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Kind Of Brown

Christian McBride / Inside Straight

Kind Of Brown

Price: € 17.95
Format: CD
Label: Mack Avenue
UPC: 0673203104723
Catnr: MAC 1047
Release date: 02 October 2009
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Mack Avenue
UPC
0673203104723
Catalogue number
MAC 1047
Release date
02 October 2009
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Er war noch nicht einmal vollj�hrig, als McBride 1989 von Philadelphia nach New York kam. Aber schon bald war klar, dass die Metropole des Jazz �ber einen neuen Ausnahmek�nstler am elektrischen und akustischen Bass verf�gte. Seither ist er auf �ber 250 CDs zu h�ren - u.a. als Grammy-Winner - und ist in der Welt bekannt geworden als Tieft�ner bei Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Diana Krall und Sting. Nach CDs bei Verve und Warner erscheint sein j�ngstes Werk 'Kind of Brown' nun bei dem auff�lligsten jungen amerikanischen Label Mack Avenue (Stanley Jordan, Kenny Garrett, Sean Jones...).

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Christian McBride

In the 1960s, when the Civil Rights Movement achieved its greatest moments, gifted bassist and composer Christian McBride was not yet born. As a child in the 1970s, he learned the history of the movement in school, but due to a quirk of fate – his grandmother’s fortunate propensity for saving old things – he found another source of information that spoke to him on a more emotionally accessible level than history books. “When I was a kid, I used to spend hours looking at old copies of Ebony and Jet magazines that my grandmother saved,” he says. “To read contemporaneous writings by black writers about events and people who were my history – our history – that was absolutely fascinating...
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In the 1960s, when the Civil Rights Movement achieved its greatest moments, gifted bassist and composer Christian McBride was not yet born. As a child in the 1970s, he learned the history of the movement in school, but due to a quirk of fate – his grandmother’s fortunate propensity for saving old things – he found another source of information that spoke to him on a more emotionally accessible level than history books.

“When I was a kid, I used to spend hours looking at old copies of Ebony and Jet magazines that my grandmother saved,” he says. “To read contemporaneous writings by black writers about events and people who were my history – our history – that was absolutely fascinating to me. It was the greatest gift my grandmother could have given to me.”

That gift played a major role in the creation of The Movement Revisited: A Musical Portrait of Four Icons, McBride’s stunning masterpiece about “the struggle,” which is now a 20 year-long, continuously evolving project. The work combines elements of jazz, gospel, big band, swing, symphony, theater and dramatic spoken word, in a clear-eyed yet optimistic look at where our society has come from and where it is hopefully headed.

Born in Philadelphia, McBride was a gifted musical prodigy who soaked up influences from every direction. At the tender age of 17, he was recruited by saxophonist Bobby Watson to join his group, Horizon. During the 1990s, he proceeded to work with some of the biggest names in jazz, including Pat Metheny, Wynton Marsalis, Freddie Hubbard and Chick Corea as well as major pop and rock stars like Sting, Paul McCartney, James Brown and Celine Dion. His abilities were also coveted by the classical music world, including opera legends Kathleen Battle and Renee Fleming.

In 1998, a musical commission from the Portland (Maine) Arts Society set in motion what would eventually become a major part of his life’s work. The only stipulation for the commission was that it had to include a choir. “At that time, I called it a musical portrait of the Civil Rights Movement,” Christian says. “I thought about those times and decided that rather than try to write a history of the movement, I wanted to evoke its spirit and feeling.”


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