Malcolm Cecil (9 January 1937 – 28 March 2021) was a British jazz bassist, record producer, engineer and electronic musician. He was a founding member of a leading UK jazz quintet of the late 1950s, the Jazz Couriers, before going on to join a number of British jazz combos led by Dick Morrissey, Tony Crombie and Ronnie Scott in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He later joined Cyril Davies and Alexis Korner to form the original line-up of Blues Incorporated. Cecil subsequently collaborated with Robert Margouleff to form the duo TONTO's Expanding Head Band, a project based on a unique combination of synthesizers which led to them collaborating on and co-producing several of Stevie Wonder's Grammy-winning albums of the early 1970s. The TONTO synthesizer was described by Rolling Stone as "revolutionary".
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Tonto's Expanding Head Band
British-American electronic music duo
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Robert Margouleff
American record producer
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Stevie Wonder
American singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
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Gil Scott-Heron
American musician, poet and author
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Brian Jackson
American musician
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Sylvia Moy
American songwriter and record producer (1938-2017)
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Gil Evans
American pianist
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Norman Brown
Smooth jazz guitarist
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Raphael Saadiq
American recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician, guitarist, and record producer
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The Last Poets
several groups of black poets active in the late 1960s Black Power movement