JUN 8–19 | 39th Annual San Francisco Jazz Festival
Jun 11, 2022
Miner Auditorium
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Original show description below.
“One of the premier musicians of his generation” (DownBeat), four-time GRAMMY winning bassist and former SFJAZZ Resident Artistic Director Christian McBride is widely regarded as the standard-bearer for jazz bassists in the 21st century.
He returns with the West Coast debut of his new project — a quintet of rising young master instrumentalists including saxophonist Nicole Glover, guitarist Ely Perlman, pianist Mike King, and Oakland-born drummer Savannah Harris.
Among the most recorded artists in jazz history, McBride has appeared on well over 300 sessions by many of the most illustrious figures in jazz, including Sonny Rollins, McCoy Tyner, Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson, Chick Corea, and Pat Metheny, while also collaborating with artists as diverse as Kathleen Battle, Sting and Questlove of The Roots.
The bassist has led a procession of diverse groups in the studio and on tour since the mid-90s, most recently his hard-swinging Inside Straight quintet featuring SFJAZZ Collective vibraphonist Warren Wolf, and the Christian McBride Big Band, whose 2011 release The Good Feeling won that year’s GRAMMY for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album. With this fresh new quintet, as with all his projects, McBride brings a kaleidoscopic musical vision and a restless drive for fresh avenues of expression.
With this fresh new quintet, as with all his projects, McBride brings a kaleidoscopic musical vision and a restless drive for fresh avenues of expression.
CONCERT UNDERWRITERS
Allison Johnson and Ron Espeseth
The deep, dark-maple tone that Christian McBride elicits from an upright bass is one of jazz’s forthright pleasures.
The New York Times
The deep, dark-maple tone that Christian McBride elicits from an upright bass is one of jazz’s forthright pleasures.
The New York Times
Personnel
Christian McBride bass
Nicole Glover tenor saxophone
Ely Perlman guitar
Mike King piano
Savannah Harris drums
The musician with the technical, compositional and emotional skills to take jazz to another plane
Variety
Personnel
Christian McBride bass
Nicole Glover tenor saxophone
Ely Perlman guitar
Mike King piano
Savannah Harris drums
The musician with the technical, compositional and emotional skills to take jazz to another plane
Variety
Watch & Listen
A Christian McBride Situation
Science Fiction
A Christian McBride Situation
Gang Gang
A Christian McBride Situation
Science Fiction
A Christian McBride Situation
Gang Gang