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Title - Ramon
Artist - Christopher McBride

For those unaware, Christopher McBride is a saxophonist based in Harlem whose work includes education, arranging and composition in addition to performance.

He has been slowly, but steadily turning heads with his ubiquitous work as an invaluable sideman since the mid-aughts. Now Christopher is gaining respect amongst fans, critics and his peers, as one of the most versatile saxophonists in the world.

His 2012 debut album, Quatuor de Force, certainly establishes his ability to front a group and write his own soulful, melodically indelible tunes.

Applauded for his ability to play in all music situations, McBride has the ability to unleash a fiery attack and serrated tone, but on his new album, he explores a more measured, mellow sound heavily influenced by contemporary R&B - with a strong shot of Cannonball Adderley�s post-bop sensuality - but his improvising is very rigorous and cogent.

Ramon (due out February 17th, 2023), is the second album by Grammy Nominee McBride that cover the entirety of his musical experiences through childhood.

Many genres intersect through the music, with a heavy emphasis on Swing. This album also explores different locations that have inspired McBride, from The Bronx in NYC down to New Orleans, and is also his first project released since moving to New York.

1. Lady D
2. Welcome
3. You Put A Smile On My Face (feat. Bobby Broom)
4. Bronx Unchained
5. Your Eyes Can�t Lie (feat. J. Hoard)
6. Intimacy (feat. Morgan Burns)
7. Postlude
8. Stand Your Ground, Pt. 1 - Suspicion
9. Stand Your Ground, Pt. 2 - Confrontation
10. Stand Your Ground, Pt. 3 - In Memoriam: The Ballad of Trayvon Martin
11. Dope (For The Steppers)
12. Girl Get �Em (feat. Kenny Bentley)
13. Your Eyes Can�t Lie (Instrumental)

This infectiously heartfelt new album opens on a track written for his mother, Dianna McBride, the fervently rambunctious Lady D and the mid-tempo, introductory soiree within Welcome, and they are followed seamlessly by the sweeping elegance of You Put A Smile On My Face (feat. Bobby Broom), the atmospherically-charged, eclectic Bronx Unchained, the late night, finger-snapping gossamer of Your Eyes Can�t Lie (feat. J. Hoard), and then we are brought the languishing beauty of Intimacy (feat. Morgan Burns) and the short, but sweet organic jam of Postlude.

Along next is a trilogy written just days after the not guilty verdict associated with the death of Trayvon Martin, and opens on the primal, sculptured appeal of the Stand Your Ground trilogy: Pt. 1 - Suspicion, Pt. 2 - Confrontation, and Pt. 3 - In Memoriam: The Ballad of Trayvon Martin, the album itself rounding out on the Chicago-energized Dope (For The Steppers), the New Orleans-flavored Girl Get �Em (feat. Kenny Bentley), coming to a close on an instrumental version of Your Eyes Can�t Lie.

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