The Movement Revisited: A Musical Portrait of Four Icons, Christian McBride
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.
Christian McBride: bass, composer, arranger
J.D. Steele: choral arranger, lead vocals on tracks 9 + 12
Alicia Olatuja: lead vocals on track 6
Sonia Sanchez narrates the words of Rosa Parks
Vondie Curtis-Hall narrates the words of Malcolm X
Dion Graham narrates the words of Muhammad Ali
Wendell Pierce narrates the words of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sonia Sanchez, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Dion Graham and Wendell Pierce narrate the words of President Barack
Obama
Voices Of The Flame: Marvel Allen, Shani P. Baker, Jeffrey S. Bolding, Jeff Hamer, Susann Miles, Deborah Newallo,
Eunice Newkirk, Claudine Rucker, Trevor Smith, Melissa Walker
Steve Wilson: alto saxophone, flute • Todd Bashore: alto saxophone • Ron Blake: tenor, soprano saxophone •
Loren Schoenberg: tenor saxophone • Carl Maraghi: baritone saxophone
Michael Dease: trombone • Steve Davis: trombone • James Burton: trombone • Doug Purviance: bass trombone
Lew Soloff: trumpet • Ron Tooley: trumpet • Frank Greene: trumpet • Freddie Hendrix: trumpet • Darryl Shaw:
trumpet
Warren Wolf: vibraphone, tambourine, timpani • Geoffrey Keezer: piano • Terreon Gully: drums
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