{"id":10914,"date":"2016-09-17T00:01:40","date_gmt":"2016-09-17T07:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=10914"},"modified":"2018-10-25T20:23:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T03:23:57","slug":"christian-mcbride-and-inside-straight-people-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=10914","title":{"rendered":"Christian McBride and Inside Straight &#8211; People Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Any time that Grammy winning bassist, composer,arranger and bandleader Christian McBride steps into the studio or onto a stage he plays what could be called \u201cpeople music,\u201d but it\u2019s a particularly apt title for the second release by his hard-swinging acoustic quintet Inside Straight. Four years after Kind of Brown, the band\u2019s acclaimed debut album, People Music delivers a more road- tested, \u201clived-in\u201d Inside Straight, able to dig deep while projecting that ebullient vigor that has become McBride\u2019s trademark.\u201cPeople Music is my personal mantra as a musician,\u201d McBride says of the title. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Glbu4cBLpdQ?feature=player_detailpage\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes jazz musicians can get too caught up in their own heads; they get so serious and so caught up in their creativity that they\u2019re not bringing the people in. So I figure the best way to communicate is to let the people navigate where you should go.\u201d  The melody of the new album\u2019s opening track, \u201cListen to the Heroes Cry,\u201d evokes a modern spiritual, and was inspired by the parade of vapid performances on a music awards show McBride watched one night, which he described as all garish spectacle and absolutely no substance. Six of the album\u2019s eight tracks feature the core lineup of McBride, saxophonist Steve Wilson, vibraphonist Warren Wolf, pianist Peter Martin and drummer Carl Allen. <\/p>\n<p>The other two tracks substitute pianist Christian Sands and drummer Ulysses Owens, Jr., who have performed extensively with the band when Martin\u2019s touring schedule with Dianne Reeves or Allen\u2019s duties as Artistic Director of Jazz Studies at Juilliard keep them away from the bandstand. Sands and Owens also comprise McBride\u2019s new trio, which will make its recording debut later this year. While Christian McBride wrote most of the compositions, Wolf provides \u201cGang Gang,\u201d the name that a dancer (like Wolf\u2019s wife) would use in place of a musician\u2019s \u201cAfro- Cuban\u201d or \u201c12\/8\u201d to refer to the song\u2019s surging rhythm. <\/p>\n<p>Sands brings the bright-hued \u201cDream Train,\u201d while Martin offers the stealth funk of \u201cUnusual Suspects\u201d which recalls the groove of \u201cUsed \u2018Ta Could\u201d from Kind of Brown. Wilson\u2019s entrancing ballad \u201cMs. Angelou\u201d draws inspiration from the words and rhythms of the great poet while also exemplifying the saxophonist\u2019s own unique approach. Overall, this recording swings and swings hard.<\/p>\n<p>Reprinted with permission of&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.soundsoftimelessjazz.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Sounds of Timeless Jazz\" alt=\"Sounds of Timeless Jazz\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/sotjlogo.gif\" width=\"470\" height=\"70\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any time that Grammy winning bassist, composer,arranger and bandleader Christian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jazz_reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10914"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10918,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10914\/revisions\/10918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}