The Good Feeling is Christian McBride\u2019s big band debut project for Mack Avenue Records and it\u2019s a keeper. The programming is as well mixed as a great martini and includes tasteful renditions of three great songs sung by Christian\u2019s wife, vocalist Melissa Walker. Theirs is a revelatory collaboration that refines her sultry take on \u201cWhen I Fall In Love,\u201d hits its maker\u2019s mark on \u201cThe More I See You,\u201d and feels just as heartfelt as the original rendition of \u201cA Taste of Honey.\u201d This exceptional recording also features McBride\u2019s re-arrangements of previously released songs including \u201cBrother Mister,\u201d (from Kind of Brown) \u201cThe Shade of the Cedar Tree,\u201d \u201cIn A Hurry,\u201d (from Getting\u2019 To It) and \u201cScience Fiction\u201d (from Sci-Fi) as well as evolved readings of \u201cBroadway,\u201d and \u201cI Should Care.\u201d <\/p>\n
McBride gets straight down to business on \u201cShake and Blake,\u201d a song written for long-time band mate\/collaborator saxophonist Ron Blake. With a limitless variety of high and low brass soloing, the listener can immediately hear the sense of sustained momentum and immaculate execution of McBride\u2019s arrangements. He takes a bass solo that is followed by a full orchestral tutti that will have you swinging to the beat and before you realize it, you\u2019re languishing to another great solo on \u201cBroadway.\u201d This song conjures up the great Duke Ellington and like Ellington, McBride is a can-do musician who is driven by the urge to not just perform music but to create the contexts in which the experience of listening to it is most powerful. <\/p>\n
\u201cBluesin\u2019 In Alphabet City,\u201d focuses mostly on McBride\u2019s detailed explorations commissioned for the Jazz At Lincoln Center series back in 1995. As then, it still contains every color, timbre, and nuance that exists in the blues and features stellar trumpet solos and McBride’s exemplary bass soloing. Overall, you\u2019ll be quite blown away by the end of this program which is 70 minutes of some of the best big band music of this century. This music will leave you with The Good Feeling.<\/p>\n
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