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Will Lee

Born: September 8, 1950

Grammy Award-winning Will Lee is mostly known as a bassist for over three decades on Late Show with David Letterman, giving him the world’s record for longest-running bassist on late night television.  

Will has also lent his considerable talents to over 2,000 Pop, Jazz, Rock, Reggae and Gospel albums from Chaka Khan to Ricky Martin, Frank Sinatra to James Brown, Barbra Streisand to D’Angelo, Cat Stevens to Alicia Keys, Aretha Franklin to BB King, David Sanborn to Spyro Gyra & Bob James to Pat Metheny.

He has sung and played on an equal number of  TV and radio commercials as well as many movie soundtracks. 

A Trio Affair

By Mike Catalano

Label: Catman Records Inc.
Released: 2026
Track listing: Night Side Up; Bluesy; Remember When/Marcio's Theme ; Bossa Avenue; Moon Over Manhattan; Just a Little Samba; Dois Corregos (Two Streams); Take Me Back to Rio; Lembra De Mim (Remember me); Mission From Gadd; Christmas Time Is Here

Mike Catalano: A Trio Affair

by Pierre Giroux
September 23, 2026

There is something comforting about the way Mike Catalano's A Trio Affair brings his musical trilogy to a close. This release returns to where the story began in 1989 with A Rio Affair, followed 18 years later by A Manhattan Affair. Listening to this album, it feels as if Catalano is less interested in revisiting those ...

Billy Cobham's Time Machine Live At The Blue Note

by Chris DeRosa
March 28, 2025

Billy CobhamThe Blue Note New York, NY March 23, 2025 Hello, my name is Chris DeRosa and this is what I heard... What can be said about Billy Cobham to describe the powerhouse he is and the musical force he has been over the last six decades? ...

Billy Cobham's Time Machine at Blue Note Jazz Club

by Dan Bilawsky
March 26, 2025

Science has yet to crack the space-time continuum. Music, however, can manage to do the trick. Billy Cobham, proving that point during his six-night stand at New York's Blue Note, transported listeners to another era. The octogenarian drumming icon used this platform as an opportunity to revisit and update the sounds of the '70s (and beyond), ...

CTI Acid Jazz Grooves by Various Artists

by Arnaldo DeSouteiro
June 19, 2024

The CD you are holding in your hands is a very special compilation. It's the celebration of CTI as one of the most “sampled" labels on Earth! For the past ten years, many CTI tracks have been cut up, sampled, scratched and looped to create new songs for a new audience. Many of the selections on ...

Meet Drummer Danny Gottlieb

by Mike Brannon
March 16, 2024

This article was first published at All About Jazz in January 2001. If you don't know drummer Danny Gottlieb or you know him from only the earliest incarnations of the Pat Metheny Group, there's a lot you don't know about this talented, multi-faceted musician. Not complacent to rest on past laurels of any kind, ...

Celebrating The Third Story at 10 with Will Lee and Amanda Sidran

by Leo Sidran
February 4, 2024

Ten years ago, on a bit of a whim, I invited bassist Will Lee to come over to my home studio in Brooklyn to do an interview with me for a new project I was starting: a podcast. A year or two earlier, my friend had turned me on to Marc Maron's WTF podcast, and I ...

Dean Brown: Global Fusion on Acid

by Jim Worsley
February 3, 2024

In memory of Dean Brown. This interview was first published at All About Jazz on April 23, 2021. From the outset, the equation was simple enough. Jazz + rock = fusion. However, whether it was Miles Davis, Larry Coryell, John McLaughlin, or any of the pioneers of fusion, the music has always been far ...

Wig Glue (Single)

By Ray LeVier

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Wig Glue