Christian McBride - Prime

[mjzee]

Release date February 24:

Christian McBride's New Jawn - trumpeter Josh Evans (Jackie McLean, Cedar Walton, Rasheid Ali), saxophonist and bass clarinetist Marcus Strickland (Roy Haynes, Jeff "Tain" Watts, Chris Dave, Bilal, Robert Glasper), and drummer Nasheet Waits (Jason Moran, Joe Lovano, John Medeski) - is back with their highly anticipated sophomore album, Prime, the follow-up from McBride's GRAMMY nominated Philly-centric named group. Featuring original compositions from each band member as well as fresh takes on songs from Sonny Rollins, Ornette Coleman and Larry Young, this group offers an exhilarating space of exploration for the 8-time GRAMMY Award-winning McBride to stretch his veteran wings.

[Guy Berger]

On 2/10/2023 at 7:07 PM, mjzee said:

Release date February 24:

Christian McBride's New Jawn - trumpeter Josh Evans (Jackie McLean, Cedar Walton, Rasheid Ali), saxophonist and bass clarinetist Marcus Strickland (Roy Haynes, Jeff "Tain" Watts, Chris Dave, Bilal, Robert Glasper), and drummer Nasheet Waits (Jason Moran, Joe Lovano, John Medeski) - is back with their highly anticipated sophomore album, Prime, the follow-up from McBride's GRAMMY nominated Philly-centric named group. Featuring original compositions from each band member as well as fresh takes on songs from Sonny Rollins, Ornette Coleman and Larry Young, this group offers an exhilarating space of exploration for the 8-time GRAMMY Award-winning McBride to stretch his veteran wings.

Listening to this on Spotify.  Was not what I expected - fairly adventurous freebop.

[Rabshakeh]

I had mixed views on this one. I thought that it succeeded on around half the tracks, but there are quite a lot of sections where I felt the soloists missed a piano.

[randyhersom]

Obsequious is an all time favorite tune.  Hope they play it at Big Ears.