Search results for "Christian McBride"

Christian McBride: Little Sunflower (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music November 19, 07

Bass solos suck. Let's face it, the ponderous, unwieldy instrument is meant to fill out the bottom like stuffing, not...

Christian McBride: Theme for Kareem (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music August 04, 09

At the annual bass players convention, the meeting divides into two camps. The melodic, play-bass-like-a-big-guitar ...

Bruce Hornsby (with Christian McBride & Jack DeJohnette): Questions and Answers (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music January 01, 08

I have long suspected that Bruce Hornsby would take a trip to jazz land, probably since his Harbor Lights release. Al...

Christian McBride / Nicholas Payton / Mark Whitfield: Oliloqui Valley (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music April 15, 08

With Herbie Hancock's celebration of Joni Mitchell, River: The Joni Letters, receiving much recent acclaim, now is pe...

Superbass: It Ain't Necessarily So (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music September 16, 09

Certainly, playing with Ray and John Clayton in Superbass was one of the highlights of my entire career. Getting to a...

Joe Henderson: Isfahan (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music April 02, 08

In this Ellington/Strayhorn tune, purportedly inspired by the beauty of the Persian city of the same name, we he...

Randy Crawford & Joe Sample: Feeling Good (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 20, 07

Randy Crawford and Joe Sample first showed how well they worked together when Crawford sang with Sample’s then-band t...

Clifton Anderson: Z (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music September 03, 09

Clifton Anderson has been standing on a stage or bandstand next to his uncle Sonny Rollins since 1983. Such is the ty...

Renee Rosnes: Black Holes (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music September 29, 08

In 1997, two months after participating in this session, Chris Potter recorded his breakthrough CD Unspoken. Christia...

Mike Clark: Loft Funk (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music January 08, 09

Mike Clark was immortalized for his mercilessly funky rhythms on Herbie Hancock's 1974 fusion classic Thrust. Thirty-...

Geoff Keezer: Stompin' at the Savoy (Rating: 83/100) posted in Music March 06, 08

Geoff Keezer performed in the final installment of the Jazz Messengers. He is therefore featured on a couple of origi...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE BEST OF THE ART BLAKEY ALUMS

There are post-Swing Era bandleaders, and then there is Art Blakey. After a brief time spent developing his craft by ...

Toots Thielemans: Naima (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music March 14, 08

Chromatic harmonica master Jean "Toots" Thielemans assembled a remarkable group of fellow musicians from both U.S. co...

John Beasley: Bedtime Voyage (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music July 09, 08

Everybody from Ayler to Zappa has a tribute band. We love to pay our respects to the masters of the past. But how d...

David Sanborn (with Eric Clapton): I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music August 18, 08

You don't often find Eric Clapton guesting on a jazz CD, but the heavy blues emphasis on this new David Sanborn relea...

Bob Dorough: I Get the Neck of the Chicken (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 12, 08

Bob Dorough probably first heard "I Get the Neck of the Chicken" while in the Army during World War II. Introduced in...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL BOB DOROUGH

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Jonatha Brooke: My Flowers Grow Green (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music December 10, 08

While this track isn't jazz in the strict sense (so you sticklers will just have to relax), the underlying spirit cer...

Roy Haynes: James (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music December 23, 08

Since Roy Haynes and Pat Metheny had joined together (in a trio with Dave Holland) for the captivating Question and A...

James Carter (with Heaven on Earth): Diminishing (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music September 02, 09

What does it mean when a group of crack jazz musicians gets together to make a thinly-disguised rock record? Is it a...

Jeff "Tain" Watts: Return of the Jitney Man (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music January 30, 09

If you didn't know the name of the bandleader, you might think the CD title Watts referred to the high-voltage lumine...

Donald Harrison: Christopher Jr. (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music February 10, 09

On a CD that mixes jazz with hip-hop, reggae, New Orleans funk and second line, calypso, blues, the Motown sound...

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