Double Bass Cecil McBee

[Monte]

I really dig Cecil's playing.....what are some of your favorites of his?

I posted in Recordings about the new record he is on. I also really dig "Unspoken" under his name with David Berkman and Matt Wilson as his rhythm section from 1997.

 

[David Kaczorowski]

Sonny Simmons' "Burning Spirits", Cecil McBee AND Richard Davis.

 

[Monte]

Sonny Simmons' "Burning Spirits", Cecil McBee AND Richard Davis.

I need to check this out.....can't find it on iTunes I'll have to find a cd somewhere.

I was just listening to Sonny Simmons....picked up Manhattan Egos the other day and really dig Eddie Marshall on it.

 

[David Kaczorowski]

I have that one too. I downloaded them both from Rhapsody.

 

[Marc Piane]

His solo record "Unspoken" Is pretty badass. Matt Wilson on drums. They make a pretty awesome pair.

 

[Eric Hochberg]

One of my all time favorite bassists and a huge influence on me. I learned how to play by hearing him with Sonny Rollins. Five nights in a row, sat in the front and stayed all night at the Jazz Showcase in '73, or so. All eyes and ears on Cecil and the way he played. Sonny was in peak form, and it was an amazing week.

Check out Sam Rivers' "Streams" with Cecil and Norman Conners.

 

[JDubbleyoo]

Music Inc. Live at Slugs, Vols 1 and 2. With Charles Tolliver, Stanley Cowell and Jimmy Hopps.

Banyana--Children of Africa. Dollar Brand (now Abdullah Ibrahim) trio, with Roy Brooks.

Desert Island material.

 

[Brent Nussey]

Monte - I would never have figured you for a Cecil McBee guy. Life is full of surprises.

My favorite Cecil McBee is his clothing for young girls:
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Brent

 

[Paul Warburton]

 

[Jake deVilliers]

Monte - I would never have figured you for a Cecil McBee guy. Life is full of surprises.

My favorite Cecil McBee is his clothing for young girls:
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Brent

Yowzah - great design sense!

 

[Sam Sherry]

Two Faves:
McCoy Tyner, 4x4 in which Mr. Tyner, Mr. McBee and Al Foster are joined for quartet pieces by John Abercrombie, Freddie Hubbard, Bobby Hutcherson and Arthur Blythe. Mmm mmm mmm!

Chico Freeman, Destiny's Dance also with Mr. Hutcherson and featuring 20-year-old Wynton Marsalis absolutely ripping down the building. I've never heard a WM record I like better than this one. Six downloads could not be better spent.

My favorite Cecil McBee is his clothing for young girls:
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Cecil spoke at length about that when I studied with him briefly a few years ago. These folks pirated his name and even the type-font of an early-70s album. He was shocked, but (not to speak for him) pretty much figured, "Heck, it's Japan, I'll deal with this some other time." Later he sued to stop the piracy and the court pretty much held, "Too late, man."

Bottom line for me is, "Intellectual property presents both a right, and the obligation to enforce that right." If you don't act quickly to protect your right you lose it. Bottom line for Mr. McBee is something else entirely. Yuck!

 

[Troy Robey]

Pharoah Sanders' album Thembi. Cecil McBee unaccompanied pizz and arco on the track 'Love'.

 

[tito mangialajo]

Jackie McLean's "It's time!"
Cecil plays wonderful, and the other too. Roy Haynes is amazing.

 

[Gornick]

Alice Coltrane - Journey In Satchidananda
One of those desert island albums with Cecil AND Charlie Haden!

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[damonsmith]

Horace Tapscott's "The Dark Tree" is a must own. His playing on the Joe Maneri Quartet's "Dahabenzapple" is weirder than almost anything in an awesome way.

 

[Jeremy Allen]

Pharoah Sanders' album Thembi. Cecil McBee unaccompanied pizz and arco on the track 'Love'.

+1, +2, +3

Also, Kenny Barron's "What If?" (hard to find, but it's on emusic I think). And don't forget Charles Lloyd! Forest Flower--Live at Monterey--with Keith Jarrett and Jack Dejohnette.

I studied with Cecil at NEC back in the late '90s, and the stuff he gave me has, I don't know how else to say it, nourished me ever since.

 

[oliebrice]

Andrew Hill - compulsion!!!!!

 

[Mike Carr]

That line of clothing made it here to Hong Kong too. Often see his name on tee-shirts worn by super-cute girls here. I remember the first time I saw a girl wearing one it was kind of a "say what?"/ "Lost In Translation" sort of moment!

 

[B String]

Pharoah Sanders' album Thembi. Cecil McBee unaccompanied pizz and arco on the track 'Love'.

One of my all time Fav's. I named my dog Thembi.

 

[beggar98]

Reviving an old thread, but I just got Sam Rivers' Involution on vinyl, and McBee's playing with the sextet is excellent. Highly recommended.