Word for Word Theater retells the boozy stories in Berlin’s posthumous, semi-autobiographical A Manual for Cleaning Women, with mixed results.
Should you need a reminder that the fight for social justice has always been intertwined with music, you'd be hard pressed to find a…
By LOU FANCHER Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra: The Legacy of Duke Ellington: 50 Years of Swing! Friday, May 2, 2014 Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley…
In 2011, choreographer Joanna Haigood and composer Marcus Shelby were commissioned by the Equal Justice Society to make a piece about the restoration of…
What happens when a sprawling cast of local talents — like Marcus Shelby, the Jazz Mafia, and Tumbleweed Wanderers — get together to perform…
Big-time success was never a likelihood for Porto Franco, a family-run Mission District record label that prides itself on championing local artists, rather than…
Marcus Shelby is a great composer. He's a heavy-duty jazz bass player, a music historian, and an engaged political thinker; he's a sharp-dressed handsome…
