Christian McBride & Inside Straight - Kind Of Brown

During the 2008 Detroit International Jazz Festival, the city-based Mack Avenue Records announced that Christian McBride, one of the most prominent jazz artists of his generation, had signed onto the label. For his June 16^th Mack Avenue recording debut, the 36-year-old bassist/bandleader/educator/artistic director/Grammy Award winner delivers the remarkable Kind Of Brown, a 10-track album featuring his new acoustic jazz quintet Inside Stright, comprised of old friends, pianist Eric Reed, alto saxophonist Steve Wilson and drummer Carl Allen, as well as newcomer vibraphonist Warren Wolf, one of McBride's former students.