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YES YES YES!!!
Ahead of two SOLD OUT Nights Of The Cookers at London's Church of Sound, we celebrate the VITAL force, the limitless influence and the incredible musical life of CECIL MCBEE, a man responsible for more of your favourite records than you realise.
Go on, check Discogs... it's INSANE!!! 500+ recordings!!!!
Opening the show with two beautiful new releases, from Mark de Clive Lowe (via Impressive Collective Music and Artists/ BBE) and Ledley (via the wonderful Impossible Ark Records), the rest of the show is devoted to Cecil McBee's work with Alice Coltrane, Donald Smith, Almanac, Woody Shaw, Grachan Moncur III & the JCOA, Mtume, Pharoah Sanders, Arthur Blythe, Mickey Tucker, his own Sextet work with Chico Freeman & Co, Jothan Callins, Roy Haynes, Yusef Lateef and close out with his IMMORTAL bassline busting classic with Lonnie Liston Smith.
PHEW!!!!
