The musician who has played with James Brown, Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea is trying to make traditional jazz more visible. He plays the Wortham March 3.
First things first: Christian McBride’s New Jawn is coming to Houston Friday, and it would be perfectly reasonable for any non-Philadelphian to ask: what is a jawn?
The answer: a jawn is a joint, or a thing, or an all-purpose, fill-in-the-blank noun. Questlove from The Roots, another Philadelphia native, is fond of using the word. There’s actually a funny bit in the first “Creed” movie in which Bianca hips her new friend Adonis to the word.
“There's an accepted narrative that jazz is swinging, that it has an eight-bar structure, that it has a familiar turnaround to it, a familiar feel to it, and that can be creatively confining,” he says. “But I think there's plenty of freedom inside of structure. I think what actually makes freedom fun is that you break the structure. If you have no structure, you don't have a lot of resistance, and if you don't have any resistance, you're not going anywhere.
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