Jazz Articles about Christian McBride

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Christian McBride Big Band: The Good Feeling

by Dan Bilawsky
September 18, 2011

The Good Feeling marks the debut of the Christian McBride Big Band, but the seeds for this album were sown in the mid-'90s. Jazz at Lincoln Center commissioned McBride to write and arrange his first major big band work--"Bluesin' In Alphabet City"--in 1995, and that experience really sparked his interest in composing for large groups. Now, sixteen years after the ink dried on that number, it appears in the penultimate position on his first big band recording. ...

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Christian McBride & Inside Straight: Kind of Brown

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 26, 2010

Christian McBride & Inside Straight li avevamo ascoltati in uno dei migliori concerti dell'ultima estate romana [clicca qui per leggerne la recensione]: ritrovare quelle musiche a distanza di mesi in CD è un piacere e una conferma. L'energia vitale e comunicativa di quella serata, lo spessore del pensiero di McBride nell'organizzare il repertorio e arrangiarlo in modo sintetico, efficace, coinvolgente, l'assenza di pose distanti e cerebrali, tutto questo si ascolta in Kind of Brown. Un brillante gioco di parole nel ...

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Christian McBride: Here Comes McBride

by Russ Musto
December 12, 2009

"We're having a funky good time," bassist Christian McBride proudly announces with a characteristic broad smile--his voice joyous and resonant, as deep and dark as the sound of his instrument. Standing in his honored place, rear and center on the bandstand of the Village Vanguard, McBride has good reason for his unabashed expression of delight. He's celebrating the release of his latest CD, the excellent Kind of Brown (Mack Avenue), with a weeklong engagement leading his new hard swinging acoustic ...

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Christian McBride: Getting the Inside Straight

by Esther Berlanga-Ryan
November 24, 2009

If we think about it for a little while, it's possible to believe that there is something almost mystic and undeniably powerful about jazz. The way it developed through the years and its constant ignition-like energy; the creativity of those who lead the way and those who continue the journey today; the improvisation that takes over souls and willingly delivers its magic for an amazed world to listen.Jazz is a growing teenager whose future is as wide and ...

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Christian McBride & Inside Straight: Kind of Brown

by Ken Dryden
August 3, 2009

Since arriving in New York City in the late 1980s, where he briefly studied at Juilliard, Christian McBride has been one of jazz's most in-demand bassists. In addition, he has become a valuable composer, arranger and jazz educator with a wide-open interest in many musical styles. The initial CD by McBride's Inside Straight quartet features saxophonist Steve Wilson, pianist Eric Reed and drummer Carl Allen (with whom McBride worked in Benny Green's trio), expanding to a quintet on ...

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Christian McBride & Inside Straight: Kind of Brown

by John Barron
July 30, 2009

Bassist/composer Christian McBride is one of the most in-demand sidemen in the music business, having toured and recorded with the likes of Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Diana Krall and Sting. The Philadelphia-native has also made a name for himself as a daring leader, exploring both acoustic and electronic styles. For Kind of Brown, his premier date for the Detroit-based Mack Avenue Records, McBride introduces his new acoustic jazz quintet Inside Straight, featuring pianist Eric Scott Reed, saxophonist Steve Wilson, vibraphonist ...

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McBride, Payton and Whitfield at The Jazz Standard, NYC

by Herb Boyd
October 24, 2008

Christian McBride, Mark Whitfield and Nicholas Payton The Jazz Standard New York, New York September 4, 2008

Fresh from a recent busy weekend at the Detroit International Jazz Festival where he was artist-in- residence, bassist/composer Christian McBride was back on his home turf in Manhattan with his familiar sidemen, guitarist Mark Whitfield and trumpeter Nicholas Payton. Familiar too were the friendly confines of the Jazz Standard with a host of fellow musicians in the ...