I've been digging McBride's latest album as a leader and was happy to come across a great live, swingin' set of music captured on streaming video featuring Christian McBride and his current band "Inside Straight" courtesy of the kind folks at NPR and the Village Vanguard:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120260191&ft=1&f=90611896#end
This band features a very talented and very AWESOME young vibraphonist by the name of Warren Wolfe and a long-time favorite of mine, Carl Allen on drums.
I was fortunate to study a bit with Carl several years ago in New York. Capturing a deep sense of swing throughout everything we do as drummers was a constant theme during my lessons with Carl and these youtube.com vignettes capture that very clearly. Here's some clips of Carl doing his thing:
Carl Allen with Christian McBride and "Inside Straight":
The "New York Jazz All-Stars" live at the Newport Jazz Festival:
(Dig Mulgrew Miller on piano - WHOA !!)
Some slick brush work in trio with Benny Green and Ben Wolfe:
Here's another trio of Carl playing with Hank Jones and George Mraz:
And here's Carl endorsing some drum heads (and playing great !)
You can learn more about Carl Allen at his website: www.carlallen.com
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