Christian McBride - Bringin' It - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Historic collection featuring the very first recordings by one of Blues music's most influential guitarists and singers, Albert King. Recorded in 1953 in Chicago, these tracks mark the beginning of one the greatest careers in Blues. All selections newly remastered.

The hardest-working man in showbiz, three time Grammy.-award winner Christian McBride brings back another installment of his acoustic jazz group, Inside Straight. This sojourn is augmented by a couple youngsters on the rise Ulyssess Owens, Jr.. and Christian Sands, whom play on two tracks the remainder handled with the usual aplomb by Messrs. Steve Wilson, Warren Wolf, Peter Martin and Carl Allen.

Christian McBride's The Movement Revisited A Musical Portrait of Four Icons is a culminating documentation of a richly inspired piece - lauding four key figures of the Civil Rights Movement Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Rosa Parks and Muhammad Ali. Marshaling his ever-sharpening skills as a composer, arranger, conductor, musician and lyricist, McBride has created a historically and culturally illuminating five-part suite for an 18-piece big band, chorus and narrators that places the motivating forces as well as the goals of the Civil Rights Movement within a powerfully relevant artistic context. It is a one-from-the-heart project McBride was, apparently, destined to undertake.