Malcolm Cecil is a British

United Kingdom

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 jazz

Jazz

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 bassist

Bassist

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 and Grammy Award

Grammy Award

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-winning record producer

Record producer

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A founding member of the UK's leading jazz quintet of the late 1950s, The Jazz Couriers

The Jazz Couriers

The Jazz Couriers were a British jazz quintet formed in April 1957 and which disbanded in August 1959.The quintet's first line-up consisted of Tubby Hayes and Ronnie Scott on tenor saxophones, with Terry Shannon , Malcolm Cecil and Bill Eyden and made their debut on the opening night at the new...

, he went on to join a number of British jazz combos led by Dick Morrissey

Dick Morrissey

Richard Edwin "Dick" Morrissey was a British jazz musician and composer. He played the tenor sax, soprano sax and flute.- Background :...

, Tony Crombie

Tony Crombie

Anthony John "Tony" Crombie was an English jazz drummer, pianist, bandleader and composer. He was regarded as one of the finest jazz drummers and bandleaders, and occasional but very capable pianist and vibraphonist, to emerge in Britain, and as an energising influence on the British jazz scene...

 and Ronnie Scott

Ronnie Scott

Ronnie Scott was an English jazz tenor saxophonist and jazz club owner.-Life and career:Ronnie Scott was born in Aldgate, east London, into a family of Russian Jewish descent on his father's side, and Portuguese antecedents on his mother's. Scott began playing in small jazz clubs at the age of...

 in the late 50s and early 60s. He later joined Cyril Davies

Cyril Davies

Cyril Davies was one of the first British blues harmonica players and blues musician.-Biography:Born at St Mildred's, 15 Hawthorn Drive, Willowbank, Denham, Buckinghamshire, near London, he was the son of William Albert Davies, a labourer, and his wife Margaret Mary...

 and Alexis Korner

Alexis Korner

Alexis Korner was a blues musician and radio broadcaster, who has sometimes been referred to as "a Founding Father of British Blues"...

 to form the original line-up of Blues Incorporated

Blues Incorporated

Blues Incorporated were a British R&B band in the early 1960s, led by Alexis Korner and featuring at various times Jack Bruce, Charlie Watts, Terry Cox, Ginger Baker, Long John Baldry, Ronnie Jones, Danny Thompson, Graham Bond, Cyril Davies, Malcolm Cecil and Dick Heckstall-Smith.-History:Korner ...

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He later joined Robert Margouleff

Robert Margouleff

Robert Margouleff is a Grammy Award winning American record producer, recording engineer, electronic music pioneer, audio expert, and film producer....

 to form the duo TONTO's Expanding Head Band

Tonto's Expanding Head Band

Tonto's Expanding Head Band was a British electronic music duo consisting of Malcolm Cecil and Robert Margouleff. Despite releasing only two albums in the early 1970s, the duo were influential because of their session work for other musicians , extensive commercial advertising work and the unique...

, a project based around a unique combination of synthesizer

Synthesizer

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s which led to them collaborating on and co-producing several of Stevie Wonder

Stevie Wonder

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's Grammy-winning albums of the early 70s.

TONTO's Expanding Head Band

With Robert Margouleff

Robert Margouleff

Robert Margouleff is a Grammy Award winning American record producer, recording engineer, electronic music pioneer, audio expert, and film producer....

, he formed the duo TONTO's Expanding Head Band

Tonto's Expanding Head Band

Tonto's Expanding Head Band was a British electronic music duo consisting of Malcolm Cecil and Robert Margouleff. Despite releasing only two albums in the early 1970s, the duo were influential because of their session work for other musicians , extensive commercial advertising work and the unique...

, a project based around synthesizer

Synthesizer

A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...

s. The duo were closely associated with Stevie Wonder

Stevie Wonder

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's multiple Grammy Award winning Talking Book

Talking Book

Talking Book is the fifteenth album by Stevie Wonder, released on October 28, 1972. A signal recording of his "classic period", in this one he "hit his stride"...

 (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

Music of My Mind

- Side One :# "Love Having You Around" – 7:21#* Stevie Wonder – lead vocal, background vocal, Fender Rhodes, talk box, drums, Moog bass#* Art Baron – trombone#* Background Singers – uncredited...

, Innervisions

Innervisions

Innervisions is the sixteenth album by American musician Stevie Wonder, released August 3, 1973 on Motown Records; a landmark recording of his "classic period"...

 and Fulfillingness' First Finale

Fulfillingness' First Finale

-Side One:#"Smile Please" – 3:28#*Stevie Wonder – lead vocal, background vocal, Fender Rhodes, drums#*Michael Sembello – electric guitar#*Reggie McBride – electric bass#*Bobbye Hall – congas, bongos#*Jim Gilstrap – background vocals...

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Cecil is credited, with Margouleff, as engineer for the Stevie Wonder produced album Perfect Angel

Perfect Angel

In 1973, a college intern for Epic Records found Riperton in semi-retirement. She had become a homemaker and a mother of two in Gainesville, Florida. After he heard a demo of the song "Seeing You This Way", the rep took the tape to Don Ellis, VP of A&R for Epic...

 (1974), by Minnie Riperton

Minnie Riperton

Minnie Julia Riperton was an American singer-songwriter best known for her 1975 single "Lovin' You". She was married to songwriter and music producer Richard Rudolph from 1972 until her death in the summer of 1979. They had two children - music engineer Marc Rudolph and actress/comedienne Maya...

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Their unique sound made them highly-sought after and they went on to collaborate with, amongst others, Quincy Jones

Quincy Jones

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, Bobby Womack

Bobby Womack

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, The Isley Brothers

The Isley Brothers

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, Billy Preston

Billy Preston

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, Gil Scott-Heron

Gil Scott-Heron

Gilbert "Gil" Scott-Heron was an American soul and jazz poet, musician, and author known primarily for his work as a spoken word performer in the 1970s and '80s...

 and Weather Report

Weather Report

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, Stephen Stills

Stephen Stills

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, The Doobie Brothers

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, Dave Mason

Dave Mason

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, Little Feat

Little Feat

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, Joan Baez

Joan Baez

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 and Steve Hillage

Steve Hillage

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Discography

^{(see also Robert Margouleff Discography Margouleff and Cecil (together) Discography)}

with Stevie Wonder

• 1972: Music of My Mind
  Music of My Mind
  - Side One :# "Love Having You Around" – 7:21#* Stevie Wonder – lead vocal, background vocal, Fender Rhodes, talk box, drums, Moog bass#* Art Baron – trombone#* Background Singers – uncredited...
  
  
• 1972: Talking Book
  Talking Book
  Talking Book is the fifteenth album by Stevie Wonder, released on October 28, 1972. A signal recording of his "classic period", in this one he "hit his stride"...
  
  
• 1973: Innervisions
  Innervisions
  Innervisions is the sixteenth album by American musician Stevie Wonder, released August 3, 1973 on Motown Records; a landmark recording of his "classic period"...
  
  
• 1974: Fulfillingness' First Finale
  Fulfillingness' First Finale
  -Side One:#"Smile Please" – 3:28#*Stevie Wonder – lead vocal, background vocal, Fender Rhodes, drums#*Michael Sembello – electric guitar#*Reggie McBride – electric bass#*Bobbye Hall – congas, bongos#*Jim Gilstrap – background vocals...
  
  
• 1991: Jungle Fever
  Jungle Fever
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with the Isley Bros

• 1973: 3+3
• 1974: Live It Up
• 1975: The Heat Is On
• 1976: Harvest for the World
  Harvest for the World
  Harvest for the World is a 1976 album released by The Isley Brothers on their T-Neck imprint.-Reception:The album included the successful socially-conscious title track and the top three R&B record, "Who Loves You Better?" The album sold over 500,000 copies in the first three weeks of release,...
  
  

With Gil Scott-Heron

• 1978: Secrets (with Brian Jackson)
• 1980: Real Eyes
• 1981: Reflections
• 1982: Moving Target
• Shut 'Um Down; Angel Dust (singles)
• 1994: Spirits
• 2011: We're New Here
  We're New Here
  We're New Here is a remix album by American recording artist Gil Scott-Heron and English music producer Jamie "xx" Smith, released February 21, 2011, on XL Recordings and Young Turks Records. It is a reworking of Scott-Heron's studio album I'm New Here...
  
  (with Jamie xx)

Other Acts (Production, programming, engineering)

• Dave Mason - It's Like You Never Left (1973)
• Mandrill - Beast From The East (1975)
• Blood Donor - Rubber Revolution (1979 Taken from the Album 'Blood Donor')
• Savoy Brown - Kings Of Boogie (1989 Engineer [Recording])
• Mark Josephson - Dreamstate (1990)