Transcript
Christian McBride (0:00)
Foreign.
Alison Stewart (0:09)
This is all of it on WNYC. I'm Alison Stewart. Bassist, composer and bandleader Christian McBride has a new album featuring his big band and a few special guests, including Samara Joy, Diane Reeves, Jeffrey Osborne, and 2/3 of the Police. As in Sting and Andy Summers, check out McBride's cover of the Police song Murder by Numbers.
Christian McBride (0:34)
Cause that's murder by numbers. 1, 2, 3. It's as easy to learn as your ABC murdered by numbers. 1, 2, three. It's as easy to learn as your ABC. Now if you have a taste for.
Christian McBride (0:56)
This experience.
Christian McBride (1:00)
You'Re flush with your very first success. You must try a twosome or a threesome. And you'll find your conscience bothers you much less. Because murder is like anything you take to. It's a habit forming need for more and more. You can bump up every member of your family than anybody else.
Alison Stewart (1:44)
Chris McBride is here now for a listening party, including an exclusive listen to some yet to be released songs from the album. It is really nice to see you.
Christian McBride (1:53)
How lucky am I to spend time with the legend herself? Are you kidding?
Alison Stewart (1:58)
Listening to that song, it always sounds like, of course it should be played that way. Of course it should be played that way. You knew Sting a long time. When did you realize I'm gonna put this to a big band?
Christian McBride (2:10)
Well, Sting had already agreed to be a guest on the album, and we had been discussing doing another song. We were gonna do Shadows in the Rain, and I heard the original version of Murder by Numbers on the radio. Just by chance. I said, man, I forgot what a great song this is. And so I sent him a message just saying, hey, I heard Murder by Numbers on the radio. Man, I forgot what a great song that is. He thought that I was trying to change the song that we had already started to work on. And he said, would you rather do that instead with the big band? I said, no, no, no. I just was mentioning what a great song it was. He said, if you did want to do Murder by Numbers instead, I bet I could talk Andy into doing it with us. And at that point I went, okay, let's change. Next thing I know, within 20 minutes, I'm on an email chain with Sting and Andy Summers. So I'm like, this is surreal.
