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Christian McBride & Inside Straight - Live at the Village Vanguard

Christian McBride & Inside Straight - Live at the Village Vanguard

Christian McBride & Inside Straight Live at the Village Vanguard is Christian McBride’s twelfth release with Mack Avenue Music Group.

This recording can be thought of as a companion to the GRAMMY® Award-winning Christian McBride Trio Live at the Village Vanguard album released in 2015. Inside Straight is the quintet that inaugurated McBride’s collaboration with Mack Avenue Records (releasing Kind of Brown in 2009).

I recorded both live recordings of the bassist leading these two ensembles occurred in a consecutive two-week period in December of 2014 – a rare engagement offered to only the most venerated jazz artists by the most venerated jazz club in America.



Christian McBride's "Live At The Village Vanguard" wins a GRAMMY!

Christian McBride's "Live At The Village Vanguard" wins a GRAMMY!

I spent three lucky nights recording Christian McBride's Trio LAYING IT DOWN at The Village Vanguard, in partnership with my good friend Todd Whitelock. Christian was on bass, Christian Sands on piano and Ulysses Owens Jr. on drums. This album netted the 2016 Grammy for "Best Improvised Jazz Solo"!



Anoushka Shankar - Live At Carnegie Hall

This was a live concert recording of Anoushka Shankar performing with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. This was the world premiere of legendary virtuoso sitarist and composer Ravi Shankar's third Concerto for Sitar and Orchestra, performed by his daughter Anoushka Shankar.

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