Malcolm Cecil

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Malcolm Cecil (born 9 January 1937, in London), is a British jazz bassist and Grammy Award-winning producer.

A founding member of the UK's leading jazz quintet of the late 1950s, The Jazz Couriers,[1] he went on to join a number of British jazz combos led by Dick Morrissey, Tony Crombie and Ronnie Scott in the late 50s and early 60s.[2] He later joined Cyril Davies and Alexis Korner to form the original line-up of Blues Incorporated.

He later joined Robert Margouleff to form the duo TONTO's Expanding Head Band, a project based around a unique combination of synthesizers which led to them collaborating on and co-producing several of Stevie Wonder's Grammy-winning albums of the early 70s.

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[edit] TONTO's Expanding Head Band

With Robert Margouleff, he formed the duo TONTO's Expanding Head Band, a project based around a unique combination of synthesizers. The duo were closely associated with Stevie Wonder’s multiple Grammy awards-winning Talking Book (1972), sharing the Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical award as well as collaborating on and co-producing classic Wonder albums such as Music of My Mind, Innervisions and Fulfillingness' First Finale.

Cecil is credited, with Margouleff, as engineer for the Stevie Wonder-produced album Perfect Angel (1974), by Minnie Riperton.

Their unique sound made them highly-sought after and they went on to collaborate with, amongst others, Quincy Jones, Bobby Womack, The Isley Brothers, Billy Preston, Gil Scott-Heron and Weather Report, Stephen Stills, The Doobie Brothers, Dave Mason, Little Feat, Joan Baez and Steve Hillage.

[edit] Discography (partial)

[edit] Solo

  • 1981 Radiance

[edit] with The Dick Morrissey Quartet

[edit] with The Tony Crombie Orchestra

  • 1961: The Tony Crombie Orchestra

[edit] with Emcee Five

  • 1961: Let's Take Five
  • 1962: Bebop from the East Coast

[edit] with Jim Hall

  • 1971: ...Where Would I Be?

[edit] with TONTO's Expanding Headband

  • 1971: Zero Time
  • 1972: It's About Time

[edit] with Stevie Wonder

[edit] with Steve Hillage

[edit] with Bill Augustine

  • 1996: A Jazzy Christmas

[edit] References

  1. ^ The Jazz Couriers at David Taylor's British jazz web site
  2. ^ Ronnie Scott at David Taylor's British jazz web site
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