Prime

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Grammy-winner Christian McBride is back with the second album from his New Jawn quartet! With the release of its exhilarating second album, Prime, and seven years of band life under its belt, Christian McBride’s New Jawn isn’t exactly new anymore. Yet you’d never guess it from the tightrope-walking sounds they create together, and that’s why their name is still as fitting as ever. The quartet – bassist Christian McBride, trumpeter Josh Evans, saxophonist and bass clarinetist Marcus Strickland, and drummer Nasheet Waits – has managed to retain a sense of freshness and daring that evokes the thrills of a brazen band of upstarts, while navigating a wide array of improvisational moods and daunting compositional challenges that could only be met by four musicians of this unparalleled caliber. “I think we’re all at our primes as musicians,” McBride said, explaining the album title, before slyly correcting himself. “No, I’m going to think positively – we’re almost at our prime.”