Get ready to rumble. This album will work out your sound system. Virtuosos Christian McBride and Edgar Meyer play double bass duets on their first joint album, “But Who’s Gonna Play the Melody?” The ...

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 ...

Christian McBride might be the hardest working man in show business, or at least the hardest working bass player in jazz. There are many reasons why people are driven to push themselves to their ...

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, ...

The term “New Jawn” derives from Philadelphia street slang. I couldn’t tell you what it means, only that it’s in the title of an outstanding ensemble led by Philly’s no. 1 bass-playing, bandleading, ...

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 ...

First things first: Christian McBride’s New Jawn is coming to Houston Friday, and it would be perfectly reasonable for any non-Philadelphian to ask: what is a jawn? “Most people who know me are not ...

Sara Wasserman could think of no one more perfect to honor the memory and music of her late father, the Grammy-winning bassist Rob Wasserman, than eight-time Grammy winner Christian McBride, the ...

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 ...

This image released by Mack Avenue Music Group shows "But Who’s Gonna Play The Melody?" by Christian McBride with Edgar Meyer. (Mack Avenue Music Group via AP) Get ready to rumble. This album will ...