Christian McBride

(Ok. Take 3. Grrrr....) Nice to speak with my old friend, GENE SANTORO! https://t.co/ypVa1XUlEw

— Christian McBride (@mcbridesworld) July 10, 2016

Christian McBride

Celebrating Christian McBride's birthday. There aren't enough accolades we can bestow on Christian and we know... https://t.co/hdE4MvxuiC

— JazzCorner.com (@jazzcorner) May 31, 2016

Christian McBride

Proceeds from INSIDE THE JAZZ NOTE support our educational fund. Buy your tickets now! Me & @wyntonmarsalis on 5/19 pic.twitter.com/IeudZiVjjU

— Christian McBride (@mcbridesworld) May 10, 2016

Joe Lovano - "Little Willie Leaps"

Published on Jul 4, 2012
Tenor saxophonist Joe Lovano performing Miles Davis' "Little Willie Leaps" with pianist Mulgrew Miller, bassist Christian McBride and drummer Lewis Nash.

Gary Smulyan: A Tribute

Uploaded on Apr 28, 2010
Baritone saxophonist Gary Smulyan performing Tadd Dameron's composition "Jahbero" with bassist Christian McBride and drummer Billy Drummond.

Milt Jackson 1923-1999: A Tribute

Uploaded on Aug 22, 2010
Vibraphonist Milt Jackson performing Jimmy Heath's "Bopag'in" with Jesse Davis [alto saxophone], Joshua Redman [tenor saxophone], Nicholas Payton [trumpet], Benny Green [piano], Christian McBride [bass], and Kenny Washington [drums].

Jazz legends Stanley Jordan and Christian McBride

Mack Avenue Records have been busy the past two weeks.  Jazz legends Stanley Jordan andChristian McBride both released new albums on September 27^th.  

Stanley Jordan - Friends

On Friends, Jordan takes the time-honored path of inviting a handpicked cadre of guests: guitarists Bucky Pizzarelli, Mike Stern, Russell Malone and Charlie Hunter; violinist Regina Carter; saxophonists Kenny Garrett and Ronnie Laws; trumpeter Nicholas Payton; bassists Christian McBride and Charnett Moffett; and drummer Kenwood Dennard. The results proved truly outstanding on numbers ranging from a Bela Bartok piece to a Katy Perry pop smash, a heady original blues and three jazz classics spanning swing, cool and modern. There's a listener-friendly samba, an airy spirit song and an astounding nod to the atonal. Jordan even plays some serious piano on a couple of songs, revisiting his first instrument with newfound confidence and wonder.

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Christian McBride - Good Feeling

Good Feeling is McBride’s first album as a big band leader.  Good Feeling features classic big band gems along with a few McBride original compositions.  “The bassist with the mostest,” McBride invites friends including band mate Steve Wilson, Ron Blake, Nicholas Payton and vocalist Melissa Walker to join him in this project – a life long dream of his.

For over 20 years, McBride has appeared in numerous musical settings with just about any musician imaginable in the jazz as well as R&B and pop worlds. From playing with the likes of Milt Jackson, Roy Haynes, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock and Pat Metheny; to playing with and/or arranging for the likes of Isaac Hayes, Chaka Khan, Lalah Hathaway, Sting and the legendary James Brown—what has always been unique about McBride is his versatility. In addition to his work in the neo-soul arena with The Roots, D’Angelo, Queen Latifah and others, the Philadelphia native has also led his own ensembles: The Christian McBride Band, A Christian McBride Situation and his most recent group, Inside Straight (fresh off their critically acclaimed 2009 effort, Kind of Brown).

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-Jenny

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Just in Time - Christian McBride & Melissa Walker

Just in Time - C McBride & Melissa Walker no Bridgestone Music Festival em São Paulo Brasil 22/05/2010.

Christian McBride

The finest musicians to spring from the world of jazz have clearly had an advantage when it comes to branching into other genres of music. Their mastery of composition, arranging and sight reading coupled with their flair for improvisation and spontaneous creation make them possibly the most seasoned and adaptable musicians in the art. Grammy Award winner Christian McBride, chameleonic virtuoso of the acoustic and electric bass, stands tall at the top of this clique.
Beginning in 1989 – the beginning of an amazing career in which he still has wider-reaching goals to attain - the Philadelphian has thus far been first-call-requested to accompany literally hundreds of fine artists, ranging in an impressive array from McCoy Tyner and Sting to Kathleen Battle and Diana Krall. However, it is his own recordings – albums that encompass a diverse canon of original compositions and imaginatively arranged covers – that reveal the totality of his musicianship. He currently leads one of the hottest bands in music - the propulsive Christian McBride Band (saxophonist Ron Blake, keyboardist Geoffrey Keezer and drummer Terreon Gully).

The most awe-inspiring thing about Christian McBride is that his prowess as a player is only half of what makes him such a respected, in-demand and mind-bogglingly busy individual. The portrait is completed by a mere mid-thirty-something man who carved out time to speak at former President Clintonʼs town hall meeting on “Racism in the Performing Arts.” He holds Artistic Director posts at the Jazz Aspen Snowmass summer program and the Dave Brubeck Institute at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, CA. McBride participated in a Stanford University panel on “Black Performing Arts in Mainstream America.” Heʼs hosted insightful one-on-one “jazz chats” in Cyberspace on Sonicnet.com. He also scribed the foreword for pianist Jonny Kingʼs book, What Jazz Is (Walker & Co., New York). 2005 witnessed his adding two more prestigious appointments to his resume. In January, he was named co-director of The Jazz Museum in Harlem. While assisting Leonard Garment and Loren Schoenberg in obtaining government grants and the participation of top flight historians/musicians, Christian will be focusing on a longtime concern: exposing jazz to young people. “To a degree, jazz is non-existent in most major urban communities, which deeply saddens me,” McBride states. “Kids don't understand who our jazz greats were.

My contribution towards rectifying this will be getting them to check out free events at the museum by inviting jazz and non-jazz musicians, athletes and speakers that they can relate to.” While working for the museum in Harlem, McBride will be racking up frequent flyer miles as Creative Chair for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, giving him a degree of influence over commercial and educational programs at the Hollywood Bowl and Disney Hall. The position is being passed on to him by singer Dianne Reeves who held it for the last three years. Naturally, there will be more collaborations and sideman gigs, which he scrutinizes extra carefully now
due to his schedule. Most importantly, he will continue to lead the Christian McBride Band which, together with special guests, has recorded this live album for ropeadope. This album, ever revolutionary as only McBride would have it, was compiled from two nights – two shows apiece –
http://www.iridiumjazzclub.com/talent.php?talent=666&month=9&year=2009

The Movement Revisited' Pays Tribute To King....

January 18, 2009 - Christian McBride is best known as one of the most sought-after contemporary jazz and pop bass players. But he's also a serious composer.
His hour-long work "The Movement Revisited" melds spoken texts from four leading figures of the civil-rights movement — Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali and Martin Luther King Jr. — with a jazz band and a gospel choir.
McBride says it was challenging to find just the right spoken passages to go with the music, particularly with King.

"Every speech the man wrote was a masterpiece, so we're talking about a good 13 years of speeches and letters and different sorts of texts to chose from," McBride says. "You really can't go wrong, you know. If you find a book of Martin Luther King Jr. quotes, close your eyes and put your finger on the page; you'll come up with a great quote."
As he put together the work, there was one text he knew he absolutely needed to include.
"Obviously, you have to pick 'I Have a Dream,' which is probably one of the greatest speeches in history," McBride says. "So that was sort of a no-brainer."

To celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day, NPR Music presents the last section of Christian McBride's "The Movement Revisited," dedicated to King. Click the link at the top of the page to hear a live performance of the work.
The entirety of "The Movement Revisited" will be featured this summer in an installment of Discoveries at Walt Disney Concert Hall, an eclectic mix of concert specials recorded live at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.
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