Rufrus Reid Out Front Trio + One at "We Always Swing" Jazz Series at Murry's

Doors open up 2:30pm
NOTE: 7:00pm performance; Doors open up at 6:00pm

f Rufus Reid isn’t in the pantheon of bassists, he’s darn close; that’s for sure. A master at technique, possessing a superlative tone, Reid’s career now approaches five decades. A Californian, he first gained attention in Chicago but it was shortly thereafter, when he arrived New York, where he rose to prominence and has remained on the jazz front lines. His professional associations date to the likes of the iconic: Dexter Gordon, when the saxophonist returned to the United States after spending 14 years abroad as an expatriate, and Stan Getz; there's his work with Thad Jones, Nancy Wilson and Eddie Harris...

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Doors open up 2:30pm
NOTE: 7:00pm performance; Doors open up at 6:00pm

f Rufus Reid isn’t in the pantheon of bassists, he’s darn close; that’s for sure. A master at technique, possessing a superlative tone, Reid’s career now approaches five decades. A Californian, he first gained attention in Chicago but it was shortly thereafter, when he arrived New York, where he rose to prominence and has remained on the jazz front lines. His professional associations date to the likes of the iconic: Dexter Gordon, when the saxophonist returned to the United States after spending 14 years abroad as an expatriate, and Stan Getz; there's his work with Thad Jones, Nancy Wilson and Eddie Harris. Reid appears on literally hundreds and hundreds of colleagues' and peers. recordings. More recently he has been releasing a series of extremely well-thought of sessions, working in a variety of contexts and configurations.

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