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David Bertram "Dave" Reaper ( born May 19, 1948 in Newark, New Jersey ) is an American musician ( saxophone, and occasionally flute, vocals) of modern jazz that is deeply entrenched in the black tradition. " His influences ," writes the critic John Howard, " ranging from Bird to Coltrane with Sonny Stitt and Sonny Rollins. "

Life and work

Reaper, who as a child had clarinet lessons and fifteen years in addition learned tenor sax, studied at Jersey City State College Clarinet. He began as a dance musician, played with rock bands and then moved to New York, where he appeared with Ted Dunbar, and from 1972 with its own group. He played with Joe Newman, Frank Foster, Howard McGhee and Wilbur Little. From 1974 to 1981 he was a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers at (together with Valery Ponomarev, Curtis Fuller and Bobby Watson), with whom he was on several international tours and grossed plates. Reaper looked at Harry Whitaker 1976 debut album, then played with Freddie Hubbard ( 1979-1982 ) and worked with Charles Earland and Richard Groove Holmes. David reaper took from 1976 to 1981 four albums for the label Muse, but then disappeared from the American jazz scene. In Spain, where he has lived since 1991, he performed with Johnny Griffin, Slide Hampton on, Gary Bartz, Sal Nistico, Tete Montoliu and Bobby Hutcherson. In 1996 he was involved in the collaborative project with 90 ° 100 % Humidity with Jimmy Madison. In 2002, he presented a new quartet in the New York club Smoke. At his quartet album Sketch James Zollar, Thomas Bramerie and Jimmy Madison worked with.

Since 1995 it belongs to the faculty of the New School University Jazz Program.

Disco Graphical Notes

• Invitation ( Muse Records, 1976)
• Goliath ( Muse, 1977)
• Thundering ( Muse, 1978)
• Glowings ( Muse, 1981)
• Sketch ( Omix, 2004)
• The Spirit of Things ( CIMP, 2007), with Dominic Duval, Newman Taylor Baker