REGGIE WORKMAN - composer,
bassist, LIVING LEGACY AWARD recipient Born
in Philadelphia Reggie Workman became fond of music in his high school years.
Starting in1959, he became a member of groups with: John Coltrane, Art Blakey
Jazz Messengers, Lee Morgan, Thelonious Monk, Booker Little, Elvin Jones,
Alice Coltrane, Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter and many others. One of his
best works is recording with John Coltrane on Africa Bass. Mr. Workman soon
became one of the key representatives in the growing world of jazz music. In
1983 he started to write music for dancers and produced with Maya Milenovic a
series of concerts and educational workshops in New York. His collaboration with Alice
Coltrane resulted in one of the most memorable concerts of John Coltrane
Legacy in New York’s Cathedral St. John Divine in 1987. He
has been a professor of music at the New School University (NYC) since 1987.
His influence on American jazz is unlimited. REGGIE WORKMAN - skladatelj,
basist, dobitnik LIVING LEGACY AWARD Rodil
se je v Philadelphiji. Že
gimnaziji je vzljubil glasbo in se odločil za kontrabas. Med 1959 – 1969 je že igral z
velikani jazza, kot so bili: John Coltrane, Art Blakey, Lee Morgan,
Thelonious Monk, Booker Little, Elvin Jones, Alice Coltrane, Freddie Hubbard,
Wayne Shorter in mnogi drugi. Čeprav je bilo eno njegovih najboljših del
posneto z Johnom Coltranom (Africa Brass), je že na začetku 70-ih let Reggie
utrdil svoje mesto v jazzovskem svetu. Leta 1983 je začel pisati skladbe za
plesalce in z Majo Milenović produciral vrsto plesno-glasbenih predstav v New
Yorku. Njegovo prijateljstvo z Alice Coltrane je pripeljalo do velikega
koncerta v New Yorku leta 1987 “The Coltrane Legacy”, ki ga je Reggie Workman
(skupaj z Mayo Milenovic) produciral in vodil. Od
leta 1987 je redni profesor na New School University Jazz and Contemporary
Music studies Program, kjer uči basiste, jazz skupine in producira koncerte. Njegov
glasbeni in pedagoški vpliv na ameriški jazz je praktično neizmerljiv. |
