Cecil McBee- Interview

@whart 

What a great interview of a great musician!

Thanks for sharing!

Thanks @whart 

I’m not home now, but I’ll be sure to listen later tonight.

👍👍

He was warm, soft spoken and thoughtful. He told me he wasn't good with words (though I found him quite articulate) but that he expressed himself through his playing. And as @slaw observed about "being to the point," I hear the same thing in his playing. Thanks everybody, the real thanks is the gift of the music the man gave us. As you may gather, I have enormous respect for him. 

I loved that Cecil’s answers to questions or his reflections were to the point with no added commentary. That says a lot about him personally.

Agree here.  Great bass playing is often underrated.  Or unappreciated.  Not here.

Nice interview!

We share many things in common.  I have every one of the albums mentioned in your interview.  Now, when I get back to Florida, I will be listening to them all.  It is a tough job, but someone has to do it.  Thanks for a job well done.  You asked great questions.

thanks @elliottbnewcombjr - I listen to a lot of post bop and the contributions made by Mr. McBee are special. I was fortunate to get him on record- he is not someone who freely does interviews. I regard him as a special player and have many of his records. For those unfamiliar with his playing listen to the version of Patricia (the third recording of the composition by art pepper)- you get a sense of what he brought to the proceedings--https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXNpG0w_rks

Killer band as well. Stanley Cowell, Roy Hanyes, Cecil and of course, Art Pepper who was sublime. This is a late recording, shortly before Pepper’s death at a young age. 

Lucky you, thanks for the link, I play the Alternative Spaces album now and then.