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Hilary Hahn at the Hollywood Bowl
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Obiter dictum: Something else that did matter was the sound of the string bass of Christian McBride, at the Wednesday-night jazz program back at the Bowl, which — I admit with some shame — was the first of the series I’d gotten to this summer. McBride is the Philharmonic’s new creative chair for jazz, and the glory trail of his career runs at least as far back as 1990. What I heard the other night wasn’t merely a matter of my visit to another category. The deep pulse of McBride’s instrument was a bass of richness not before known to me; its infiltration into the sounds of the others in his band — Ron Blake’s saxophones, Terreon Gully’s drums, even Geoffrey Keezer’s keyboards — was something I could easily share. His set was one of three on the program, with Joshua Redman and Herbie Hancock, but the sound that followed me home was the bass of Christian McBride.?
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