Il sito di news online Recordnet.com ha pubblicato una bella intervista al grande bassista Christian McBride, in occasione della sua partecipazione alla decima edizione del Brubeck Festival, che si svolge tra l'8 e l'11 aprile, di cui fu il direttore artistico nella prima edizione.
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Christian McBride knows all about playing that mentoring tune. His father and great-uncle helped start the jazz bass player off on all the right notes as a kid.
Nine years ago, he put those lessons to effective use as the initial artistic director at University of the Pacific's Brubeck Institute.
"First of all, I have to sit with the fact it's been 10 years," McBride, 37, said during a phone conversation from Montclair, N.J., where he and his wife, jazz singer Melissa Walker, live. "I'm sure it's gonna be just as loving as it was when I left."
McBride plays his stand-up bass Saturday night as part of the 10th anniversary Brubeck Festival at Pacific's Faye Spanos Concert Hall in Stockton.
McBride, one of jazz's top contemporary bassists and co-director of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, always has tried to follow the example set by his dad (Lee Smith) and great-uncle (Howard Cooper).
"I realize the reason I became a professional musician is because of all those great musicians I admired who took time out ... and came to workshops and played and showed they cared," McBride said. "I always said if I were in the same position, that's what I would do."
He did. In 2001, he and colleague JB Dyas, also a bassist, were working at an Aspen, Colo., jazz colony.
"We'd always had a good rapport," McBride said. "He told me he was taking over at the Brubeck Institute and wanted me to be artistic director. It made perfect sense.
"Then I got a call from Mr. Brubeck, relaying how pleased he was. To hear from the man himself was pretty cool."
So was the Philadelphia native's most recent encounter with Dave Brubeck, the 89-year-old Pacific graduate, composer and jazz piano virtuoso....
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Ecco un estratto dell'intervista:
Christian McBride knows all about playing that mentoring tune. His father and great-uncle helped start the jazz bass player off on all the right notes as a kid.
Nine years ago, he put those lessons to effective use as the initial artistic director at University of the Pacific's Brubeck Institute.
"First of all, I have to sit with the fact it's been 10 years," McBride, 37, said during a phone conversation from Montclair, N.J., where he and his wife, jazz singer Melissa Walker, live. "I'm sure it's gonna be just as loving as it was when I left."
McBride plays his stand-up bass Saturday night as part of the 10th anniversary Brubeck Festival at Pacific's Faye Spanos Concert Hall in Stockton.
McBride, one of jazz's top contemporary bassists and co-director of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, always has tried to follow the example set by his dad (Lee Smith) and great-uncle (Howard Cooper).
"I realize the reason I became a professional musician is because of all those great musicians I admired who took time out ... and came to workshops and played and showed they cared," McBride said. "I always said if I were in the same position, that's what I would do."
He did. In 2001, he and colleague JB Dyas, also a bassist, were working at an Aspen, Colo., jazz colony.
"We'd always had a good rapport," McBride said. "He told me he was taking over at the Brubeck Institute and wanted me to be artistic director. It made perfect sense.
"Then I got a call from Mr. Brubeck, relaying how pleased he was. To hear from the man himself was pretty cool."
So was the Philadelphia native's most recent encounter with Dave Brubeck, the 89-year-old Pacific graduate, composer and jazz piano virtuoso....
L'intervista integrale è a questo indirizzo.
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