1994 · MoodSwing
MoodSwing (1994) captured these four in the middle of their separate ascents. Mehldau
Library — Double Bass
Christian McBride
5 albums as leader and 34 as sideman (1991–2022), each listed chronologically.
As Leader · 5
As Sideman · 34
Double Rainbow - The Music Of Antonio Carlos Jobim
Joe Henderson
1995 · Verve Records
SidemanDouble Bass
Blues For Pat (Live In San Francisco)
Joshua Redman Quartet Feat. Pat Metheny, Christian McBride & Billy Higgins
1995 · Jazz Door
SidemanDouble Bass
Sci-Fi
Christian McBride Band
2000 · Verve Records
SidemanDouble Bass / Electric Bass / Electric Piano / Keyboards
Bringin' It
Christian McBride Big Band
2017 · Mack Avenue Records
SidemanDouble Bass / Arranger / Producer
Notes on these albums · 6
Joshua Redman1995 · Gettin' to It
Christian McBride calls his teacher Ray Brown one of the few bassists whose time was strong enough to make drums feel unnecessary. On his 1995 debut Gettin' to It, McBride made that literal — a three-bass summit with Brown and elder statesman Milt Hinton carrying a track with no drummer at all.
— Statement stmt-christian-mcbride-on-ray-brown
2015 · Live at the Village Vanguard and 2 more
Christian McBride says he deliberately built his New Jawn band as the 180-degree opposite of his earlier trio with pianist Christian Sands and drummer Ulysses Owens Jr. — a group whose sound and character were already firmly established and well received. Rather than refine a winning formula, he chose to break from it.
— Statement stmt-christian-mcbride-on-christian-sands
1991 · Kenny Kirkland
Black Codes (From the Underground)
Charnett Moffett
Kenny Kirkland
Wynton Marsalis1995 · Parker's Mood
Roy Hargrove made his name in the early-1990s hard-bop revival as one of jazz's 'Young Lions,' with no real background in Latin music. Yet in 1997 it was Habana, a session with Cuban musicians, that won him a Grammy for Best Latin Jazz Performance.
Roy Hargrove1995 · Quartets - Live At The Village Vanguard
The credits on Afro-Desia (1975) put Joe Lovano in an organist's band, seven years before Psalm (1982) set him alongside the drummer's group he would be identified with. Looking backwards from the later reputation, that route in is easy to miss.
