| Mcbride, Christian / Live At Tonic |
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| Album: | Live At Tonic | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Mcbride, Christian | Added: | Apr 2006 | |
| Label: | Ropeadope Music Entertain | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2006-06-11 | Pull Date: | 2006-08-13 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | Jul 16 | Jul 9 | Jul 2 | Jun 25 | Jun 18 |
| Airplays: | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Feb 01, 2011: | Rebop Hibiscus | 4. | Jul 14, 2006: | Memory Select Hibiscus | |
| 2. | Jan 04, 2011: | Fo at the Café Bohemian A-Flat Minor Jam | 5. | Jul 14, 2006: | Sunshine ... in the Afternoon Mwandishi Outcome Jam (w/ Charlie Hunter & Jenny Scheinmann) | |
| 3. | Jun 26, 2009: | Memory Select Technicolor Nightmare | 6. | Jul 07, 2006: | No Cover, No Minimum D Shuffle Jam |
| Album Review |
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| Craig Matsumoto Reviewed 2006-06-10 | ||
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Three disks of live sessions from a couple of special concerts held by bassist McBride at Tonic -- normally a Lower East Side haven for avant jazz, but here, home to some high-energy funky jamming. In addition to some nice grooves, you've got McBride directing the band from the stage, introducing special guests, and calling up band members. It's a bit cheesy in parts, but it gives the CDs a very "live" feel. DISK ONE -- Lots of funky energy and some electronic crossovers into fusion territory with lots of keys and occasional "outside the changes" soloing. 1- Fusion, bluesy jam, mid/fast. Sax & guitar solos. 2- More complex beat than #1, faster and kinda furious. Starts coolly. Ends w/spoken intro to track 3. 3- For Flip Wilson(!), a bouncy, energetic one. 4- Calmer, cooler, but still fairly fast. w/flute, for an easier sound 5- Warm, easygoing funk, a casually open midtempo. Opens w/bass solo. 6- Fusion! Cool electric sound 7- Slow fusion, sort of romantic. Eh. Ends w/intro to track 8 8- Sly, sneaky, spare, funky fusion. Bursts energetically after 7 minutes and eventually gets really fast and hard. Ends with band intro. DISK TWO -- Follows the same groove/jam pattern but with some spacey, untethered interludes thrown in. Track 1 is 33 minutes; the others segue to form one long jam 9- Half-hour jam that starts bouncy and happy, almost bucolic, and later gets into a more serious kind of groove, with some sparse and nearly avant-garde spots. Charlie Hunter shows up early; Jenny Scheinman after the halfway point. 10- Decent jam that takes a while to lift off. 11- Mellow, flute-led bit, mid/fast. 12- Spacey slow weirdness; actually I think *this* one, not track 5, hits the melody line that's taken from "Bitches Brew" 13- Midtempo and a little off-kilter. Starts w/last of track 4 weirdness 14- Quiet, spacey float. 2nd half: Groove returns; violin solo 15- Staggery mid/fast, a bit cerebral. Develops a strong groove with cool keyboards, and blazing guitar later 16- Slow, grinding, noisy weirdness! DISK THREE -- Adds some hip-hop and turntable sensibilities (DJ Logic, Scratch) and otherwise goes for the straight funk 17- Electric funk. McBride tosses out lots of band-member intros. Scratch, the human beat box, shows up around -11:00 for a "Make some noise y'all" solo. 18- Hip-hop mode (due to Scratch) and funky unison horns. 19- Long bass solo into a big funky section marked by loud, bright crisp horns. Ends w/ quiet bass solo that SEGUES into track 4 20- Funky shuffle beat, bit cooler than #3. Scratch reappears halfway through. Ends w/lengthy band intro. | ||
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