The New York Bass Violin Choir (Remastered) The New York Bass Violin Choir & Bill Lee

• 1 Keep Me in Mind 02:25
• 2 Biskit 04:19
• 3 John Coltrane 13:56
• 4 Horace Silver 04:10
• 5 Monica 03:32
• 6 Veronica 07:18
• 7 House of the Rising Sun 04:32
• Total Runtime 40:12

Info for The New York Bass Violin Choir (Remastered)

Founded by bassist, composer, and arranger Bill Lee as a collaboration of seven bassists—including Lisle Atkinson, Ron Carter, Richard Davis, Michael Fleming, Milt Hinton, and Sam Jones—The New York Bass Violin Choir album features Sonny Brown (percussion), George Coleman (saxophone), and Harold Mabern (piano) “performing excerpts from ‘Baby Sweets,’ a narrative folk-jazz opera written by Bill Lee and Sonny Brown.” Remastered directly from the original analog tapes, this Strata-East gem will be available in digital format for the first time.

Bill Lee, double bass, musical director
Lisle Atkinson, double bass
Michael Fleming, double bass
Milt Hinton, double bass
Richard Davis, double bass
Ron Carter, double bass
Sam Jones, double bass
Sonny Brown, percussion
Harold Mabern, piano
George Coleman, tenor saxophone

Digitally remastered

William James Edwards “Bill” Lee III
(born July 23, 1928) is an American musician. He has played the bass for many artists including Cat Stevens, Harry Belafonte, Chad Mitchell Trio, Gordon Lightfoot, Aretha Franklin, Odetta, Simon and Garfunkel, Ian & Sylvia, Tom Rush, Burt Bacharach, Peter, Paul and Mary, Arlo Guthrie, Tom Paxton, Carolyn Hester, John Lee Hooker, Josh White, Duke Ellington, Malvina Reynolds, Eric Bibb, The Clancy Brothers and Bob Dylan. On the original release of Dylan’s classic song “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue”, Lee on bass guitar is the only musician performing other than Dylan himself. He is the father of Spike Lee.

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