“We’d all been struggling with the track – I remember Ralph MacDonald’s hands were bleeding!” Longtime David Letterman bassist Will Lee recalls his toughest recording date in NYC

Bassist WIll Lee and The Fab Faux perform at City Winery on December 27, 2016 in New York City.

By his own admission, bassist Will Lee was spoiled by his early New York City experiences. Plucked from Miami to join the potent-but-doomed fusion band Dreams in 1971, Lee was soon doing jingles, album dates with Roberta Flack and Barry Manilow, and tours with Horace Silver and Bette Midler. 

Meanwhile, at keyboardist Don Grolnick's small apartment on Carmine Street in the Village, he began rehearsing music that would become a cornerstone of the budding fusion movement and change contemporary jazz forever.