Christian McBride: The Movement Revisited
Our regular host
Christian McBride happens to be a Grammy-winning bassist and composer, but he forbade us to feature him unless it was something special. It so happens that he's written a special work: Teaming with choral director JD
Steele, he's composed a bluesy and soulful oratorio for big band, gospel choir with soloists, and four speakers representing great figures of the
Civil Rights Movement.
It's called
The Movement Revisited, and is inspired by the written words and speeches of
Rosa Parks,
Malcolm X,
Muhammad Ali,
Martin Luther King, Jr. and
President Barack Obama.
Jazz Night In America follows McBride around his own hometown of
Philadelphia, speaking with the people who raised him at home and in the music, and features a performance of The Movement Revisited from the
Kimmel Center in downtown
Philly.
NPR's
Audie Cornish guests hosts this episode, featuring the
Christian McBride Big Band, the Philadelphia
Heritage Chorale, and orators
Sonia Sanchez,
Rev. Alyn
Waller,
Dion Graham and
Samuel Stricklen.
Hear the radio episode here: n.pr/1PDeq3Z
SKIP TO
1:52 - “
Sister Rosa”
13:40 -
Christian talks with his mentor Lovett
Hines
15:22 - “
Brother Malcolm”
26:08 - Christian talks with his mother
Renee McBride-Williams
29:35 - “
Rumble in the Jungle”
Recorded Nov. 21,
2015 @ The
Merriam Theater, Kimmel Center
MUSICIANS
Christian McBride (bass),
Geoffrey Keezer (piano),
Terreon Gully (drums),
Joel Ross (vibes),
Steve Wilson (alto sax),
Ron Blake (tenor sax),
Todd Bashore (alto sax), Dan Pratt (tenor sax),
Lauren Sevian (baritone sax), Jeffery
Miller (trombone),
Douglas Purviance (bass trombone),
Steve Davis (trombone),
Joseph McDonough (trombone), Nabate
Isles (trumpet),
Brandon Lee (trumpet),
Frank Greene (trumpet),
Benny Benack (trumpet), Samuel Stricklen (orator), Rev Waller (orator), Sonia Sanchez (orator), Dion Graham (orator)
PHILADELPHIA HERITAGE CHORALE
J.
Donald Dumpson (music director),
J.D. Steele (choir director, singer),
Waverly Alston, Jr., Melvin Berrian,
Eric Cook, Jr., Donald Dumpson, Shavonne Edwards,
Tiffany Godette,
Cali Graver, A.
China Guess,
Andrew Lawson,
Carrie Walker Lessene,
Hope McDowell, Tia McNeil, Tyrre Miller,
Janine Momasso, Garrick V.
Morgan,
Kimberly Quarles, Ja-Tun
Reid,
Melanie Richardson, Lauren
Robinson, Sue E.
Spencer,
Maria Caldwell Stoddard, Cyrile Trawick,
Monica Underwood, Philis E.
Williams
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