''People Music'' is a studio album by American jazz bassist
Christian McBride
Christian McBride (born May 31, 1972) is an American jazz bassist, composer and arranger. He has appeared on more than 300 recordings as a sideman, and is an eight-time Grammy Award winner.
McBride has performed and recorded with a number of j ...
together with his band Inside Straight. The record was released on via the
Mack Avenue
Mack Avenue Records is an independent record label in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan.
Background
Mack Avenue was founded in 1999 by Gretchen Carhartt Valade, a jazz fan and chair of the American apparel company Carhartt. The company is a sponsor ...
label.
Background
''People Music'' is the second album for McBride's band Inside Straight. The album comes nearly four years after the band’s debut record, ''
Kind of Brown''. The present album features eight original compositions, four of which were written by McBride. His originals include the composition “New Hope’s Angel” written when
Whitney Houston
Whitney Elizabeth Houston (August 9, 1963 – February 11, 2012) was an American singer and actress. Nicknamed "The Voice", she is one of the bestselling music artists of all time, with sales of over 200 million records worldwide. Houston in ...
died. The core group performed six tracks; the other two pieces were recorded by a slightly different lineup.
Reception
Jeff Tamarkin
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Career
For 15 years Tamarkin was editor of '' Goldmine'', a magazine for record and CD collectors. Prior to that, he served as the first editor ...
of ''
Jazz Times
''JazzTimes'' is an American magazine devoted to jazz. Published 10 times a year, it was founded in Washington, D.C. in 1970 by Ira Sabin as the newsletter ''Radio Free Jazz'' to complement his record store.
Coverage
After a decade of growth ...
'' noted "Following a one-off big-band outing, this is his second with Inside Straight, the acoustic quintet he formed in 2009. Like that year’s Kind of Brown, People Music feels like a mental reboot, an opportunity for McBride to call the shots on his own terms with some handpicked compadres".
Corey Brown of Notreble said "The new album finds the quintet in hard-swing mode, delivering what they call “more road-tested, ‘lived-in’ Inside Straight” in an accessible way, and one that makes the audience part of the experience."
Track listing
Personnel
;Band
*Christian McBride – bass
*
Carl Allen – drums (2-6, 8)
*
Peter Martin – piano (2-6, 8)
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Ulysses Owens
Ulysses Owens Jr. (born December 6, 1982 in Jacksonville, Florida) is an American drummer and percussionist.
He was the drummer on vocalist Kurt Elling's Grammy-winning album '' Dedicated to You: Kurt Elling Sings the Music of Coltrane and Hart ...
– drums (1, 7)
*
Christian Sands
Christian Sylvester Sands (born May 22, 1989) is an American jazz pianist and composer. His third album for Mack Avenue Records, ''Be Water'', was released in 2020 and received a Grammy Award nomination in the Best Instrumental Composition catego ...
– piano (1, 7)
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Warren Wolf – vibes
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Steve Wilson – saxophones
;Production
*Keith H. Brown – illustrations
*Joe Ferla – engineer
*Randall Kennedy – creative director
*Chi Modu – photography
*Raj Naik – art direction, design
*Al Pryor – A&R
*Mark Wilder – mastering
Chart performance
References
External links
Christian McBride Discography
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2013 albums
Christian McBride albums
Mack Avenue Records albums