Reuben Wilson

Reuben Wilson ( born April 9, 1935 in Mounds, Oklahoma) is an American soul jazz organist. He plays on the Hammond B3.

Reuben Wilson comes from Oklahoma and went to school in Pasadena, where he met Bobby Hutcherson. Wilson began self-taught with the piano and moved to Los Angeles, where he married a nightclub singer and came into contact with the local music scene at 17. During this time, he moved to the organ and occurred in the Caribbean Club. Finally he got to Richard " Groove" Holmes know who influenced his future style strong.

In December 1966 Wilson moved to New York, where he founded a trio with drummer Tommy Derrick, The Wildare Express, however, was only half a year. He then worked with Grant Green, Roy Haynes and Sam Rivers, as the Blue Note label became aware of him and completed a record deal with him.

He belonged to the list of soul-jazz organist with whom worked Blue Note in the 1960s; 1968-1971 he played for the label a five albums, but their observance in later years - should find - with the Revival of the Soul and Acid Jazz. His first album On Broadway was in quartet line-up with Tommy Derrick in October 1968. In March 1969, guest soloists like Lee Morgan and Grant Green, he recorded the album Love Bug. With his fourth album from 1970, Groovy Situation, Wilson suggested a more commercial orientation a; in July 1971 was created with Set Us Free his last album for Blue Note.

His career, however, came soon falter. He took the mid-1970s three albums and played as a session musician with jazz, funk and rock musicians. But in the late 1980s he experienced a comeback with the acid jazz and became a kind of cult figure.

Wilson's music was then rediscovered by a new generation of listeners; by sampling learned his title a revision; as in albums by bands like A Tribe Called Quest, Us3, Brand New Heavies, and Nas In 1995 he toured the Guru's Jazzamatazz Revue, wrote new songs and founded a formation; In 1996 he recorded two albums, Live at SOB 's and Organ Donor. 1997 was Organic Grooves Lonnie Smith and Doug Carn. In 2004 he recorded the album Fun House with Melvin Sparks.

Discography (selection)

  • On Broadway ( Blue Note Records, 1968)
  • Love Bug ( Blue Note, 1969)
  • Blue Mode ( Blue Note, 1969)
  • Groovy Situation ( Blue Note, 1970)
  • The Sweet Life ( Groove Merchant, 1972)
  • Bad Stuff ( Groove Merchant, 1973)
  • The Cisco Kid ( Groove Merchant, 1974)
  • The Sweet Life (1974 )
  • Bad Stuff ( 1975)
  • Got To Get Your Own ( 1975)
  • Down With It ( 1998)
  • Organ Donor (1998)
  • Organ Blues ( 2002)
  • Boogaloo To The Beastie Boys ( 2004)
  • Fun House (2005)
  • Movin 'On (2006)
  • The Godfathers of Groove (2008)
  • Azure Te (2009)
  • The Godfathers of Groove (2010)

Swell

  • Bielefeld catalog 1988 & 2002
  • Richard Cook & Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings, 8th Edition, London, Penguin, 2006 ISBN 0-141-02327-9
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