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Born: May 19, 1935 in Tulsa, OK Genre: Jazz Styles: Post-Bop, Mainstream Jazz, Modern Creative, Early Creative, Progressive Jazz Instruments: Bass, Leader
One of post-bop's most advanced and versatile bassists, Cecil McBee has played with an enormous variety of artists, and is just as capable in a solo or group improvisational context as he is at offering thoughtfully advanced background support. McBee was born May 19, 1935, in Tulsa, and played clarinet as a high schooler before switching to bass at age 17. He studied to be a music teacher and spent two years conducting a military band; he played with Dinah Washington in 1959, and, in 1962, he moved to Detroit to make inroads into the city's burgeoning jazz scene. He joined Paul Winter's folk-jazz ensemble in 1963, and moved to New York with them the following year. McBee found numerous opportunities there, recording and playing with artists like Andrew Hill, Sam Rivers, Jackie McLean, Wayne Shorter, and Keith Jarrett. He worked with Charles Lloyd during the saxophonist's breakthrough year of 1966, and later in the decade recorded with Pharoah Sanders, Yusef Lateef, Alice Coltrane, and Charles Tolliver. The '70s found McBee maintaining many of those connections, while also playing with Abdullah Ibrahim, Lonnie Liston Smith, Joanne Brackeen, Art Pepper, and Chico Freeman, plus leading his first session for Strata East in 1974 (titled Mutima). Two live dates from 1977 featuring Freeman, Music From the Source and Alternate Spaces, followed on small labels. McBee branched out into string-driven chamber jazz on his next effort, 1982's Flying Out. After 1983's Compassion, though, McBee remained largely silent as a leader for quite some time, returning to his familiar sideman role. In 1996, he formed his own quintet and began touring Europe; their music was documented on 1997's Unspoken.
- Steve Huey (All Music Guide)
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CD коллекции, связанные с исполнителем: |
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John Hicks - 'Power Trio' - 1990, Novus |
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Ray Anderson - 'Old Bottles, New Wine' - 1992, Enja |
Kenny Barron - 'Landscape' - 1985, BMG |
Kenny Barron - 'What If?' - 2007, Enja, Tokuma Records |
Arthur Blythe - 'Lenox Avenue Breakdown' - 1979, Koch Jazz |
Arthur Blythe - 'Retroflection' - 1993, Enja |
Anthony Braxton - 'Eight (+3) Tristano Compositions, 1989: For Warne Marsh' - 1989, hatART |
George Cables - 'Night And Day' - 1991, DIW |
Alice Coltrane - 'Journey To Satchidananda' - 1970, Impulse! |
Junior Cook - 'Stablemates' - 1990, Affinity |
Chico Freeman - 'Chico' - 1977, India Navigation |
Chico Freeman - 'Destiny's Dance' - 1982, OJC |
Chico Freeman - 'Freeman & Freeman' - 1996, India Navigation |
Chico Freeman - 'Morning Prayer' - 1975, 3D |
Chico Freeman - 'Spirit Sensitive' - 1979, India Navigation |
Chico Freeman - 'Still Sensitive' - 1979, India Navigation |
Chico Freeman - 'The Pied Piper' - 1984, Black Hawk |
Kip Hanrahan - 'Coup De Tete' - 1981, American Clave, veraBra Music |
Eddie Harris - 'There Was A Time (Echo Of Harlem)' - 1990, Enja |
Abdullah Ibrahim - 'A Celebration' - 2005, Enja |
Abdullah Ibrahim - 'African Marketplace' - 1980, Discovery |
Abdullah Ibrahim - 'Good News From Africa: Portrait' - 1990, Network |
Elvin Jones - 'Elvin Jones' - 1994, Enja Tide, Musica Jazz |
Elvin Jones - 'It Don't Mean A Thing' - 1995, Enja |
Elvin Jones - 'When I Was At Aso-Mountain' - 1993, Enja |
Clifford Jordan - 'Two Tenor Winner' - 1984, Criss Cross |
Wynton Kelly - 'Interpretations' - 1967, P-Vine Records |
Charles Lloyd - 'Forest Flower: Live In Monterey' - 1968, Rhino |
Joe Maneri - 'Dahabenzapple' - 1996, Hat Hut Records, hatART |
Grachan Moncur III - 'Mosaic Select: Grachan Moncur III' - 2004, Mosaic |
Grachan Moncur III - 'Some Other Stuff' - 1964, Blue Note |
Amina Claudine Myers - 'Salutes Bessie Smith' - 1980, Leo |
Art Pepper - 'Winter Moon' - 1980, Galaxy, OJC |
Vanessa Rubin - 'Soul Eyes' - 1992, Novus |
Joe Sample - 'Invitation' - 1993, Warner Bros. |
Pharoah Sanders - 'Black Unity' - 1971, Impulse! |
Pharoah Sanders - 'Jewels Of Thought' - 1969, Impulse! |
Pharoah Sanders - 'The Impulse Story' - 2006, Impulse! |
Pharoah Sanders - 'Thembi' - 1971, MCA Records, Impulse! |
Pharoah Sanders - 'Village Of The Pharoahs. Wisdom Through Music' - 2011, Impulse! |
Wayne Shorter - 'Etcetera. The All Seeing Eye. Adam's Apple' - 1965, Blue Note |
The Cookers - 'Believe' - 2012, Motema Music |
The Cookers - 'Cast The First Stone' - 2010, Plus Loin |
The Cookers - 'Warriors' - 2010, Jazz Legacy |
Toots Thielemans - 'Images' - 1974, Candid |
Leon Thomas - 'Spirits Known And Unknown' - 1969, Bluebird, BMG |
Charles Tolliver - 'Mosaic Select' - 2008, Mosaic Select |
Charles Tolliver - 'With Love' - 2007, Blue Note |
Mal Waldron - 'What It Is' - 1981, Enja |
Kazumi Watanabe - 'Lonesome Cat' - 2001, Nippon Columbia, Denon |