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From the moment the National Museum of African American History and Culture opened, it was clearly the go-to venue for the Smithsonian’s jazz initiatives. Even more than many of its jazz events, though, NMAAHC’s
Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrations and
The Movement Revisited: A Musical Portrait of Four Icons seem made for each other. The iconic bassist’s work honors King alongside
Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, and
Muhammad Ali, building gospel-tinged music around their words and ideas in a dramatic way that by itself evokes a poetry reading. It’s shrewd programming, then, that McBride’s NMAAHC performance (with students from New York’s Juilliard School) based on