-
Caribbean rhythms, heartbeat
O. B. Addy will be at the
Blue Monk Saturday,
April 26.
G U A R D IN O
Harriet Tubman and Jazz
G ALLER Y
Vocal ensemble tells heroic story
A w ard-w inning com poser
Marcus Shelby has produced a
stunning new 2-CD set titled
“Harriet Tubman,” featuring the
Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra
and vocalists Faye Carol, Kenny
Washington, Joseph Mace and
Jeannine Anderson
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Marcus Shelby produced a new CD entitled ‘Harriet Tubman. ’
T he
vocal
en sem b le
ch ro n ic le s the life one o f
A m e ric a ’s g re a te st heroes
adapted from historian Kate
Clifford Larson’s book Harriet
Tubman: Bound for the Prom­
ised Land.
Called the “Moses of Her
People,” Tubman is most often
recognized for her work as a
“conductor” on the Underground
Railroad. But Tubm an also
worked as a scout, nurse and
spy for the Union in the Civil
War and was a pioneer in advo­
cating for the civil rights of
women and the elderly.
In all of her work, music
was Tubm an’s constant com ­
panion - she even used music
to comm unicate coded m es­
sages to e sc a p in g slaves!
Shelby notes that he “tried to
organize this composition to
reflect the sources of the lan­
guage o f jazz - field cries, blues
hollers, work songs, spirituals,
scat singing - and to portray
this m usic's profound relation­
ship to Harriet Tubm an’s he­
roic story.”