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Malcolm Cecil Quartet On The Main Stage at The Falcon
Courtesy of Sally Lynch | Posted on April 15, 2019
Where
The Falcon
1348 Rte 9w
Marlboro, NY
Map
845-236-7970
When
Sun, May 19, 2019
8:00 pm
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About
Although he initially made his name in the British jazz scene, Malcolm Cecil was a key figure in the development of the synthesizer and his best-known work was made in collaboration with soul legends.
After playing bass in a series of ’50s and ’60s jazz bands, Cecil was a founding member of Alexis Korner’s Blues Incorporated. But it was the possibilities provided by synthesizers that really excited him, and with Bob Margouleff he formed TONTO’s Expanding Head Band, releasing two albums of highly original music in 1971 and 1972. Interesting Note:
TONTO is an acronym for "The Original New Timbral Orchestra", the first, and still the largest, multitimbral polyphonic analog synthesizer in the world, designed and constructed over several years by Malcolm Cecil. ...