Christian McBride

• 2-LP GATEFOLD JACKET

The Movement Revisited: A Musical Portrait of Four Icons is culminating documentation of a richly inspired piece – lauding four key figures of the Civil Rights Movement: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Rosa Parks and Muhammad Ali.

Marshaling his ever-sharpening skills as a composer, arranger, conductor, musician and lyricist, Christian McBride has created a historically and culturally illuminating five-part suite for an 18-piece big band, chorus and narrators that places the motivating forces as well as the goals of the Civil Rights Movement within a powerfully relevant artistic context. It is a one-from-the-heart project McBride was, apparently, destined to undertake.

This recording of The Movement Revisited marks the addition of a fifth movement, “Apotheosis,” which acknowledges the election of Barack Obama as the first African American President of the United States.

PERSONNEL:

• Todd Bashore – (alto saxophone)
• Steve Wilson - (alto saxophone, flute)
• Carl Maraghi - (baritone saxophone)
• Christian McBride - (bass)
• Doug Purviance - (bass trombone)
• Terreon Gully - (drums)
• Dion Graham, Sonia Sanchez, Vondie Curtis Hall, Wendell Pierce - (narrator)
• Geoffrey Keezer - (piano)
• Loren Schoenberg - (tenor saxophone)
• Ron Blake - (tenor and, Soprano saxophone)
• James Burton, Michael Dease, Steve Davis - (trombone)
• Darryl Shaw, Frank Greene, Freddie Hendrix, Lew Soloff, Ron Tooley - (trumpet)
• Warren Wolf- (vibes, tambourine)
• Alicia Olatuja (track 6), J.D. Steele (tracks: 9, 12) - (vocals)

TRACKS:

• LP ONE

• 01. Overture/The Movement Revisited
• 02. Sister Rosa - Prologue
• 03. Sister Rosa
• 04. Rosa Introduces Malcolm
• 05. Brother Malcolm - Prologue
• 06. Brother Malcolm
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• LP TWO

• 01. Malcolm Introduces Ali
• 02. Ali Speaks
• 03. Rumble in the Jungle
• 04. Rosa Introduces MLK
• 05. Soldiers (I Have a Dream)
• 06. A View from the Mountaintop
• 07. Apotheosis: November 4th, 2008