The Jazzcat

The

Christian McBride Band and The John Scofield Trio deliver an exciting and

innovative evening of jazz music at the Cerritos Center

for the Performing Arts on Saturday, November 6, 8:00 PM.

TWO JAZZ GREATS – ONE MEMORABLE NIGHT!

 

 

            CERRITOS, CA – The

Christian McBride Band and The John Scofield Trio deliver an exciting and

innovative evening of jazz music at the Cerritos Center

for the Performing Arts on Saturday, November 6, 8:00 PM.  Tickets

are now on sale at the Cerritos

Center for the Performing

Arts Ticket Office, by calling (800) 300-4345 or online at www.cerritoscenter.com.   Ticket prices range from $45-$25.  Patrons can also subscribe for the entire

jazz series at the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts including “Directions

in Music” featuring Herbie Hancock, Michael Brecker and Roy Hargrove (Wednesday,

February 9); the Concord Jazz Festival featuring Oleta Adams, Diane Schuur,

Karrin Allyson and Sara Gazarek (Friday, March 11); and Tierney Sutton Trio and

The John Pizzarelli Trio (Friday, April 22); and pay only $140 for top-priced

seating for all four events – a savings of 30%.

            In the fall

of 1989, saxophonist Bobby Watson introduced a 17-year-old whiz kid from Philadelphia to the world

of jazz.  Over a decade later, the kid, Christian McBride, has arguably become

the most acclaimed acoustic and electric bassist to emerge from the jazz world.  While jazz lies at the root of Christian’s

accomplishments, it is his passion for music that has made him an esteemed

bassist, composer, educator, and bandleader, working with everyone from Chick

Corea and Pat Metheny, to Kathleen Battle, D’Angelo, Diana Krall, Quincy Jones and

Sting.  Over the past decade, he has

released four solo recordings and has been featured on over 200 additional

recordings and toured with such luminaries as David Sanborn, George Duke, McCoy

Tyner, George Benson and many others. 

McBride has even been featured on the big screen, playing his bass in

the Robert Altman film Kansas City.

            An

established musician throughout his teens, it wasn’t until legendary bassist

Ray Brown heard McBride in 1991 that his career headed for the limelight.  Brown asked him to join “SuperBass,” a group Brown

tailor-made for McBride and John Clayton. 

By the following year, McBride was named Rolling Stone’s “Hot Jazz Artist of 1992.”  The next year, he truly proved the truth of

this honor by joining Pat

 

 

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Metheny’s “Special Quartet” which included the late, great

drum master Billy Higgins and saxophonist Joshua Redman.  He later recorded and toured with Redman in

his band Moodswing. 

            In 1994

McBride signed with Verve Records, recording his first CD as a leader, Get To It, one of the biggest selling

jazz records of 1995.   More successes

and accolades followed.  Philadelphia’s Mellon Jazz

Festival of 1994 was dedicated to McBride (along with Lee Morgan,

posthumously).  He received a commission

from Jazz at Lincoln Center to compose Bluesin’

In Alphabet City, performed by Wynton Marsalis with the Lincoln Center

Jazz  Orchestra, featuring McBride as

special guest.

            In 1996 he

released his sophomore recording Number

Two Express, which featured special guests Chick Corea and Jack

DeJohnette.  Two years later McBride’s

third Verve release A Family Affair

showcased his talents as a traditional jazz musician as well as his talents on electric

bass.  Later that year, the Portland Arts

Society and the National Endowment for the Arts awarded McBride with a

commission to write The Movement,

Revisited, a dramatic musical portrait of the civil rights struggle of the

1960s.

            The new

millennium brought his most successful album SCI-FI, followed by The

Philadelphia Experiment in 2001. 

Later that year, Sting invited McBride to join his new band, making him

one of those rare performers from the jazz world to cross over to the pop

scene, recording on Sting’s 2001 hit CD/DVD, All This Time.

            In a career

that has spanned more than three decades, Grammy-nominated guitarist John Scofield continues to shine as one

of the jazz’s top guitarists.  With his

distinctive sound, Scofield is a masterful jazz improviser whose music runs the

gamut of fusion, soul jazz, R&B and rock. 

            At the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts, Scofield

will be joined by keyboardist Larry

Goldings and drummer Jack DeJohnette.  The trio’s set will be a tribute to the great

drummer Tony Williams’s group Lifetime. 

Williams’ death was a shock to the jazz world, when he suffered  a heart attack following a routine gall

bladder surgery in 1997.  A major drummer

for 35 years, Williams’ is best remembered for the open-style that he created

while with the Miles Davis Quintet in the 1960s and for his fusion band  Lifetime, a trio with Larry Young and John

McLaughlin. 

            After

attending Berklee

College in the early ‘70s,

Scofield joined with Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker for a recording at Carnegie

Hall.  He joined the Billy Cobham/George

Duke band for the next two years.  In

1977 he recorded with Charlie Mingus and later joined the Gary Burton Quartet

and the Dave Liebman Quintet.

            While his

own early sessions as a leader were funk-oriented, Scofield continued to build

a strong jazz following, recording and touring with Miles Davis from

1982-1985.  Since that time he has led

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own groups, played with the band Bass Desires, and recorded

frequently as a leader for Gramavision and Blue Note Records, featuring such

major players as Charlie Haden, Jack DeJohnette, Joe Lovano, and Eddie Harris.

            Scofield

later jumped to the Verve Label, recording seven albums including the

Grammy-nominated UBERJAM in 2002, Up All Night in 2003 and his current

release En Route.  In addition to an active recording and

touring schedule, Scofield is an Adjunct Professor in the music department of New York University. 

Tickets are now on sale for the The

Christian McBride Band and the John Scofield Trio at the Cerritos Center

for the Performing Arts on Saturday, November 6, 8:00 PM.  For

tickets or more information, call (800) 300-4345 or go online to www.cerritoscenter.com.

 

Event:                          

The

Christian McBride Band

                                   

The

John Scofield Trio

                                   

Theater:                       

Cerritos Center

for the Performing Arts

12700 Center

Court Drive,

Cerritos

 

Date:                           

Saturday, November 6, 8:00 PM

                                   

Ticket Prices:                $45/$35/$25

 

Ticket Information:        Tickets

available only at the Cerritos

Center for the Performing

Arts Ticket Office, at www.cerritoscenter.com or by calling (800)

300-4345 or (562) 916-8500.