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'''Steve Reid''' ([[January 29]], [[1944]]) is an [[United States|American]] [[jazz]] [[drum]]mer who has played with a wide range of notable artists including [[Miles Davis]], [[Ornette Coleman]], [[James Brown]], [[Fela Kuti]] and [[Sun Ra]], and as a session drummer for [[Motown]]. He was named ''[[JAZZIZ|Jazziz]]''’s "Percussionist of the Year" in [[1993]] and [[1995]].

{{Other people|Steve Reid}}

== Biographical ==

{{Infobox musical artist

He picked up drumming at age 16 and in the same period his family moved to Queens, NYC, three blocks away from [[John Coltrane]]. This was the early sixties which was a peak for Coltrane but also for the jazz scene in NYC. Before going to college, he worked at the Apollo Theatre, as a musician obviously, under the direction of [[Quincy Jones]].

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He then graduated at Adelphi University in Garden City, NY, and the made a three year trip to Africa, opening up his influences even more. He affirms Africa is the heart of drumming.

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|image = Steve Reid Circulo de Bellas Artes 2.JPG

|caption = Reid performing in Madrid in 2008

|birth_date = {{birth date|1944|1|29|mf=y}}

|birth_place = [[The Bronx, New York]], U.S.

|death_date = {{death date and age|2010|4|13|1944|1|29}}

|death_place = New York City

|genre = [[Jazz]], [[avant-garde jazz]], [[free jazz]]

|occupation = Musician

|instrument = Drums

|years_active = 1960–2009

|label = [[Motown]], Mustevic, [[Domino Recording Company|Domino]]

|associated_acts = [[Kieran Hebden]]

|website = {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100406080031/http://www.steve-reid.com:80/ |date=6 April 2010 |title=steve-reid.com}}

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'''Steve Reid''' (January 29, 1944 &ndash; April 13, 2010)<ref name="Breihan">{{cite web|url=http://pitchfork.com/news/38471-rip-jazz-drummer-steve-reid/|title=R.I.P. Jazz Drummer Steve Reid|last=Breihan|first=Tom|date=April 13, 2010|publisher=[[Pitchfork Media]]|access-date=22 April 2010}}</ref> was an American [[jazz]] drummer who played with [[Miles Davis]], [[Ornette Coleman]], [[James Brown]], [[Fela Kuti]], [[Four Tet|Kieran Hebden]], and [[Sun Ra]]. He worked as a session drummer for [[Motown]].

After this trip Reid started playing with some of the big names of Jazz and black music, including [[James Brown]], [[Sun Ra]], [[Ornette Coleman]], and [[Miles Davis]] (on the album ''Tutu'').

In 1969 Reid was arrested as conscientious objector. In an interview he affirms he didn't want to have anything to do with the war in Vietnam.

== Biography ==

Nessa, Tribe, ESP, Strata-East were some indie labels that shared the same radicalism as Reid, regarding matters such as the importance of pure music, the affirmation of black society, etc. At the same time new kinds of music groups, who worked out more as communes, were starting to form, such as Sun Ra's Arkestra, the [[Art Ensemble of Chicago]], Black Artist's Group, Tribe.

Born in the South Bronx,<ref name=jurek>{{cite web|last=Jurek|first=Thom|title=Steve Reid biography|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/steve-reid-mn0000037288|publisher=[[Allmusic]]|access-date=7 December 2012}}</ref> Reid started drumming at 16. His family moved to Queens, New York, three blocks away from [[John Coltrane]]. Before attending [[Adelphi University]] in Garden City, New York, he worked as part of the Apollo Theatre House Band and recorded with [[Martha and the Vandellas]] under the direction of [[Quincy Jones]].<ref name="NME">{{cite web|url=http://www.nme.com/news/james-brown/50650|title=James Brown, Miles Davis drummer Steve Reid dies|date=April 13, 2010 |publisher=NME.com|access-date=22 April 2010}}</ref>

In the early seventies Reid started his own label, Mustevic Sound Inc., obviously self-produced and distributed.

In 1969, Reid refused to register for the draft during the [[Vietnam War]].<ref name="Rugrat">{{cite web|url=http://basementrug.com/3599|title=Jazz drummer Steve Reid dead from Cancer at 66|last=Rugrat|date=14 April 2010|publisher=basementrug.com|access-date=23 April 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130117170255/http://basementrug.com/3599|archive-date=17 January 2013}}</ref> He was arrested as a conscientious objector and sentenced to a four-year prison sentence at [[Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary]], where he served with [[Jimmy Hoffa]]. After his release on parole in 1971, Reid found work as a session musician with [[Dionne Warwick]], [[Horace Silver]], [[Charles Tyler (musician)|Charles Tyler]], [[Sun Ra]], and [[Freddie Hubbard]], in addition to Broadway stage work.

Reid has now been living in Europe for several years (Lugano, Switzerland) and has released several recordings for labels such as Soul Jazz records in London, UK, and German jazz label CPR. For the past few releases, his ensemble has been based around Reid himself, Chuck Henderson (soprano saxophone; previous saxophonist Lena Bloch, tenor sax, left for the [[University of Massachusetts Amherst]] to play with the UMass Amherst jazz ensemble), Boris Netsvetaev (piano; living in Hamburg, Germany) and Chris Lachotta (double-bass; living in Munich, Germany).

In 1974, Reid formed the Legendary Master Brotherhood and his record label, Mustevic Sound.<ref name="Murph">{{cite web|url=http://jazztimes.com/articles/18489-steve-reid-walking-with-giants|title=Steve Reid: Walking with Giants|last=Murph|first=John|date=January–February 2008|publisher=[[JazzTimes]]|access-date=22 April 2010}}</ref>

== Music ==

He lived in [[Lugano]], Switzerland, for several years in later life and released several recordings for the English label [[Soul Jazz Records|Soul Jazz]] and the German label CPR. For his final albums, his band included Chuck Henderson (soprano saxophone), Boris Netsvetaev (piano), and Chris Lachotta (double-bass).

=== Recordings: ===

His ensemble's latest album ''Spirit Walk'' (Soul Jazz, 2005) features electronic musician Kieran Hebden, who also records solo as [[Four Tet]], on improvised electronics. Reid and Hebden have also collaborated on a series of releases called the "Exchange Sessions" (after the studio in London in which they were recorded), two volumes of which have been released to date, on Domino Records.

In 2006, Reid and electronic musician [[Kieran Hebden]],<ref>Dacks, David.[http://exclaim.ca/articles/multiarticlesub.aspx?csid1=118&csid2=4&fid1=29285 "Steve Reid's Rhythm Methods "] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090302005425/http://www.exclaim.ca/articles/multiarticlesub.aspx?csid1=118&csid2=4&fid1=29285 |date=2009-03-02 }}, ''[[Exclaim!]]'', February 2008.</ref> recorded the experimental album ''[[The Exchange Session Vol. 1]]''. The duo enjoyed this collaboration so much that they recorded three more albums: ''[[The Exchange Session Vol. 2]]'' (2006), ''[[Tongues (Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid album)|Tongues]]'' (2007), and ''[[NYC (Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid album)|NYC]]'' (2008). In an interview, Reid referred to Hebden as his "musical soul mate".<ref name="Murph" />

Additional recordings include ''Wave'', ''Invitation'', ''Live In Europe'' (2002, with Lena Bloch) and ''A Drum Story'' (2003).

On April 13, 2010, Reid died in New York of throat cancer.

== External links ==

*[http://www.steve-reid.com/ The Steve Reid website]

== Discography ==

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===As leader===

* ''Rhythmatism'' (Mustevic, 1976)

* ''Nova'' (Mustevic, 1976)

* ''Odyssey of the Oblong Square'' (Mustevic, 1977)

* ''Raw Material'' with Per Henrik Wallin, Kevin Ross (Dragon, 1983)

* ''A Drum Story'' (Altrisuoni, 2001)

* ''Waves'' (C. P., 2003)

* ''Spirit Walk'' (Soul Jazz, 2005)

* ''Daxaar (Recorded in Africa)'' (Domino, 2007)

'''With Kieran Hebden'''

* ''[[The Exchange Session Vol. 1]]'' (Domino, 2006)

* ''[[The Exchange Session Vol. 2]]'' (Domino, 2006)

* ''[[Tongues (Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid album)|Tongues]]'' (Domino, 2007)

* ''[[NYC (Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid album)|NYC]]'' (Domino, 2008)

* ''Live at the South Bank'' (Smalltown Superjazzz, 2011)

===As sideman===

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'''With [[Arthur Blythe]]'''

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* ''[[The Grip]]'' (India Navigation, 1977)

* ''[[Metamorphosis (Arthur Blythe album)|Metamorphosis]]'' (India Navigation, 1979)

'''With [[James Brown]]'''

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* ''[[The Popcorn (album)|The Popcorn]]'' (1969)

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'''With [[Ted Daniel]]'''

* ''In the Beginning'' (Altura, 1975)

'''With [[Miles Davis]]'''

* ''[[Tutu (album)|Tutu]]'' (1986)

'''With [[Fela Ransome Kuti]]'''

* ''Africa One''

'''With [[Frank Lowe]]'''

* ''Fresh'' (1975)

* ''Out Loud'' (2014)

'''With [[Martha and the Vandellas]]'''

*"[[Dancing in the Street]]" (Motown, 1964)

'''With [[Charles Tyler (musician)|Charles Tyler]]'''

* ''Voyage from Jericho'' (1975)

* ''Live in Europe'' (Umea, 1977)

* ''[[Saga of the Outlaws]]'' (Nessa, 1978)

* ''Folk and Mystery Stories'' (Sonet, 1980)

* ''Definite Volume 1'' (Storyville, 1982)

* ''Definite Volume 2'' (Storyville, 1984)

* ''At WKCR'' (2014)

'''With others'''

* [[Lorraine Feather]], ''The Body Remembers'' (Bean Bag, 1996)

* [[Jackiem Joyner]], ''Lil' Man Soul'' (Artistry, 2009)

* [[Dave Koz]], ''[[Dave Koz (album)|Dave Koz]]'' (Capitol, 1990)

* [[Nelson Rangell]], ''In Every Moment'' (GRP, 1992)

* [[Richard Smith (American guitarist)|Richard Smith]], ''From My Window'' (Brainchild, 1994)

==References==

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==External links==

*{{Discogs artist}}

*[https://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A11817911 Steve Reid] article at the [[BBC]]

*[http://www.prefixmag.com/reviews/kieran-hebden-and-steve-reid/nyc/22877 Steve Reid] article at ''Prefix Magazine''

*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090302005425/http://www.exclaim.ca/articles/multiarticlesub.aspx?csid1=118&csid2=4&fid1=29285 Steve Reid] article at Exclaim, February 2008

*[http://www.dominorecordco.com/artists/steve-reid-ensemble Steve Reid] interview at [[Domino Recording Company]]

*[http://www.rockpaperscissors.biz/index.cfm/fuseaction/current.articles_detail/project_id/342/article_id/8172.cfm Steve Reid] interview with P Sullivan at [[Wax Poetics]]

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