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Marcus Miller
dimanche 30 mai 2010
samedi 29 mai 2010
. Alain Clark - Colorblind . ( Extrait )
Alain Clarks self made musicvideo for ‘Love is everywhere’ taken from the album ‘Colorblind’, released on May 29th 2010. Alain created the video using only a FLIPCAM!
Love is everywhere by Alain Clark
Site Officiel Alain CLARK
vendredi 28 mai 2010
. Bassist Christian McBride, Plying the Bottom Groove.
Deborah Feingold
April 11, 2006
Christian McBride, a protégé of the late jazz great Ray Brown, compares playing the bass to being an offensive lineman in football:
"You're kind of not noticed until you're not there."
But he can't see himself playing anything else.
The acoustic bass is "probably just the most beautiful-sounding instrument," the Philadelphian says.
"Just something that low and that resonant, you see this huge instrument and this wood — this house — on stage.
You feel it more than you hear it."
You feel it more than you hear it."
As a young man, McBride hauled his double bass up to New York City.
He started at the Juilliard School but by 19, he was recording with the likes of Wynton Marsalis and Joe Henderson.
He since has played with jazz icons including McCoy Tyner and has toured with Sting.
Growing up, McBride remembers his mother showing him dance steps by the Temptations and seeing his father, bassist Lee Smith, performing with Cuban-born percussionist Mongo Santamaria.
During the recording of his first CD, 1995's Gettin' To It, McBride was joined by legendary jazz bassists Brown and Milt Hinton.
During one session, Brown told Hinton not to go easy on the young McBride.
"They had no mercy on me whatsoever, and I loved every minute of it," McBride says.
As one of a generation of "young lions" who came of age in the 1990s, McBride crosses easily from more traditional jazz forms into the fusion sounds of Weather Report, and pop — touring and recording with Sting and Diana Krall.
McBride says he encourages his own band members to bring their own styles to the music.
"Whatever musical ideas you have, no matter how disparate they may seem, bring 'em.
If you like listening to cartoon music, I want you to play cartoon music. (If) that's what you're hearing, that's what you're feeling, do that."
McBride often wonders how he could build upon his predecessors' works on the bass.
"Nobody's ever going to groove harder playing straight ahead than Ray Brown," he says. "
No one's going to groove any funkier ever than Bootsy Collins or Larry Graham (Sly & the Family Stone).
You start thinking,' Man, what's left?'
You start thinking,' Man, what's left?'
"But if I'm going to make some kind of contribution to the world of music, I have a feeling it's going to be rooted in the groove underneath — the bottom."
Features in this series are produced by David Schulman and NPR's Jeffrey Freymann-Weyr.
jeudi 27 mai 2010
. Christian McBride And Inside Straight On JazzSet .
May 27, 2010
Recording by Timothy Powell of Metro Mobile; Surround Sound remix by Duke Markos. Thanks to Terri Pontremoli, executive and artistic director of the Detroit Jazz Festival every Labor Day weekend in the Motor City.
David Tallacksen
Christian McBride performs at the Detroit International Jazz Festival.
Set List
"Rainbow Wheel" (McBride)
"Theme for Kareem" (Freddie Hubbard)
"Star Beam" (McBride)
"Sophisticated Lady" (Duke Ellington)
"Stick & Move" (McBride)
"Brother Mister (except)" (McBride)
Personnel
Christian McBride, bass
Steve Wilson, saxophones
Warren Wolf, vibes
Peter Martin, piano
Carl Allen, drums
mercredi 26 mai 2010
. For Senor Blues: A Horace Silver Tribute .
John Abbott
Bassist Christian McBride organized the tribute to Horace Silver, who was in the audience watching.
Francis Wolff/Mosaic Images
Horace Silver, during a recording session for Blue Note records.
June 20, 2008
Bassist Christian McBride is the creative chair for jazz at the Los Angeles Philharmonic – which means he gets to put together programs at Walt Disney Concert Hall with music he loves.
One of the musicians he loves most is jazz pianist and composer Horace Silver.
"Horace Silver's music has always represented what jazz musicians preach but don't necessarily practice, and that's simplicity," McBride says.
"It sticks to the memory; it's very singable. It gets in your blood easily; you can comprehend it easily. It's very rooted, very soulful."
"It sticks to the memory; it's very singable. It gets in your blood easily; you can comprehend it easily. It's very rooted, very soulful."
Set List
- "Peace"
- "Senor Blues"
- "Nica's Dream"
- "The Jody Grind"
- "Doodlin'"
- "Filthy McNasty"
- "Song for My Father"
In a career that's spanned more than 50 years, Silver has performed with great jazz instrumentalists such as Stan Getz, Lester Young, Miles Davis, and Art Blakey.
The pianist was one of the first to combine R&B and gospel with jazz to create a style called hard bop.
A legion of all-stars gathered at Walt Disney Concert Hall to celebrate Silver's music.
Artists such as Joe Lovano, Tom Harrell, and Randy Brecker took turns performing some of Silver's compositions for quintet, while pianist Cedar Walton played Silver's part on the piano.
The performance also featured vocals from Andy Bey and Dee Dee Bridgewater.
The performance also featured vocals from Andy Bey and Dee Dee Bridgewater.
But there was one musician that McBride was determined to add to the evening's line-up: drummer Roger Humphries.
McBride says he had to track him down.
McBride says he had to track him down.
"Roger Humphries has been such a legendary underworld figure for so many years,"
McBride says.
McBride says.
"I mean, he's one of those kind of guys where he sounded so great on all those Horace Silver records, but he moved back to Pittsburgh over 30 years ago.
And, you know, he just stopped traveling. Nobody had really heard from him, except people in Pittsburgh.
So it was time for him to make his comeback on the national scene. So Roger came in and just sounded so good, sounded so good –- I was really honored to play with him."
And, you know, he just stopped traveling. Nobody had really heard from him, except people in Pittsburgh.
So it was time for him to make his comeback on the national scene. So Roger came in and just sounded so good, sounded so good –- I was really honored to play with him."
Silver doesn't play anymore, so he watched from the audience, as many of his former colleagues played in his honor.
"I figured that so many of Horace Silver's former musicians are still alive and sounding great, why not put 'em back together again?" McBride says.
Performers
- Christian McBride, bass
- Cedar Walton, piano
- Tom Harrell, trumpet
- Charles Tolliver, trumpet
- Randy Brecker, trumpet
- George Coleman, sax
- Bennie Maupin, sax
- Joe Lovano, sax
- Roger Humphries, drums
- Andy Bey, vocals
- Dee Dee Bridgewater, vocals
mardi 18 mai 2010
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