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Christian McBride closes The Tokyo Express with eight commanding choruses of acoustic bass on the album's title track at approximately 241 BPM, an improvisation that demonstrates virtuosity and swing in equal measure. Over the 12-bar blues in F, McBride brings the climactic performance to its conclusion with a solo that showcases the prodigious talent of a young musician who would become one of jazz's most celebrated bassists. Following nineteen-chorus and eighteen-chorus solos by Rickey Woodard and James Williams, McBride's eight-chorus feature caps one of the finest live jazz recordings of the 1990s with an authoritative bass statement that leaves no doubt about his extraordinary command of the instrument.
Christian McBride was 19 to 20 years old at the time.
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