The Movement Revisited:
A Musical Portrait of Four Icons

Artist: Christian McBride

Title: The Movement Revisited: A Musical Portrait of Four Icons

Release Date: February 7, 2020 (Vinyl release date: January 13, 2023)

Format(s):

• CD: 4-panel digipak with booklet

• LP: 2-LP regular weight black vinyl in gatefold jacket

• Digital: High-res 96/24

Genre(s): Jazz

Project Description:
Christian McBride’s The Movement Revisited: A Musical Portrait of Four Icons is culminating documentation of a richly inspired piece – lauding four key figures of the Civil Rights Movement: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Rosa Parks and Muhammad Ali.

Marshaling his ever-sharpening skills as a composer, arranger, conductor, musician and lyricist, McBride has created a historically and culturally illuminating five-part suite for an 18-piece big band, chorus and narrators that places the motivating forces as well as the goals of the Civil Rights Movement within a powerfully relevant artistic context. It is a one-from-the-heart project McBride was, apparently, destined to undertake.

This recording of The Movement Revisited marks the addition of a fifth movement, “Apotheosis,” which acknowledges the election of Barack Obama as the first African American President of the United States.