Ursa Major, from left: Christian McBride, Savannah Harris, Nicole Glover, Mike King and Ely Perlman. Christian McBride, one of the world’s foremost bass players, has led several bands over a couple ...

CAPA grad Christian McBride has been busy. The jazz bassist recently released a new album, which features a song with Sting and Andy Summers from the Police. He took to the stage of Jimmy Kimmel Live ...

Not many people can work with artists such as James Brown, Paul McCartney, Sonny Rollins, Paul Simon, Celine Dion, Pat Metheny, John McLaughlin, and Sting – but Philadelphian-born bassist Christian ...

After a full day of providing jazz clinics to local high school bands and students from the CSUN jazz program, nine-time Grammy-winning bassist Christian McBride and his newest quintet, Ursa Major, ...

Brad Mehldau. (Photo by Elena Olivo/La Jolla Music Society) Each is a giant, indeed a legend, in his own right; on Oct. 19, telepathically feeding off the other’s mastery, they transcended their ...

Christian McBride — a jazz musician who has performed bass for the past 30 years — will bring his newest ensemble, Ursa Major, to the Hanover Inn on April 16 at 7:30 p.m. The sold-out performance is ...

Including a major concert at Jazz at Lincoln Center a few nights ago and both a new album and a new single, McBride has just given us samples of three completely different ensembles. Benny Green, ...

Now they’re taking their show on the road for very select tour dates! The legendary bassists will meld McBride’s jazz and R&B fusion with Meyer’s bluegrass and classical sensibilities for what is sure ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Bassist and bandleader Christian McBride has spent a considerable amount of his 52 years in the spotlight, and deservedly so. A restless practitioner of the ...

The bandstand was filled with players who presumably were very happy with the outcome of Super Bowl LIX. “This band is known as ‘Four of Us Are from Philly and One of Us Is Not,'” joked legendary ...

The Christian McBride Band has found a seamless blend of the elements -- electric and acoustic, funk and bebop, pop instrumentals and challenging suites. McBride has spent his 20s exploring the ...

For guitarist George Freeman, The Good Life has also been a long life. He was a nimble-fingered ninety-five-year-old plectrist when this splendid album was recorded in May and June 2022, which makes ...