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Hallelujah! Christian McBride is not one of those strait-laced, down-the-line neo-boppers after all. Here, the prodigiously talented young standup bassist proves that he is also an astoundingly gifted electric bassist, and that '70s-vintage funk and soul are every bit as close to his heart as '50s and '60s hard bop. On electric, McBride weaves inventive countermelodies around tenor sax Tim Warfield's lead lines, taking Jaco Pastorius' technique a step further in sheer speed and the ability to play really nasty funk patterns. The stylistic palette of the disc is much wider than anything McBride has done before as a leader, ranging from soul ballads (a lovely cover of Stevie Wonder's nearly forgotten "Summer Soft," Wonder-like vocals from Vesta on "...Or So You Thought") to powerful funk ("Brown Funk [For Ray]"), open-ended electric jazz-rock ("Wayne's World"), and yes, straight-ahead acoustic jazz grooving (on Sly Stone's "Family Affair"). Charles Craig excels on acoustic piano, Fender Rhodes, and Wurlitzer electric pianos; drummer Gregory Hutchinson fearlessly handles any stylistic curve balls that McBride throws at him; and guitarist Russell Malone and percussionist Munyungo Jackson turn up now and then. As produced by fellow polystylist George Duke, this is a most encouraging step out of the trap of lockstep bop for McBride.
© Richard S. Ginell /TiVo
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Christian McBride, MainArtist - THOM BELL, ComposerLyricist - LINDA CREED, ComposerLyricist - George Duke, Producer
℗ 1998 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Christian McBride, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - George Duke, Producer
℗ 1998 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Christian McBride, MainArtist - George Duke, Producer - Sly Stone, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1998 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Christian McBride, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - George Duke, Producer
℗ 1998 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Christian McBride, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - George Duke, Producer
℗ 1998 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Christian McBride, MainArtist - Stevie Wonder, ComposerLyricist - George Duke, Producer
℗ 1998 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Christian McBride, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - George Duke, Producer
℗ 1998 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Robert Bell, ComposerLyricist - George Brown, ComposerLyricist - Dennis Ronald Thomas, ComposerLyricist - Claydes Eugene Smith, ComposerLyricist - Christian McBride, MainArtist - George Duke, Producer - Ronald Nathan Bell, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1998 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Christian McBride, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - George Duke, Producer
℗ 1998 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Christian McBride, MainArtist - George Duke, Producer - Philip Bailey, ComposerLyricist - Stephen Devinney Beckmeier, ComposerLyricist - Albert Phillip McKay, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1998 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Album review
Hallelujah! Christian McBride is not one of those strait-laced, down-the-line neo-boppers after all. Here, the prodigiously talented young standup bassist proves that he is also an astoundingly gifted electric bassist, and that '70s-vintage funk and soul are every bit as close to his heart as '50s and '60s hard bop. On electric, McBride weaves inventive countermelodies around tenor sax Tim Warfield's lead lines, taking Jaco Pastorius' technique a step further in sheer speed and the ability to play really nasty funk patterns. The stylistic palette of the disc is much wider than anything McBride has done before as a leader, ranging from soul ballads (a lovely cover of Stevie Wonder's nearly forgotten "Summer Soft," Wonder-like vocals from Vesta on "...Or So You Thought") to powerful funk ("Brown Funk [For Ray]"), open-ended electric jazz-rock ("Wayne's World"), and yes, straight-ahead acoustic jazz grooving (on Sly Stone's "Family Affair"). Charles Craig excels on acoustic piano, Fender Rhodes, and Wurlitzer electric pianos; drummer Gregory Hutchinson fearlessly handles any stylistic curve balls that McBride throws at him; and guitarist Russell Malone and percussionist Munyungo Jackson turn up now and then. As produced by fellow polystylist George Duke, this is a most encouraging step out of the trap of lockstep bop for McBride.
© Richard S. Ginell /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 10 track(s)
- Total length: 01:05:54
- Main artists: Christian McBride
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Verve
- Genre: Jazz
© 1988 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc. ℗ 1998 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
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