TMX Radio

Rufus Reid's major professional career began in Chicago and continues since 1976 in New York City. His extensive jazz background and discography reads literally like the Who's Who in jazz. He has traveled, performed and recorded with many of the great Jazz Masters. He was privileged to share many musical moments with some that have passed on: 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, and Art Farmer.

PUBLICATION: THE EVOLVING BASSIST, Millennium edition

CAREER FACT: Full Professor and Director of the Jazz Studies and Performance program at William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey, 1979-1999.

WEBSITE: www.rufusreid.com

TMX Radio Discography/Playlist:

Perpetual Stroll
- Perpetual Stroll
- Waltz for Doris
- One Finger Snap
- No Place is the End of the World
- Habiba
- Tricrotism

Seven Minds
- Seven Mind
- Along Came Betty
- Sunday’s Blues
- Stardust
- You Make Me Smile
- Ana Maria
- Tones for Joan’s Bones
- Struttin’ About

Corridor To The Limits
- To Start Again
- A Quiet Place
- Personal Space
- Swinging ‘Till The Girls Come Home
- Summary
- The Magical Look In Your Eyes
- Short Subject
- Corridor to the Limits
- Fall
- City Slicker

Looking Forward (by TanaReid)
- Billy
- Gold Minor
- The Duke
- Skyline
- Falling In Love
- Bell
- The Third Eye
- Reminiscing
- Love Dreams
- Looking Forward

Secret Agent Men (by Akira Tana)
- Secret Agent Man
- Mission Impossible Theme
- The Guardian
- In The Heat of the Night
- It’s Probably Me
- Alfred Hitchcock Theme
- Charade
- From Russia With Love
- When We Are Alone
- Struttin’ About
- Song For A Rainbow
- Navarac
- Chase Game

“…jazz must first of all tell a story that anyone can understand.” -Thelonious Monk

“…jazz must first of all tell a story that anyone can understand.”
-Thelonious Monk