Cecil McBee

19 maja 1935
Tulsa

kontrabas

jazz

muzyk, kontrabasista

lata 60. – obecnie

Strata-East, Enja, India Navigation, Palmetto

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, The Cookers

Jako lider

• Mutima (Strata-East, 1975)
• Music from the Source (Enja, 1977)
• Compassion (Enja, 1977)
• Alternate Spaces (India Navigation, 1979)
• Flying Out (India Navigation, 1982)
• Roots of Blue (RPR, 1986) – duo z Muhalem Richardem Abramsem
• Unspoken (Palmetto, 1997)

Jako sideman

George Adams

• America (Blue Note, 1990)

Ray Anderson

• Old Bottles - New Wine (Enja, 1985)

Chet Baker

• Blues for a Reason (Criss Cross Jazz, 1985)

Bill Barron

• Live at Cobi's 2 (SteepleChase, 1885 [2006])

Kenny Barron

• Landscape (Baystate, 1984)
• What If? (Enja, 1986)
• Live at Fat Tuesdays (Enja, 1988)

Bob Thiele Collective

• Sunrise Sunset (Red Baron, 1990)

Joanne Brackeen

• Snooze (Choice, 1975)
• Tring-a-Ling (Choice, 1977)
• Havin' Fun (Concord Jazz, 1985)
• Fi-Fi Goes to Heaven (Concord Jazz, 1986)
• Turnaround (Evidence, 1992)

Dollar Brand

• African Space Program (Enja, 1973)

Anthony Braxton

• Eight (+3) Tristano Compositions, 1989: For Warne Marsh (hatArt, 1989)

Roy Brooks

• The Free Slave (Muse, 1970 [1972])

Joe Chambers

• The Almoravid (Muse, 1974)

Alice Coltrane

• Journey in Satchidananda (Impulse!, 1970)

Junior Cook

• Pressure Cooker (Catalyst, 1977)

Stanley Cowell

• Equipoise (Galaxy, 1979)
• Close to You Alone (DIW, 1990)

Ted Curson

• Blue Piccolo (Whynot, 1976)

Ricky Ford

• Looking Ahead (Muse. 1986)

Chico Freeman

• Morning Prayer (India Navigation, 1976)
• Chico (India Navigation, 1977)
• The Outside Within (India Navigation, 1978)
• Kings of Mali (India Navigation, 1978)
• Spirit Sensitive (India Navigation, 1979)
• Destiny’s Dance (Contemporary, 1981)
• Lord Riff and Me (Whyno, 2001)

Hal Galper

• Now Hear This (Enja, 1977)

Johnny Griffin

• Birds and Ballads (1978)

Louis Hayes

• Variety Is the Spice (Gryphon, 1978)

Roy Haynes

• Thank You Thank You (Galaxy, 1977)
• Vistalite (Galaxy, 1977 [1979])

Andrew Hill

• Compulsion (Blue Note, 1965)

Freddie Hubbard i Woody Shaw

• Double Take (Blue Note, 1986)

Elvin Jones

• Power Trio (Novus, 1990) – z Johnem Hicksem
• When I Was at Aso-Mountain (Enja, 1990)
• Elvin Jones Jazz Machine (Trio, 1997)
• It Don't Mean a Thing (Enja, 1993)

Clifford Jordan

• Two Tenor Winner (Criss Cross, 1984)

John Klemmer

• Magic and Movement (Impulse!, 1974)

Prince Lasha

• Inside Story (Enja, 1965 [1981])

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)

The Leaders

• Mudfoot (Black Hawk, 1986)
• Out Here Like This (Black Saint, 1987)
• Unforeseen Blessings (Black Saint, 1988)
• Heaven Dance (Sunnyside, 1988)
• Spirits Alike (Double Moon, 2007)

Dave Liebman

• The Seasons (Soul Note, 1992)
• John Coltrane's Meditations (Arkadia Jazz, 1998)

Charles Lloyd

• Dream Weaver (1966, Atlantic)
• Forest Flower (1966, Atlantic)
• The Flowering (1966, Atlantic)
• Charles Lloyd in Europe (1966, Atlantic)

Raphe Malik

• Storyline (Boxholder, 1999) – z Codym Moffettem

Joe Maneri

• Dahabenzapple (hat ART, 1993 [1996])

Jackie McLean

• It’s Time! (Blue Note, 1964)
• Action (Blue Note, 1964)

Lloyd McNeill

• Treasures (1976)

Charles McPherson

• New Horizons (Xanadu, 1977)

Grachan Moncur III

• Some Other Stuff (Blue Note, 1964)

Tisziji Munoz

• Visiting This Planet (Anami Music, 1980's)
• Presence of Joy (Anami Music, 1999)
• Divine Radiance (Anami Music, 2003)

Amina Claudine Myers

• Salutes Bessie Smith (Leo, 1980)

Almanac

• Almanac (Improvising Artists, 1977)

Art Pepper

• Winter Moon (Galaxy, 1980)

Dannie Richmond

• "In" Jazz for the Culture Set (Impulse!, 1965)

Sam Rivers

• Dimensions & Extensions (Blue Note, 1967)
• Streams (Impulse!, 1973)
• Hues (Impulse!, 1973)

Charlie Rouse

• Social Call (Uptown, 1984) z Redem Rodneyem

Pharoah Sanders

• Izipho Zam (My Gifts) (Strata-East, 1969 [1973])
• 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)

Saxophone Summit

• Gathering of Spirits (Telarch, 2004)

Zbigniew Seifert

• Man Of The Light (Promising Music, 2010)

Woody Shaw

• The Moontrane (Muse, 1974)
• Love Dance (Muse, 1975)
• The Iron Men z Anthonym Braxtonem (Muse, 1977 [1980])

Archie Shepp

• Lady Bird (Denon, 1978)

Wayne Shorter

• Etcetera (Blue Note, 1965)
• Odyssey of Iska (Blue Note, 1970)

Sonny Simmons

• Burning Spirits (Contemporary, 1971)

Lonnie Liston Smith

• Expansions (Flying Dutchman, 1974)

Buddy Tate i Dollar Brand

• Buddy Tate Meets Dollar Brand (Chiaroscuro, 1977)

Leon Thomas

• Spirits Known and Unknown (1969)

Horace Tapscott

• The Dark Tree, Vol. 1 & 2 (hatOLOGY, 1989)

Charles Tolliver

• Live at Slugs', Volume I & II (Strata-East, 1970)
• Music Inc. (Strata-East, 1971)
• Impact (Strata-East, 1975)

Mickey Tucker

• Sojourn (Xanadu, 1977)
• Mister Mysterious (Muse, 1978)

McCoy Tyner

• Quartets 4 X 4 (Milestone, 1980)
• Blues for Coltrane (1987)

James Blood Ulmer

• Revealing (1977)

Mal Waldron

• What It Is (Enja, 1981)

Michael White

• The Land of Spirit and Light (Impulse!, 1973)

Paul Winter

• Jazz Meets the Folk-Song (1963)

Yōsuke Yamashita

• Sakura (Verve, 1990)
• Kurdish Dance (Verve, 1993)
• Dazzling Days (Verve, 1993)
• Fragments 1999 (Verve, 1999)
• Spider (Verve, 1996)
• Delightful Contrast (Universal, 2011)

Denny Zeitlin

• Cathexis (Columbia, 1963)