Music / jazz

The movement revisited : a musical portrait of four icons


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Summary: A culmination 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. Quotes from President Barack Obama are also included.

Reviews (3)


AllMusic

2020

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Matt Collar

2020

"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".


Record collector

505 (2020 May)

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Charles Waring

505 (2020 May)

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


DownBeat

2020 May

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Giovanni Russonello

2020 May

"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".