Guitarist

Eleven-time Grammy Award-winning bassist, composer, and bandleader Christian McBride is joined by four rising young instrumentalists: saxophonist Nicole Glover, guitarist Ely Perlman, pianist Mike King, and drummer Savannah Harris. Part of American Panorama: Voices of a Nation at 250.

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Christian McBride & Ursa Major

University of Georgia Performing Arts Center

Widely considered one of the best bassists of his generation, Christian McBride is an eleven-time GRAMMY-winning bassist, composer, and bandleader. He has performed and recorded with jazz legends like Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Herbie Hancock, Roy Haynes and Chick Corea, as well as new-school stars Joshua Redman, Nicholas Payton and Benny Green.

Ronnie Scott's

In 2022 Christian McBride started touring with a brand new band: Christian McBride & Ursa Major. Led by eight-time GRAMMY-winning bassist, composer, and bandleader McBride, this project features four young master instrumentalists, with Christian on both acoustic and electric bass.

Alluvion Jazz Series: Christian McBride & Ursa Major - TWO SHOW EVENING

Commongrounds

More than a bass superstar, Christian McBride has become a commanding force in American culture. His responsibilities are legion, from producer and radio host to his recent post as artistic director of the historic Newport Jazz Festival. And that’s to say nothing of his era-defining work as an eight-time GRAMMY Award-winning bandleader and recording artist who’s collaborated with everyone from McCoy Tyner, Sonny Rollins, Pat Metheny and Chick Corea to Sting, Paul McCartney, Kathleen Battle, The Roots and James Brown. 

Christian McBride’s Ursa Major

SFJAZZ Center

Revered master of the upright bass, Christian McBride is also the foremost master of finding new talent and surrounding himself with young musicians. His New Quintet is precisely that. Jazz Club audiences have a rare opportunity to be up close with the acclaimed bandleader, composer, and educator alongside his fresh crop of next-gen superstars.

Christian Mcbride & Ursa Major

Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts

Christian McBride is an eight-time GRAMMY-winning bassist, composer and bandleader fusing everything from jazz to R&B, pop/rock to hip-hop/neo-soul to classical. He is the Artistic Director of the historic Newport Jazz Festival, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC), the TD James Moody Jazz Festival, and the National Jazz Museum in Harlem.

Christian McBride and Ursa Major

Saratoga Performing Arts Center

Bassist Christian McBride was named artistic director of the Jazz Aspen Snowmass Summer Sessions (2000), co-director of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem (2005) and creative chair for jazz for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association (2005). He now serves as artistic advisor for jazz programming at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center and as artistic director of the Newport Jazz Festival. From jazz to R&B to pop/rock to hip-hop/neo-soul to classical, McBride is a luminary with one hand ever reaching for new heights -- and the other extended in fellowship. McBride will be joined by Nicole Glover (sax), Ely Perlman (guitar), Mike King (piano) and Savannah Harris (drums).

Guitarist

Ely Perlman

Events

Past events

Oct 29, 2026

Christian McBride & Ursa Major · UGA Performing Arts Center

1 - 2 Oct, 2026

Christian McBride & Ursa Major · Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club

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