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El Niño, Metropolitan Opera — John Adams’s Nativity tale given all-star cast
...This concrete human element is lost in the visual feast of the production, and even an atheist can find the lack of representation of Christian values in a Nativity performance puzzling....
April 25, 2024
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Christian McBride’s New Jawn at Ronnie Scott’s, London — creativity put to the test
...Bassist Christian McBride launched his piano-free “New Jawn” project with an album of the same name in 2018 and released a follow-up, Prime, early this year....
October 17, 2023
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
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Five stars for the Met’s Tannhäuser, despite climate-protest disruption
...There are four main characters and the conflicts run between them rather than with fate, as in other Wagner operas; the minstrel Tannhäuser, the knight Wolfram (baritone Christian Gerhaher, making his house...
December 4, 2023
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Christian McBride’s trio at Wigmore Hall — three strong personalities play as one
...American bassist Christian McBride is a jazz polymath whose current projects range from big-band modern jazz to high-energy contemporary funk and the left-field piano-free quartet New Jawn....
July 18, 2023
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Die Erdfabrik at the Ruhrtriennale — multimedia performance is both clever and vacuous
...Sophie Lücke does remarkable things to her double bass....
August 14, 2023
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Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau, Brian Blade and Christian McBride reunite as Moodswing at the Barbican
...Christian McBride on double bass was equally commanding and raised the house repeatedly, once with a handful of twiddles decorating a surge of walking bass....
November 16, 2022
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
ReviewAlbums
Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau, Christian McBride and Brian Blade: LongGone album review — impressive dialogues
...The light melody of “Disco Ears” comes next, played by soprano sax and built over a bustle of Christian McBride double bass....
September 9, 2022
ReviewMusic
Five stars for Lohengrin — outstanding singing and indelible images in new Met production
...Bass Günther Groissböck sang King Heinrich with power, fine articulation and a natural, near-chummy expression....
February 27, 2023
Music
Brian Eno: why I sculpt sound
...From Cage I moved on to Morton Feldman, Christian Wolff, Cornelius Cardew and the whole experimental music scene....
October 6, 2023
Books
What to read in 2024
...NON-FICTION JANUARY Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J Bass (Picador/Knopf) A magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s wartime leaders — the largely overlooked...
December 28, 2023
ReviewAlbums
Mali Obomsawin tells a tale of Indigenous cultural survival in Sweet Tooth
...The six tracks also feature bass, drums, scratchy Captain Beefheart-style guitar and singing....
November 4, 2022
ReviewAlbums
Trumpeter Theo Croker displays his sonic mastery in Love Quantum
...The fleshed-out stabs of “Cosmic Intercourse” bounce with beats crafted by drummer Chris Dave, and “Humanity” introduces a trace of walking bass swing....
July 22, 2022
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Christian McBride delivers rhythmic thrust in Live at the Village Vanguard
...The speed-of-light set closer, McBride’s “Stick and Move”, finds the leader’s fingerpicked bass duelling with Carl Allen’s crash-and-splash drums....
January 7, 2022
HTSI
Notting Hill hip? How the west was (re)won
...Created by chef Christian Onia, the slick, pale-wood interior is beautifully presented and the menu sings with flavour....
November 28, 2022
HTSI
Great outdoor art to see this summer
...The Soho Photography Quarter (or SPQ), which will focus on solo artist presentations twice a year, launches with Christian Thompson’s Being Human Human Being, with light projections, soundscapes, hanging...
June 24, 2022
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
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The Chicago Experiment — well-worked jams from the Windy City
...Opener “The Chant” has wicked layered horns and funky fizz-and-pop lines from bass guitarist Darryl Jones, who has worked with Miles Davis, Sting and The Rolling Stones....
January 28, 2022
ReviewMusic
Pole-dancers, dissidents and Joyce DiDonato in a triumphant Theodora
...The British tenor Ed Lyon (Didymus’s friend Septimius), the Polish bass Gyula Orendt (the Roman ambassador Valens) and the Royal Opera chorus all become vital elements....
February 1, 2022
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Coldplay are at their happiest and clappiest on Music of the Spheres
...“I got my hands up shaking just to let you know,” he cries.The language is fuzzily Christian....
October 13, 2021
ReviewAlbums
R+R=Now deliver a thrilling, supercharged live album
...Casey Benjamin’s mournful vocoder vocals, Terrace Martin’s pithy alto sax and Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah’s soaring trumpet are thrilling leads....
February 19, 2021
ReviewAlbums
Alonzo Demetrius: Live From the Prison Nation — a critique of mass incarceration
...Young American trumpeter Alonzo Demetrius stands in a modernist tradition that stretches from be-bop pioneers to the likes of Theo Croker and Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah today....
January 1, 2021
ReviewAlbums
Janinah Burnett: Love the Color of Your Butterfly — an unlikely musical blend pays off
...In contrast, the traditional “Keep Your Eyes on the Prize” is sparsely accompanied by double bass and tambourine....
February 12, 2021
ReviewAlbums
Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau, Christian McBride and Brian Blade: RoundAgain — relaxed drive
...Pianist Brad Mehldau to cement post-Beatles pop in jazz, Christian McBride as a bassist/bandleader without peer and Brian Blade as the world-class drummer in Wayne Shorter’s freewheeling quartet....
July 10, 2020
ReviewMusic
Royal Opera and London Philharmonic offer different approaches to pandemic-era opera
...The one who really lifted the performance was bass Gerald Finley, singing with a generous depth of emotion that made the King of Scotland for once a linchpin of the opera....
November 24, 2020
FT Globetrotter
Miami Beach: an insider guide
...One oasis of calm is The Bass museum on 21st Street and Collins Avenue....
November 10, 2021
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Nelson Kempf: Family Dollar — liminal and strange
...A bass synthesiser periodically wells up like a creature rising from the deep. Some might find the songs’ lack of obvious structure challenging....
July 24, 2020

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