Christian McBride & Julian Lage

Christian McBride, bassist, double bassist, and composer has blazed an extraordinary trail as one of the most preeminent musicians of his time. Over the last three decades, the 11x GRAMMY® winner has made momentous advances as a dynamic musician and recording artist, a prolific composer-arranger-producer, a distinguished curator of culture, and a dedicated educator and mentor.

Guitarist and composer Julian Lage has long been prolific: In the three decades since the documentary Jules at Eight identified him as a prodigy, Lage has made a dozen records with his own bands and duos, and three times that many with leading lights of his artistic orbit, like John Zorn, Gary Burton, and Charles Lloyd.