
Harriet Tubman with Graham Haynes
History Dog Trio
January 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Sultan Room

The raucous liberatory collective Harriet Tubman, formed by guitarist-vocalist Brandon Ross, bassist Melvin Gibbs, and drummer JT Lewis in 1998, advances a brash, enveloping, danceable sound fusing "genres" of Black music — "the digging of everything," in the words of Amiri Baraka. Harriet Tubman will be joined for this performance by their friend and fellow traveler Graham Haynes.
Harriet Tubman is widely regarded for their astonishing and transporting live and recorded performances, with their 2018 album, The Terror End of Beauty, landing on the year end lists of The New York Times and Rolling Stone. Tubman's wide-ranging musical collaborations include albums with Cassandra Wilson, who collaborated with them on Black Sun, and Pulitzer Prize finalist Wadada Leo Smith, on their album Araminta, and a forthcoming release with producer/composer/singer Georgia Anne Muldrow.
History Dog is a NYC-based band that transmutes the pulse of New York's improvised music community, bringing voice, trumpet, bass, and drums into a fierce dialogue with electronics, poetry, and collective improvisation. Founded by Shara Lunon (vocals/electronics), Lesley Mok (drums), Chris Williams (trumpet/electronics) and Luke Stewart (bass/electronics) shortly after the start of Israel's most recent campaign in Gaza, the group is a response to the sorrows of the present moment, and deeply rooted in the improvised music community's spirit of exploration, where raw expression and collaboration thrive. History Dog's debut album, Root Systems, is due out in February of 2025 and invites listeners to confront humanity's fractures and connections, creating realms that feel both intimate and powerful. For this concert, History Dog will appear as a trio without Luke Stewart.
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