Album Review: Christian McBride and Inside Straight, "Kind of Brown" (Mack Avenue)

Bassist Christian McBride [ tickets ] was one of the last "young lions" to graduate to bandleader status during jazz's last growth spurt in the early 1990s. Over the course of nine albums and 15 years as a frontman, he has delivered a series of projects that have a minimal relationship to one another, his latest being a stellar return to all acoustic instruments, but bearing little relation to his mid-'90s acoustic recordings for Verve. "Kind of Brown," his first album for Mack Avenue, is a p...

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