Jazz
Rufus Reid - Arranger, Bass, Composer, Executive Producer, Liner Notes, Producer
Amy Mitten - Project Coordinator
Bobby Watson - Sax (Alto), Sax (Tenor)
Dae Bennett - Engineer, Mastering, Mixing
Don Aliquo - Composer
Duduka Da Fonseca - Composer, Drums
Eubie Blake - Composer
Freddie Hendrix - Flugelhorn, Trumpet
Harold Arlen - Composer
Harry Link - Composer
J.D. Allen - Sax (Alto), Sax (Tenor)
Jack Strachey - Composer
Johnny Mercer - Composer
R. Andrew Lepley - Photography
Rebecca Meek - Package Design
Steve Alee - Piano
Steve Allee - Composer, Piano
Suzi Reynolds - Mixing, Producer
Toninho Horta - Composer, Guitar, Vocals
Features top Brazilian guitarist/vocalist Toninho Horta, jazz legend Bobby Watson, rising trumpet star Freddie Hendrix (toured with Alicia Keys and Roy Hargrove), and media darling JD Allen.
Rufus Reid
Active Decades: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: Feb 10, 1944 in Atlanta, GA
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Post-Bop
A prolific bassist who's seemingly always in the recording studio, R. 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 |
