Rufus Reid
Rufus Reid ( born February 10, 1944 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American jazz bassist and high school teachers.
Life
Reid played as a student trumpet and joined after graduating from high school in the U.S. Air Force as a trumpeter at. He turned to the double bass. After the end of the period of service in the Air Force, he studied at the cellist of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, James Harnett, and then at Northwestern University in Evanston with Warren Benfield and Joseph Guastefeste the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. In 1971 he completed his studies with the degree of Bachelor of Music.
He then worked as a professional musician in Chicago, from 1976 in New York City. He worked with musicians such as Gene Ammons, Kenny Dorham, Eddie Harris, Sonny Stitt, Don Byas, Philly Joe Jones, Thad Jones, Mel Lewis, Dexter Gordon, Bill Evans, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Art Farmer, Lee Konitz, Roni Ben - Hur, Bob Mintzer, George Cables, Billy Hart, Bill Mays, John Stubblefield and Marvin tribe. He also led his own band, The Rufus Reid Quintet. With the drummer Akira Tana, he headed since the 1980s, the band TanaReid.
In addition to his work as a musician Reid also earned a reputation as a teacher. Since the early 1970s he was involved in, among other things at the Jamey Aebersold Summer Jazz Workshops and the Stanford University Jazz Workshop, since the late 1970s to 1999, he was a professor of jazz at the William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey. In 1971, his textbook The Evolving Bassist ( 2003 DVD).
Discography
- I Need Some Money by Eddie Harris, (1975 )
- Perpetual Stroll with Kirk Lightsey, Eddie Gladden, 1980
- Seven Minds ( Sunnyside, 1984) with Terri Lyne Carrington, Jim McNeely
- Corridor to the Limits with Harold Land, Victor Lewis, Rob Schneiderman, 1989
- Yours and Mine with Jesse Davis, Ralph Moore, Akira Tana, Rob Schneiderman, 1991
- Intimacy of the Bass ( Double Time, 1999) with Michael Moore
- Mirth song with Harold Danko
- Alone Together with Peter Ind
- The Gait Keeper ( Sunnyside, 2003) with Rich Perry, Fred Hendrix, John Stetch, Montez Coleman
- Quiet Pride ( Motema, 2014) with Herlin Riley, Vic Juris, Dennis Mackrel, Tim Hagans, Ingrid Jensen, Ryan Keberle, John Clark, Vincent Chancey, Steve Wilson