Sat 2/10 @ 7:30-9:30PM
Jazz bassist & composer Christian McBride is, at age 51, at the top of the jazz world, well known, respected and influential, the winner of eight Grammys and host of NPR’s Jazz Night in America. He started playing in the bands of well-known veterans when he was still a teenager and has performed as a sideman of hundreds of albums, on 20 as a bandleader.
His album The Movement Revisited: A Musical Portrait of Four Icons, was initially conceived, composed and recorded in 1998 as a tribute to Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Dr. Matin Luther King Jr, and Muhammad Ali, and re-recorded in 2013, adding President Barack Obama to the list, with additional music featuring a gospel choir and big band. It was finally released in 2020.
McBride will be at the Maltz Performing Arts Center, leading a performance of the work, complete with a big band, gospel choir and narrators and some of the soloists from the album including vocalist Alicia Olatuja, pianist Geoffrey Keezer, drummer Terreon Gully and sax player Ron Blake.
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