The Good Feeling

Studio album by Christian McBride Big Band

Released

September 27, 2011

Studio

Avatar Studios, NYC.

Genre

Jazz, big band

Length

70:27

Christian McBride Big Band chronology

Kind of Brown
(2009)

The Good Feeling
(2011)

Conversations with Christian
(2011)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
All About Jazz
AllMusic

The Good Feeling is the ninth studio album by American jazz bassis by Christian McBride and the debut one for his 18-piece Big Band. The record was released in 2011 via Mack Avenue label. The album won the Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album in 2012.

Philip Booth of Jazz Times noted "Christian McBride, one of two high-profile veteran bassists making debuts as big-band leaders this season (along with Ron Carter), offers 11 of his arrangements, a mix of original compositions and standards. McBride’s career orchestrating for large ensembles, as he recounts in the liner notes, began a little more than 15 years ago with a commission from the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. That piece, “Bluesin’ in Alphabet City,” is here, and it’s a charmer, a bluesy swinger with the trombone section’s melody answered by trumpet and saxophone rejoinders before opening up for solos, including a showcase for the leader’s speedy fingerboard flights and chopping-wood tone. Bluesy swagger also marks “In a Hurry,” originally heard on McBride’s debut album and here building into a ferocious, criss-crossing bone battle between Michael Dease and James Burton. It’s topped off with the leader’s quick-witted bowed solo, a shouted chorus, and an extended, aptly explosive drum solo from Ulysses Owens Jr."

Reviewers of SFJAZZ Center wrote "...until 2011’s The Good Feeling, McBride had never recorded an album with his own big band. As the title implies, it’s a swaggering, hard-swinging session featuring a cast of New York’s best sidemen, winning the GRAMMY Award for Best Large Ensemble Jazz Album in 2012.

All tracks written by Christian McBride except where noted.

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