Christian McBride: The Movement Revisited: A Musical Portrait Of Four Icons (2LP)

Five-part suite for an 18-piece big band, choir and narrator The final documentation of a richly inspired work that pays tribute to four key figures of the Civil Rights Movement: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, Malcolm X, Rosa Parks and Muhammad Ali. "The Movement Revisited: A Musical Portrait of Four Icons" is the concluding documentation of a richly inspired work that pays tribute to four key figures of the Civil Rights Movement: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, Malcolm X, Rosa Parks and Muhammad Ali. As composer, arranger, conductor, musician and lyricist, Christian McBride has created a historically and culturally insightful five-part suite for an 18-piece big band, choir and narrator that places the motivating forces and goals of the civil rights movement in a powerful, relevant artistic context. It is a project of the heart that McBride was seemingly destined to tackle. The album includes a fifth movement, "Apotheosis," which honors the election of Barack Obama as the first African-American president of the United States.