Background
Reid, Rufus Lamar was born on February 10, 1944 in Atlanta. Son of Alvin and Sylvia Reid.
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THE EVOLVING BASSIST is designed to take you through the process to help you become that consummate bass player. It is dedicated to the student who may have difficulty finding and/or being able to afford a regular teacher. This method book is an aid to help you help yourself now. It will also continue to be be your reference book as you and your playing mature through the years.
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A value priced package of Rufus Reid's classic text The Evolving Bassist with his new DVD of the same name. On the DVD, Rufus demonstrates all the key concepts from the book. Additionally, the DVD features spectacular performances from Rufus with Mulgrew Miller on piano and Lewis Nash on drums.
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A comprehensive new edition based on major revisions to Reid's The Evolving Bassist and Evolving Upward. Contains more transcriptions of Reid's recorded solos, original compositions arranged as duets, new etudes, and additional ways to learn tunes and conceive better bass lines. The Evolving Bassist will continue to be an all-inclusive bass player's reference book as well as a classic method book.
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(A value priced package of Rufus Reid's classic text The E...)
A value priced package of Rufus Reid's classic text The Evolving Bassist with his new DVD of the same name. On the DVD, Rufus demonstrates all the key concepts from the book. Additionally, the DVD features spectacular performances from Rufus with Mulgrew Miller on piano and Lewis Nash on drums.
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Reid, Rufus Lamar was born on February 10, 1944 in Atlanta. Son of Alvin and Sylvia Reid.
He continued his education at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where he studied with Warren Benfield and principal bassist, Joseph Guastefeste, both of the Chicago Symphony. He graduated in 1971 with a Bachelor of Music Degree as a Performance Major on the Double Bass.
He lives in Teaneck, New Jersey. Reid was raised in Sacramento, California, where he played the trumpet through junior high and high school. Upon graduation from Sacramento High School, he entered the United States Air Force as a trumpet player.
During that period he began to be seriously interested in the bass.
After fulfilling his duties in the military, Rufus had decided he wanted to pursue a career as a professional bassist. He moved to Seattle, Washington, where he began serious study with James Harnett of the Seattle Symphony.
Rufus Reid"s major professional career began in Chicago and continues since 1976 in New York City. Playing with hundreds of the world"s greatest musicians, he is famously the bassist that saxophonist Dexter Gordon chose when he returned to the states from his decade-long exile in Denmark.
Jamey Aebersold Summer Jazz Workshops Stanford Jazz Workshop The Lake Placid Institute Professor Emeritus, William Paterson University, Jazz Studies and Performance program (1979–1999) The "Richard Davis Foundation for Young Bassists" Annual Bass Conference The Sligo Jazz Project Bass Coalition Summer Workshop Recognition/ 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship, Creative Arts / Music Composition category.
(THE EVOLVING BASSIST is designed to take you through the ...)
(A value priced package of Rufus Reid's classic text The E...)
(A value priced package of Rufus Reid's classic text The E...)
(A comprehensive new edition based on major revisions to R...)
Member International Association Jazz Educators (Humanitarian award, 1997, Jazz Educator Achievement award, 1998, New Jersey church Outstanding Educator, 1999).
Married Doris Audrey Bangs. 1 child, Michel Matthew.