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    Cecil McBee is an American jazz bassist born in 1935 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He studied clarinet and switched to bass in his late teens. In the 1960s, after moving to New York, his career took off as he began playing and recording with many significant jazz musicians such as Miles Davis, Andrew Hill, and Wayne Shorter. Throughout his career spanning over 50 years, McBee has recorded several albums as a leader but has predominantly contributed as a highly influential sideman on hundreds of albums across many genres of jazz. He currently teaches at the New England Conservatory in Boston.

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    Cecil McBee is an American jazz bassist born in 1935 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He studied clarinet and switched to bass in his late teens. In the 1960s, after moving to New York, his career took off as he began playing and recording with many significant jazz musicians such as Miles Davis, Andrew Hill, and Wayne Shorter. Throughout his career spanning over 50 years, McBee has recorded several albums as a leader but has predominantly contributed as a highly influential sideman on hundreds of albums across many genres of jazz. He currently teaches at the New England Conservatory in Boston.

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    Cecil McBee is an American jazz bassist born in 1935 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He studied clarinet and switched to bass in his late teens. In the 1960s, after moving to New York, his career took off as he began playing and recording with many significant jazz musicians such as Miles Davis, Andrew Hill, and Wayne Shorter. Throughout his career spanning over 50 years, McBee has recorded several albums as a leader but has predominantly contributed as a highly influential sideman on hundreds of albums across many genres of jazz. He currently teaches at the New England Conservatory in Boston.

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    Cecil McBee

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    Cecil McBee

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    Cecil McBee
    Born May 19, 1935 (age 79)
    Origin Tulsa, OK, United States
    Genres Jazz
    Occupations Musician
    Instruments Double bass
    Associated
    acts
    Dinah Washington, Paul Winter,Miles Davis, Andrew
    Hill, Sam Rivers, Jackie McLean, Wayne Shorter, Charles
    Lloyd, Yusef Lateef, Keith Jarrett, Freddie
    Hubbard, Woody Shaw, Alice Coltrane
    Cecil McBee (born May 19, 1935) is an American post-bop jazz bassist, one of the most
    influential in the history of jazz.
    [1][2]
    McBee has recorded as a leader only a handful of times since
    the 1970s, but has contributed as a sideman to a number of jazz albums.
    Contents
    [hide]
    1 Biography
    o 1.1 Early life and career
    o 1.2 New York
    o 1.3 Later career
    2 Awards
    o 2.1 Grammys
    3 Discography
    o 3.1 As leader
    o 3.2 As sideman
    4 References
    5 External links
    Biography[edit]
    Early life and career[edit]
    McBee was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on May 19, 1935. He studied clarinet at school, but
    switched to bass at the age of 17, and began playing in local nightclubs. After gaining a music
    degree from Ohio Central State University, he spent two years in the army, during which time he
    conducted the band at Fort Knox. In 1959 he played with Dinah Washington, and in 1962 he
    moved to Detroit, where he worked with Paul Winter's folk-rock ensemble in 1963-64.
    New York[edit]
    His jazz career began to take off in the mid-1960s, after he moved to New York, when he began
    playing and recording with a number of significant musicians including Miles Davis, Andrew
    Hill,Sam Rivers, Jackie McLean (1964), Wayne Shorter (196566), Charles Lloyd (1966), Yusef
    Lateef (196769), Keith Jarrett, Freddie Hubbard and Woody Shaw (1986), and Alice
    Coltrane(196972).
    Later career[edit]
    In the 2000s, McBee unsuccessfully sued a Japanese company that opened a chain of stores
    under his name.
    [3]

    He was an artist in residence at Harvard from 2010 to 2011.
    [4]
    He teaches at the New England
    Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts.
    Awards[edit]
    1991 he was inducted into the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame.
    Grammys[edit]
    Blues for Coltrane: A Tribute to John Coltrane (MCA, 1987), Pharoah Sanders/David
    Murray/McCoy Tyner/Cecil McBee/Roy Haynes - Winner, Best instrumental performance,
    individual or group, Grammy Awards, 1988.
    Discography[edit]
    As leader[edit]
    1975: Mutima (Strata-East Records)
    1977: Music from the Source (Enja Records)
    1977: Compassion (Enja)
    1979: Alternate Spaces (India Navigation)
    1982: Flying Out (India Navigation)
    1986: Roots of Blue (RPR) - duets with Muhal Richard Abrams
    1997: Unpsoken (Palmetto Records)
    As sideman[edit]
    With the Ray Anderson
    Old Bottles New Wine (1985)
    With the Bob Thiele Collective
    Sunrise Sunset (1990)
    With Kenny Barron
    What If? (Enja, 1986)
    With Joanne Brackeen
    Snooze (Choice, 1975)
    With Dollar Brand
    African Space Program (Enja, 1973)
    With Anthony Braxton
    Eight (+3) Tristano Compositions, 1989: For Warne Marsh (hatArt, 1989)
    With Roy Brooks
    The Free Slave (Muse, 1970 [1972])
    With Alice Coltrane
    Journey in Satchidananda (Impulse!, 1970)
    With Chico Freeman
    Morning Prayer (India Navigation, 1976)
    Chico (India Navigation, 1977)
    The Outside Within (India Navigation, 1978)
    Spirit Sensitive (India Navigation, 1979)
    Destiny's Dance (Contemporary, 1981)
    With Johnny Griffin
    Birds and Ballads (1978)
    With Andrew Hill
    Compulsion! (Blue Note, 1965)
    With Freddie Hubbard and Woody Shaw
    Double Take (Blue Note, 1986)
    With Elvin Jones
    Power Trio (Novus, 1990) - with John Hicks
    When I Was at Aso-Mountain (Enja, 1990)
    Elvin Jones Jazz Machine (Trio, 1997)
    It Don't Mean a Thing (Enja, 1993)
    With Clifford Jordan
    Two Tenor Winner (Criss Cross Jazz, 1984)
    With John Klemmer
    Magic and Movement (Impulse!, 1974)
    With Yusef Lateef
    The Complete Yusef Lateef (Atlantic, 1967)
    The Blue Yusef Lateef (Atlantic, 1968)
    Yusef Lateef's Detroit (Atlantic, 1969)
    The Diverse Yusef Lateef (Atlantic, 1970)
    With The Leaders
    Mudfoot (Black Hawk, 1986)
    Out Here Like This (Black Saint, 1987)
    Unforeseen Blessings (Black Saint, 1988)
    Heaven Dance (Sunnyside, 1988) - The Leaders Trio with pianist Kirk Lightsey and drummer
    Don Moye
    Spirits Alike (Double Moon, 2007)
    With Dave Liebman
    The Seasons (Soul Note, 1992)
    John Coltrane's 'Meditations' (Arkadia Jazz, 1998)
    With Charles Lloyd
    Dream Weaver (1966, Atlantic)
    Forest Flower (1966, Atlantic)
    The Flowering (1966, Atlantic)
    Charles Lloyd in Europe (1966, Atlantic)
    With Raphe Malik
    Storyline (Boxholder, 1999) - with Cody Moffett
    With Jackie McLean
    It's Time! (Blue Note, 1964)
    Action Action Action (Blue Note, 1964)
    With Lloyd McNeill
    Treasures (1976)
    With Charles McPherson
    New Horizons (Xanadu, 1977)
    With Grachan Moncur III
    Some Other Stuff (Blue Note, 1964)
    With Amina Claudine Myers
    Salutes Bessie Smith (Leo, 1980)
    With Almanac
    Almanac (Improvising Artists, 1967)
    With Art Pepper
    Winter Moon (Galaxy, 1980)
    With Dannie Richmond
    "In" Jazz for the Culture Set (Impulse!, 1965)
    With Sam Rivers
    Dimensions & Extensions (Blue Note, 1967)
    Streams (Impulse!, 1973)
    Hues (Impulse!, 1973)
    With Buddy Tate and Dollar Brand
    Buddy Tate Meets Dollar Brand (Chiaroscuro Records, 1977)
    With Pharoah Sanders
    Jewels of Thought (Impulse!, 1969)
    Thembi (Impulse!, 1970)
    Black Unity (Impulse!, 1971)
    Live at the East (Impulse!, 1972)
    Village of the Pharoahs (Impulse!, 1973)
    Love in Us All (Impulse!, 1973)
    With Saxophone Summit
    Gathering of Spirits (Telarc, 2004)
    With Zbigniew Seifert
    Man of the Light (Promising Music, 2010)
    With Woody Shaw
    The Moontrane (Muse, 1974)
    Love Dance (Muse, 1975)
    The Iron Men with Anthony Braxton (Muse, 1977 [1980])
    With Archie Shepp
    Lady Bird (Denon, 1978)
    With Wayne Shorter
    Et Cetera (Blue Note, 1965)
    Odyssey of Iska (Blue Note, 1970)
    With Lonnie Liston Smith
    Expansions (1974)
    With Leon Thomas
    Spirits Known and Unknown (1969)
    With Horace Tapscott
    The Dark Tree, Vol. 1 & 2 (hatOLOGY, 1989)
    With Mickey Tucker
    Sojourn (Xanadu, 1977)
    Mister Mysterious (Muse, 1978)
    With McCoy Tyner
    Quartets 4 X 4 (Milestone, 1980)
    Blues for Coltrane (1987)
    With James "Blood" Ulmer
    Revealing (1977)
    With Mal Waldron
    What It Is (Enja, 1981)
    With Michael White
    The Land of Spirit and Light (Impulse!, 1973)
    With Paul Winter
    Jazz Meets the Folk-Song (1963)
    With Ysuke Yamashita
    Sakura (Verve, 1990)
    Kurdish Dance (Verve, 1993)
    Dazzling Days (Verve, 1993)
    Fragments 1999 (Verve, 1999)
    Spider (Verve, 1996)
    Delightful Contrast (Universal, 2011)

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