The movement revisited : a musical portrait of four icons

"Drawing upon the words of legendary civil rights leaders Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, and Muhammad Ali, Christian McBride offers a heartfelt large-ensemble tribute to the civil rights movement of the 1960s with 2020's The Movement Revisited: A Musical Portrait of Four Icons. The album is his third big-band recording, following his two Grammy-winning albums, 2011's The Good Feeling and 2017's Bringin' It. However, where those albums were robust and lively productions of post-bop jazz, The Movement Revisited is a more reverent and theatrical recording ... A powerful and deeply considered work that invokes not just the words, but also the ebullient spirit of the civil rights movement".

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"McBride's tasteful execution of the project more than matches the worthiness of his intentions".

"The suite is organized into four overlapping sections devoted to Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali and Martin Luther King Jr. In each, an actor or poet reads from speeches or writings by the historical figure ... But to a degree, he misses an opportunity: Movement treats the music a bit too much like a text of its own. For all their precision, these arrangements feel more like background and less like a force".