It was performed in Los Angeles at Walt Disney Concert Hall, and praised by the Los Angeles Times as "a work that was admirable - to paraphrase Dr. For its tenth anniversary, The Movement, Revisited was expanded, rewritten, and revamped to feature an 18-piece big band and four actors/speakers in addition to the gospel choir. The piece was commissioned by the Portland (ME) Arts Society and the National Endowment for the Arts, and performed throughout New England in the fall of 1998 with McBride's quartet and a 30-piece gospel choir. In 1998 he combined roles, composing The Movement, Revisited, a four-movement suite dedicated to four of the major figures of the civil rights movement: Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, and Dr. He is also a respected educator and advocate, first noted in 1997 when he spoke on former President Bill Clinton's town hall meeting "Racism in the Performing Arts." He has since been named Artistic Director of the Jazz Aspen Snowmass Summer Sessions (2000), co-director of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem (2005), and the Second Creative Chair for Jazz of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association (2005). for the Christian McBride Trio’s Grammy Award-nominated album Out Here. As his career entered its third decade, McBride added the role of mentor, tapping rising stars pianist Christian Sands and drummer Ulysses Owens, Jr. In 2009 McBride began focusing this same energy through a more traditional lens with the debut of his critically-acclaimed Inside Straight quintet, and again with the Christian McBride Big Band, whose 2012 release The Good Feeling won the Grammy for Best Large Ensemble Jazz Album.
Part excursion, part education, the CMB is a vehicle built on a framework of experience and powered by unfettered creativity: a mesmerizing dance on the edge of an electro-acoustic fault line. Praised by writer Alan Leeds as "one of the most intoxicating, least predictable bands on the scene today," the CMB - saxophonist Ron Blake, keyboardist Geoffrey Keezer, and drummer Terreon Gully - have been collectively evolving McBride's all-inclusive, forward-thinking outlook on music through their incendiary live shows, as chronicled on 2006’s Live at Tonic. In 2000 the lessons of the road came together in the formation of what would become his longest-running project, the Christian McBride Band. He was finding his voice, and others were learning to listen for it. Call it a change in curriculum: a decade’s worth of study through hundreds of recording sessions and countless gigs with an ever-expanding circle of musicians. There he was promptly recruited to the road by saxophonist Bobby Watson. Raised in a city steeped in soul, McBride moved to New York in 1989 to pursue classical studies at the Juilliard School.
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