The Movement Revisited: A Musical Portrait of Four Icons, by eight-time GRAMMY Award winner Christian McBride, will be released on vinyl for the early next year on Mack Avenue Records.
Featuring arrangements for big jazz band, small jazz group, and gospel choir as well as four narrators who convey the pain, pathos, and ultimately hope of the struggle through the words and writings of four iconic figures: Rosa Parks, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Muhammad Ali, and Malcolm X. This album is a sweeping four-part suite honoring the civil rights movement. Pre-orders for the album’s vinyl edition can be made right now here.
Furthermore, along with co-writers Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau, and Brian Blade, McBride garnered his 16th GRAMMY nomination this week for the album Long Gone in the category of Best Jazz Instrumental Album.
McBride will start a fresh two-week residency at the Village Vanguard in New York City on November 28. For a complete schedule of tour dates, see below.
The Movement Revisited is the product of a 20-year, continuously developing project that was first released in 2020. What would eventually constitute a significant portion of McBride’s life’s work got started in 1998 with the help of a musical commission from the Portland (Maine) Arts Society. The commission’s only requirement was that it must include a choir. Christian McBride explains, “At the time, I dubbed it a musical picture of the Civil Rights Movement. I pondered those moments and made the decision that I wanted to capture their spirit and mood rather than attempt to create a history of the movement.
The Movement Revisited’s initial composition, for simply a quartet and gospel choir, was composed number of years ago and it merely a sketch at what it would eventually develop into. The Detroit Jazz Festival asked him to expand the suite to include the words of the recently-elected President Obama, which resulted in the creation of the fifth and final section of the suite, “Apotheosis, November 4th, 2008.”
Christian McBride 2022/2023 Tour Dates
2022
- 11/29 – 12/04 – New York, NY
- 12/06 – 12/11 – New York, NY
2023
- 01/06 – Fort Lauderdale, FL
- 01/13 – Fort Lauderdale, FL
- 02/02 – Northridge, CA
- 02/03 – Scottsdale, AZ
- 02/11 – St. Augustine, FL
- 02/17 – Toronto, ON
- 02/24 – Fort Collins, CO
- 02/25 – Salt Lake City – UT
- 02/26 – Boulder, CO
- 03/03 – Houston, TX
- 03/04 – San Antonio, TX
- 03/21 – Minneapolis, MN
- 03/22 – Minneapolis, MN
- 03/23 – Chicago, IL
- 03/24 – Detroit, MI
- 03/28 – Geneva, NY
- 03/30 – Knoxville, TN
- 03/30 – Wilmington, DE
- 03/31 – Richmond, VA
- 04/29 – Irvine, CA
