Christian McBride
Christian Lee McBride ( born May 31, 1972 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ) is an American jazz bassist.
McBride played in his school rhythm and blues on the electric bass before the acoustic bass and jazz music turned to. From 1989 he studied at the Juilliard School of Music. In the 1990s, he collaborated on Joe Henderson's tribute albums Lush Life: With The Music of Antonio Carlos Jobim: The Music of Billy Strayhorn and Double Rainbow. He then played a short time with the bands of Bobby Watson, Benny Golson, Roy Hargrove and Freddie Hubbard, toured with the Benny Green Trio and has performed with Ray Brown at the Monterey Jazz Festival in 1994.
In 1995 he recorded his first album as a leader and then toured with his own band. For Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, he composed Blues in Alphabet City. McBride gives master classes at the Berklee School of Music and teaches at the Henry Mancini Institute. In addition to his work as a bandleader, he worked on more than two hundred albums as a sideman.
Discography
- Gettin ' to It with Roy Hargrove, Joshua Redman, Steve Turré, Cyrus Chestnut, Lewis Nash, Ray Brown and Milt Hinton, 1994
- Number Two Express with Kenny Barron, Gary Bartz, Mino Cinelu Chick Corea, Jack DeJohnette, Kenny Garrett, Steve Nelson, 1995
- Fingerpainting: The Music of Herbie Hancock with Nicholas Payton, Mark Whitfield, 1997
- A Family Affair with Tim Warfield, Charles Craig, Gregory Hutchinson, Russell Malone, Munyungo Jackson, Will Downing, Vesta, 1998
- Sci- Fi with Ron Blake, Shedrick Mitchell, Rodney Green, Herbie Hancock, Dianne Reeves, Toots Thielemans, James Carter, David Gilmore, 2000
- The Philadelphia Experiment with Ahmir Thompson, Uri Caine, Pat Martino, Jon Swana, Larry Gold, Aaron Luis Levinson, 2001
- Vertical Vision with Ron Blake, Geoffrey Keezer, Terreon Gully, David Gilmore, Danny Sadownick, 2003
- New York Time with Javon Jackson, Jimmy Cobb, Cedar Walton, 2006
- Day trip with Pat Metheny, Antonio Sanchez, 2008
- The Good Feeling, Christian McBride Big Band, 2011
- People Music, Christian McBride & Inside Straight, 2013