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Will Lee..?

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Tbeers

Mar 27, 2005
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#1
I recently bought a Best of Brecker Brothers CD and there is this one track called "Straphangin'" that I can't stop listening to. The bassist plays some really out-there stuff but I'm really into his style. I believe his name was Will Lee, but I am not sure. Does anyone know more about this electric bassist? Again, I may not have the name right... but he definitely recorded with the Brecker Brothers (obviously).
 
#2
Will Lee is the bassist on Late Night with David Letterman, a studio player who works primarily in New York and is generally considered one of the finest, most reliable pocket players alive today by people who work in the same circles......He has been commanding triple scale or MORE for over 20 years now.......He is also quite an excellent vocalist who does a LOT of the voice work for major campaign adverstising.....AND he is a very down to earth and nice person.....

check out his website here......it will give you a LOT of info about him.....and you should also do a search in these forums for Will Lee

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Peace,

T
 
#3
The album Straphangin' (and it's title track, to which you refer) was recorded by Marcus Miller, check out his solo on "Not Ethiopia".

Easy,
R
 
#5
That's so weird! I could have SWORN it said Will Lee in the liner notes!

Well, thanks for all the good info, all of you....

edit: I understand, now. Since this was a best-of disc, maybe the fact that there were multiple bassists got lost in the shuffle.
 
#6
I saw Will Lee play in New York a month and a half ago with his band, The Fab Faux. They're basically the world's greatest Beatles cover band. He's an amazing musician and an equally talented singer.

Needless to say, it was a great show. They nailed every song note for note and probably played them better than the Beatles ever could have.
 
#9
Will Lee = awesome.

On the Bass Extremes Cookbook CD-the Tune "Bassically Yours" it's Steve Bailey on 6 string fretless & back ground vox, Victor Wooten on 4 string Tenor i believe [A-C] w/backing vox, and then Will Lee on Low 4 [B-D] and lead vocals. Great on all counts.

That's all
 
#10
Starbucker said:
I saw Will Lee play in New York a month and a half ago with his band, The Fab Faux. They're basically the world's greatest Beatles cover band. He's an amazing musician and an equally talented singer.

Needless to say, it was a great show. They nailed every song note for note and probably played them better than the Beatles ever could have.
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Did Will play left-handed?
 
#16
There aren't many bass players on the planet that can play as Hot as Uncle Will and hold down a rock solid groove at the same time.

There probably ain't many bass players on the planet making more money than Uncle Will either.

Thats worth a moment or two of thought.....
 
#19
Hijack warning......I always dug Neil Jason's playing and tone with the Breckers....killer Jazz-bass tone! His work on Heavy Metal Bebop is steller!
 
#20
jerry said:
I always dug Neil Jason's playing and tone with the Breckers....killer Jazz-bass tone! His work on Heavy Metal Bebop is steller!
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umm, if you're talking about the 1978 release, then i'm pretty sure it's Will on that one. not sure how reliable this is, but here goes:
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Regardless, Will's a fantastic player. I'm pretty sure that's him on Bob Berg's CD ("Short Stories"). HUGE sounding walking line on "Friday Night(...)". One of my fav's!

Also, I recall seeing him in the credits for Mike Stern's "Is What It Is". Great player all'round.
 

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