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Performed Songs By:

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  • Born: February 10, 1944, Atlanta, GA
  • Active: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, 2000s
  • Genres: Jazz
  • Instrument: Bass
  • Representative Albums: "Yours and Mine," "Seven Minds," "Perpetual Stroll"

Biography

A prolific bassist who's seemingly always in the recording studio, Rufus Reid's name appears on countless hard bop, bebop, swing, and even some pop sessions. His restrained yet emphatic and pungent tone, time, harmonic sensibility, and discernible, if understated, swing are welcome on any session. Trumpet was Reid's first love, but he switched to bass while in the Air Force. He played with Buddy Montgomery in Sacramento, CA, then studied music in Seattle and Chicago in the late '60s and early '70s. Reid worked in Chicago with Sonny Stitt, James Moody, Milt Jackson, Curtis Fuller, and Dizzy Gillespie, and recorded with Kenny Dorham, Dexter Gordon, Lee Konitz, and Howard McGhee in 1970. He toured internationally several times with the Bobby Hutcherson-Harold Land quintet, Freddie Hubbard, Nancy Wilson, Eddie Harris, and Gordon through the '70s. Reid moved to New York in 1976, playing and recording with a quartet co-led by Thad Jones and Mel Lewis, and taught at William Patterson College in Wayne, NJ, starting in 1979. He recorded with Konitz, Ricky Ford, Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition with Kenny Burrell, with a quintet co-led by Frank Wess and Art Farmer, and in duos with Kenny Burrell and Harold Danko in the '80s. Reid also did sessions with Art Farmer and Jimmy Heath. He has co-led a group with drummer Akira Tana since the late '80s that is called TanaReid. As a leader, Rufus Reid has cut sets for Theresa, Sunnyside, and Concord. ~ Ron Wynn, All Music Guide
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Rufus Reid

Rufus Reid (born February 10, 1944 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American jazz bassist, educator, and composer. He lives in Teaneck, New Jersey.[1]

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Personal history

Rufus Reid was raised in Sacramento, California where he played the trumpet through junior high and high school. Upon graduation from Sacramento High School, he entered the United States Air Force as a trumpet player. During that period he began to be seriously interested in the bass.

After fulfilling his duties in the military, Rufus had decided he wanted to pursue a career as a professional bassist. He moved to Seattle, Washington, where he began serious study with James Harnett of the Seattle Symphony. He continued his education at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where he studied with Warren Benfield and principal bassist, Joseph Guastefeste, both of the Chicago Symphony. He graduated in 1971 with a Bachelor of Music Degree as a Performance Major on the Double Bass.

Rufus Reid's major professional career began in Chicago and continues since 1976 in New York City. Playing with hundreds of the world's greatest musicians, he is famously the bassist that saxophonist Dexter Gordon chose when he returned to the states from his decade-long exile in France. His colleagues include Thad Jones, Nancy Wilson, Eddie Harris and Bob Berg

Discography

As leader

  • Live at the Kennedy Center (Motéma Music)
  • The Gait Keeper (Sunnyside Records)
  • Perpetual Stroll (Sunnyside Records)
  • Seven Minds (Sunnyside Records)
  • Corridor To The Limits (Sunnyside Records)
  • Myrth Song, with Harold Danko
  • Yours and Mine (Concord Records)
  • Passing Thoughts (Concord Records)
  • Blue Motion (Evidence Music)
  • Looking Forward (Evidence Music)
  • Back To Front (Evidence Music)
  • Double Bass Delights, with Michael Moore (Double Time Records)
  • Intimacy of the Bass, with Michael Moore (Double Time Records)
  • Song for Luis, with Ron Jackson (Mastermix Records)
  • Alone Together, with Peter Ind (Wave Records)

As sideman

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With Jack DeJohnette

With The Thad Jones/ Mel Lewis Orchestra

With Dexter Gordon

Books

Contributions to Education

Recognition/Awards

References

  1. ^ Beckerman, Jim. "Ben-Hur flavors his jazz with Middle Eastern spice", The Record (Bergen County), July 17, 2005. Accessed August 7, 2007. "Luckily, pianist John Hicks, drummer Leroy Williams, percussionist Steve Kroon and celebrated Teaneck bassist Rufus Reid were happy to go where Ben-Hur led."
  2. ^ William Paterson University Senate Minutes [1]
  3. ^ The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation[2]

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