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Reginald "Reggie" Workman (born June 26, 1937) is an American
avant-garde jazz Avant-garde jazz (also known as avant-jazz, experimental jazz, or "new thing") is a style of music and improvisation that combines avant-garde art music and composition with jazz. It originated in the early 1950s and developed through the late 1 ...
and
hard bop Hard bop is a subgenre of jazz that is an extension of bebop (or "bop") music. Journalists and record companies began using the term in the mid-1950s to describe a new current within jazz that incorporated influences from rhythm and blues, gospe ...
double bassist, recognized for his work with both
John Coltrane John William Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967) was an American jazz saxophonist, bandleader and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the Jazz#Post-war jazz, history of jazz and 20th-century musi ...
and
Art Blakey Arthur Blakey (October 11, 1919 – October 16, 1990) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. He was also known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina after he converted to Islam for a short time in the late 1940s. Blakey made a name for himself in the 1 ...
, in addition to Alice Coltrane,
Mal Waldron Malcolm Earl "Mal" Waldron (August 16, 1925 – December 2, 2002) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. He started playing professionally in New York in 1950, after graduating from college. In the following dozen years or so Wa ...
,
Max Roach Maxwell Lemuel Roach (January 10, 1924 – August 16, 2007) was an American jazz drummer and composer. A pioneer of bebop, he worked in many other styles of music, and is generally considered one of the most important drummers in history. He wo ...
,
Archie Shepp Archie Shepp (born May 24, 1937) is an American jazz saxophonist, educator and playwright who since the 1960s has played a central part in the development of avant-garde jazz. Biography Early life Shepp was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, but ...
, Trio Three (with
Oliver Lake Oliver Lake (born September 14, 1942) is an American List of jazz saxophonists, jazz saxophonist, flutist, composer, poet, and visual artist. He is known mainly for alto saxophone, but he also performs on soprano saxophone, soprano and flute. D ...
and
Andrew Cyrille Andrew Charles Cyrille (born November 10, 1939) is an American avant-garde jazz drummer. Throughout his career, he has performed both as a leader and a sideman in the bands of Walt Dickerson and Cecil Taylor, among others. AllMusic biographer ...
), Trio Transition, the Reggie Workman Ensemble, and collaborative projects with dance, poetry and drama.


Career

Early in his career, Workman worked in jazz groups led by Freddie Cole,
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,
Donald Byrd Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II (December 9, 1932 – February 4, 2013) was an American jazz and rhythm & blues trumpeter, composer and vocalist. A sideman for many other jazz musicians of his generation, Byrd was one of the few h ...
,
Duke Jordan Irving Sidney "Duke" Jordan (April 1, 1922 – August 8, 2006) was an American jazz pianist. Biography Jordan was born in New York and raised in Brooklyn where he attended Boys High School. An imaginative and gifted pianist, Jordan was a regul ...
and
Booker Little Booker Little Jr. (April 2, 1938 – October 5, 1961)
– accessed June 2010 was an American
. In 1961, Workman joined the
John Coltrane John William Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967) was an American jazz saxophonist, bandleader and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the Jazz#Post-war jazz, history of jazz and 20th-century musi ...
Quartet, replacing
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. He was present for the saxophonist's ''Live at the Village Vanguard'' sessions, and also recorded with a second bassist ( Art Davis) on the 1961 album, '' Olé Coltrane''. Workman left Coltrane's group at the end of the year, following a European tour and recording Africa Brass. In 1962, Workman joined
Art Blakey Arthur Blakey (October 11, 1919 – October 16, 1990) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. He was also known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina after he converted to Islam for a short time in the late 1940s. Blakey made a name for himself in the 1 ...
's Jazz Messengers (replacing long-time Blakey bassist
Jymie Merritt Jymie Merritt (; May 3, 1926 – April 10, 2020) was an American jazz bassist, bandleader, and composer. Merritt was a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers group from 1957 until 1962. The same year he left Blakey's band, Merritt formed his own ...
), and worked alongside
Freddie Hubbard Frederick Dewayne Hubbard (April 7, 1938 – December 29, 2008) was an American jazz trumpeter. He played bebop, hard bop, and post-bop styles from the early 1960s onwards. His unmistakable and influential tone contributed to new perspectives fo ...
,
Wayne Shorter Wayne Shorter (August 25, 1933 – March 2, 2023) was an American jazz saxophonist, composer and bandleader. Shorter came to mainstream prominence in 1959 upon joining Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, for whom he eventually became the primary comp ...
, and
Cedar Walton Cedar Anthony Walton Jr. (January 17, 1934 – August 19, 2013) was an American hard bop jazz pianist. He came to prominence as a member of drummer Art Blakey's band, The Jazz Messengers, before establishing a long career as a bandleader and c ...
for most of his time. Workman left Blakey's group in 1964. Workman also played with Freddie Cole, Lee Morgan, James Moody,
Yusef Lateef Yusef Abdul Lateef (born William Emanuel Huddleston; October 9, 1920 – December 23, 2013) was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, and prominent figure among the Ahmadiyya Community in the United States. Although Lateef's main i ...
,
Pharoah Sanders Pharoah Sanders (born Ferrell Lee Sanders; October 13, 1940 – September 24, 2022) was an American jazz saxophonist. Known for his overblowing, harmonic, and multiphonic techniques on the saxophone, as well as his use of "sheets of sound", San ...
,
Herbie Mann Herbert Jay Solomon (April 16, 1930 – July 1, 2003), known by his stage name Herbie Mann, was an American jazz Flute, flute player and important early practitioner of world music. Early in his career, he also played tenor saxophone and clarinet ...
and
Thelonious Monk Thelonious Sphere Monk ( October 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982) was an American Jazz piano, jazz pianist and composer. He had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the Jazz standard, standard jazz repertoire, includ ...
. He has recorded with
Archie Shepp Archie Shepp (born May 24, 1937) is an American jazz saxophonist, educator and playwright who since the 1960s has played a central part in the development of avant-garde jazz. Biography Early life Shepp was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, but ...
,
Lee Morgan Edward Lee Morgan (July 10, 1938 – February 19, 1972) was an American jazz trumpeter and composer. One of the key hard bop musicians of the 1960s and a cornerstone of the Blue Note Records, Blue Note label, Morgan came to prominence in his la ...
and David Murray. Workman, with pianist Tommy Flanagan and drummer
Joe Chambers Joe Chambers (born June 25, 1942) is an American jazz drummer, pianist, vibraphonist and composer. In the 1960s and 1970s, Chambers gigged with many high-profile artists such as Eric Dolphy, Charles Mingus, Wayne Shorter, and Chick Corea an ...
, formed The Super Jazz Trio in 1978.Dryden, Ke
"Tommy Flanagan's Super Jazz Trio – Condado Beach"
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. Retrieved March 16, 2017. As of 1987, he was a professor at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York City, and was a member of the group, Trio 3, with
Oliver Lake Oliver Lake (born September 14, 1942) is an American List of jazz saxophonists, jazz saxophonist, flutist, composer, poet, and visual artist. He is known mainly for alto saxophone, but he also performs on soprano saxophone, soprano and flute. D ...
and
Andrew Cyrille Andrew Charles Cyrille (born November 10, 1939) is an American avant-garde jazz drummer. Throughout his career, he has performed both as a leader and a sideman in the bands of Walt Dickerson and Cecil Taylor, among others. AllMusic biographer ...
. In 1984 he started an on-going performance arts collaborations with writer/director/choreographer Maya Milenovic Workman. Recent works include: "Dos Worlds" "Ophelia's Ocean" & "Guernica Continuum."


Personal life

Workman has three children, Nioka Workman (cellist), Olu Workman (entrepreneur), and Ayana Workman (actor/dancer/poet). Workman lived in Montclair, NJ from 1994 - 2005 and is currently a resident of Harlem, New York City.


Honors and awards

In 1997, Workman was named as the recipient of a Life Achievement Award by the
Jazz Foundation of America The Jazz Foundation of America (JFA) is a non-profit organization based in Manhattan, New York that was founded in 1989. Its programs seek to help jazz and blues musicians in need of emergency funds and connect them with performance opportunitie ...
and was awarded a citation of excellence by the International Association of Jazz Educators. In 1999, the
Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation The Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation (MAAF), headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, is one of six Non-profit organization, not-for-profit Regional arts council (RAO), regional arts organizations funded by the National Endowment for ...
presented him with its Living Legacy Award. In 2020, he received a
Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are Grant (money), grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon Guggenheim, Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim. These awards are bestowed upon indiv ...
in music composition in collaboration with Maya Milenovic Workman and was named by the National Endowment of the Arts an NEA Jazz Master.


Discography


As leader/co-leader

* 1977: ''Conversation'' with Cecil Bridgewater,
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, George Adams, Albert Dailey, Michael Carvin, Lawrence Killian (Denon, 1979) * 1978: ''The Works of Workman'' (Denon, 1979) * 1986: ''
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'' ( Music & Arts) * 1993: '' Altered Spaces'' (Leo) * 1994: '' Summit Conference'' (
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) * 1995: '' Cerebral Caverns'' (Postcards) With the Super Jazz Trio * ''City'' with Hidefumi Toki (Baystate, 1978) * '' The Super Jazz Trio'' (Baystate, 1979) – rec. 1978 * '' Something Tasty'' With
Art Farmer Arthur Stewart Farmer (August 21, 1928 – October 4, 1999) was an American jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player. He also played flumpet, a trumpet–flugelhorn combination especially designed for him. He and his identical twin brother, doub ...
(Baystate, 1979) * '' The Standard'' (Baystate, 1980) With Trio Transition *'' Trio Transition'' (DIW, 1987) *'' Trio Transition with Special Guest Oliver Lake'' (DIW, 1988) With Trio 3 *'' Live in Willisau'' (Dizim, 1997) *'' Encounter'' (Passin' Thru, 2000) *'' Open Ideas'' (Palmetto, 2002) *'' Time Being'' (Intakt, 2006) *'' Wha's Nine: Live at the Sunset'' (Marge, 2008) *'' Berne Concert'' with Irene Schweizer (Intakt, 2009) *'' At This Time'' (Intakt, 2009) *'' Celebrating Mary Lou Williams–Live at Birdland New York'' with Geri Allen (Intakt, 2011) *''
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'' (Intakt, 2013) *'' Wiring'' (Intakt, 2014) *'' Visiting Texture'' (Intakt, 2017)


As supporting artist

With Juhani Aaltonen * ''Strings Revisited'' (Tum, 2002) * ''Reflections'' (Tum, 2004) with
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* ''Prana / Live at Groovy'' (Leo, 1982) With
Roy Ayers Roy Edward Ayers Jr. (September 10, 1940 – March 4, 2025) was an American vibraphonist, record producer, and composer. Ayers began his career as a post-bop jazz artist, releasing several studio albums with Atlantic Records, before his tenure ...
* '' Virgo Vibes'' (Atlantic, 1967) With Gary Bartz * '' Another Earth'' (
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Art Blakey Arthur Blakey (October 11, 1919 – October 16, 1990) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. He was also known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina after he converted to Islam for a short time in the late 1940s. Blakey made a name for himself in the 1 ...
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'' (Riverside, 1963) * '' Ugetsu'' ( Riverside, 1963) * '' Free for All'' (Blue Note, 1964) * ''
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'' (Riverside, 1964) * '' Indestructible'' (Blue Note, 1964) * '' Golden Boy'' ( Colpix, 1964) With
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* ''Orchestra Duet and Septet'' (Chiaroscuro, 1977) With The Bridgewater Brothers * ''Lightning and Thunder'' (Denon, 1977) * ''Generation Suite'' (Denon, 1978) With
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* ''Ethnic Expressions'' (Im-Hotep, 1973) * ''Live At Town Hall'' (Baystate, 1978) With
Marion Brown Marion Brown (September 8, 1931 – October 18, 2010) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, composer, writer, visual artist, and ethnomusicologist. He was a member of the avant-garde jazz scene in New York City during the 1960s, playing alongsi ...
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'' (Impulse!, 1975) * ''Passion Flower'' (Baystate, 1978) With
Donald Byrd Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II (December 9, 1932 – February 4, 2013) was an American jazz and rhythm & blues trumpeter, composer and vocalist. A sideman for many other jazz musicians of his generation, Byrd was one of the few h ...
* '' Byrd in Flight'' (Blue Note, 1960) With Don Byron * '' Tuskegee Experiments'' (Nonesuch, 1990-91
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With Steve Cohn * ''Shapes, Sounds, Theories'' (Cadence Jazz, 1984) * ''Bridge Over the X-Stream'' (Leo, 1999) With Earl Coleman *''Manhattan Serenade'' (1968) With
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*'' Katumbo'' (Mainstream, 1971) With Adegoke Steve Colson * ''The Untarnished Dream'' (Silver Sphinx, 2009) With Alice Coltrane * '' World Galaxy'' (Impulse!, 1972) * '' Transfiguration'' (Warner Bros. Master, 1978) With
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*'' Africa/Brass'' (Impulse!, 1961) *'' Ole Coltrane'' (Atlantic, 1961) *'' The Complete Copenhagen Concert'' (Magnetic, 1961) *'' Coltrane "Live" at the Village Vanguard'' (Impulse!, 1961 962 *'' The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings'' (Impulse!, 1961
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– contains recordings also on ''Impressions'' and the above release *'' Newport '63'' (Impulse!, 1961
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*'' Impressions'' (Impulse!, 1961–1963
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*'' Live Trane: The European Tours'' (Pablo, 1961-1963 001 *'' So Many Things: The European Tour 1961'' (Acrobat, 1961
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*'' Evenings at the Village Gate: John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy'' (Impulse!, 1961 023 With Stanley Cowell *'' Brilliant Circles'' (Freedom, 1972) *''Such Great Friends'' (1983) with Billy Harper and
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With Marilyn Crispell * ''
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'' (Leo, 1988) * '' Live in San Francisco'' (Music & Arts, 1989) * '' Live in Zurich'' (Leo, 1990) * ''
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* '' My Friend Louis'' (DIW, 1992) With Sussan Deyhim * ''Madman of God: Divine Love Songs of the Persian Sufi Masters'' (Cramworld, 2000) * ''Shy Angels: Reconstruction and Mix Translation of Madman of God'' (Cramworld, 2002) with
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Eric Dolphy Eric Allan Dolphy Jr. (June 20, 1928 – June 29, 1964) was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, and bandleader. Primarily an alto saxophonist, bass clarinetist, and flautist, Dolphy was one of several multi-instrumentalists to gain ...
* '' Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise'' (Natasha, 1961) With
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*'' The Space Book'' (Prestige, 1964) *'' The Trance'' (Prestige, 1965) *'' Setting the Pace'' (Prestige, 1965) – with
Dexter Gordon Dexter Gordon (February 27, 1923 – April 25, 1990) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and bandleader. He was among the most influential early bebop musicians. Gordon's height was , so he was also known as "Long Tall Dexter" an ...
With Mario Escalera * ''Blue Mondays'' (Phoenix, 1981) With Chris Fagan * ''Lost Bohemia'' (Open Minds, 1992) With
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* '' New York Jazz Sextet: Group Therapy'' (Scepter, 1966) With
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*'' Awakening'' (Horizon, 1975) * ''In the Spirit of John Coltrane'' (Shanachie, 2000) With
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* ''Art-Work'' (Origin, 2008) With
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*'' Goin' West'' (Blue Note, 1962) With
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*'' Saying Somethin'!'' (New Jazz, 1960) *'' Reminiscin''' (Mercury, 1960) With Billy Harper *'' Capra Black'' (Strata-East, 1973) With Andrew Hill *''
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With Terumasa Hino * ''Love Nature'' (Canyon/Love, 1971) * ''Peace and Love'' (Canyon/Love, 1971) * ''A Part'' (Canyon/Love, 1971) * ''Double Rainbow'' (CBS/Sony, 1981) With Takehiro Honda *''Jodo'' (Trio, 1972) With
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*'' Hub-Tones'' (Blue Note, 1962) *'' Here to Stay'' (Blue Note, 1962) * '' The Body & the Soul'' (Impulse!, 1964) * '' The Black Angel'' (Atlantic, 1970) With
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'' (Blue Note, 1968) With The Jazz Composer's Orchestra * '' The Jazz Composer's Orchestra'' (JCOA, 1968) With
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* '' Brother John'' (1982) With
Clifford Jordan Clifford Laconia Jordan (September 2, 1931 – March 27, 1993) was an American jazz tenor saxophone player and composer. Originally from Chicago, Jordan later moved to New York City, where he recorded extensively in addition to touring across ...
*'' Hello, Hank Jones'' (Eastworld, 1978) With
Duke Jordan Irving Sidney "Duke" Jordan (April 1, 1922 – August 8, 2006) was an American jazz pianist. Biography Jordan was born in New York and raised in Brooklyn where he attended Boys High School. An imaginative and gifted pianist, Jordan was a regul ...
*'' Flight to Jordan'' (Blue Note, 1960) With
Oliver Lake Oliver Lake (born September 14, 1942) is an American List of jazz saxophonists, jazz saxophonist, flutist, composer, poet, and visual artist. He is known mainly for alto saxophone, but he also performs on soprano saxophone, soprano and flute. D ...
*'' Again and Again'' (Gramavision, 1991) *'' Edge-ing'' (Black Saint, 1993) With
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*'' Booker Little and Friend'' (Bethlehem, 1961) With
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* '' Time's Up'' (Epic, 1990) With
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*'' Our Mann Flute'' (Atlantic, 1966) *'' Impressions of the Middle East'' (Atlantic, 1966) *'' A Mann & A Woman'' (Atlantic, 1966) with Tamiko Jones *'' The Beat Goes On'' (Atlantic, 1967) *'' The Wailing Dervishes'' (Atlantic, 1967) * '' New Mann at Newport'' (Atlantic, 1967) With Miya Masaoka * ''Monk's Japanese Folk Song'' (Dizim, 1997) With Cristina Mazza * ''Where Are You?'' (Il Posto, 1989) With Ken McIntyre *''
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Roscoe Mitchell Roscoe Mitchell (born August 3, 1940) is an American composer, jazz instrumentalist, and educator, known for being "a technically superb – if idiosyncratic – saxophonist". ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz'' described him as "one of the key figure ...
*'' In Walked Buckner'' (Delmark, 1999) With
Grachan Moncur III Grachan Moncur III (June 3, 1937 – June 3, 2022) was an American jazz trombonist. He was the son of jazz bassist Grachan Moncur II and the nephew of jazz saxophonist Al Cooper. Biography Born in New York City, United States, (his paternal gra ...
* ''Shadows'' (Denon, 1977) With James Moody * ''Running The Gamut'' (Scepter, 1965) With
Lee Morgan Edward Lee Morgan (July 10, 1938 – February 19, 1972) was an American jazz trumpeter and composer. One of the key hard bop musicians of the 1960s and a cornerstone of the Blue Note Records, Blue Note label, Morgan came to prominence in his la ...
*'' Search For The New Land'' (Blue Note, 1964) *''
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'' (Blue Note, 1965 981 *'' Caramba!'' (blue Note, 1968) *'' Taru'' (Blue Note, 1968) *''Live in Baltimore 1968'' (Fresh Sound Records, 1968) with Clifford Jordan *'' The Last Session'' (Blue Note, 1971 972 With David Murray * '' Morning Song'' (Black Saint, 1983) With New York Art Quartet *'' Mohawk'' (Fontana, 1965) *'' 35th Reunion'' (DIW, 2000) *'' Call It Art'' (Triple Point, 2013) With
Dave Pike David Samuel Pike (March 23, 1938 – October 3, 2015) was an American jazz vibraphone and marimba player. He appeared on many albums by Nick Brignola, Paul Bley and Kenny Clarke, Bill Evans, and Herbie Mann. He also recorded extensively as l ...
*'' It's Time for Dave Pike'' (Riverside, 1961) With Sam Rivers * ''
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Max Roach Maxwell Lemuel Roach (January 10, 1924 – August 16, 2007) was an American jazz drummer and composer. A pioneer of bebop, he worked in many other styles of music, and is generally considered one of the most important drummers in history. He wo ...
* ''Nommo'' (Victor, 1976) * ''Live in Tokyo'' (Denon, 1977) * ''The Loadstar'' (Horo, 1977) * ''Live in Amsterdam'' (Baystate, 1977) With Charlie Rouse * ''We Paid Our Dues!'' (Epic, 1961) With Hilton Ruiz * ''Fantasia'' (Denon, 1977) With
Pharoah Sanders Pharoah Sanders (born Ferrell Lee Sanders; October 13, 1940 – September 24, 2022) was an American jazz saxophonist. Known for his overblowing, harmonic, and multiphonic techniques on the saxophone, as well as his use of "sheets of sound", San ...
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'' (1969) With Ellen May Shashoyan * ''Song For My Father'' (New Ark, 1989) With
Archie Shepp Archie Shepp (born May 24, 1937) is an American jazz saxophonist, educator and playwright who since the 1960s has played a central part in the development of avant-garde jazz. Biography Early life Shepp was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, but ...
*'' Archie Shepp – Bill Dixon Quartet'' (1962) * '' Four for Trane'' (Impulse!, 1964) *'' The Magic of Ju-Ju'' (Impulse!, 1967) * ''Ballads for Trane'' (Denon, 1977) * '' Live in New York'' (Verve, 2001) with
Roswell Rudd Roswell Hopkins Rudd Jr. (November 17, 1935 – December 21, 2017) was an American jazz trombonist and composer. Although skilled in a variety of genres of jazz (including Dixieland, which he performed while in college), and other genres of musi ...
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Wayne Shorter Wayne Shorter (August 25, 1933 – March 2, 2023) was an American jazz saxophonist, composer and bandleader. Shorter came to mainstream prominence in 1959 upon joining Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, for whom he eventually became the primary comp ...
*'' Night Dreamer'' (1964) *'' JuJu'' (1964) *''
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Sonny Simmons Huey "Sonny" Simmons (August 4, 1933 – April 6, 2021) was an American jazz musician. Biography Simmons was born on August 4, 1933, in Sicily Island, Louisiana. He grew up in Oakland, California, where he began playing the English horn. (Along ...
*''American Jungle'' (1997) With Heiner Stadler * ''Brains on Fire'' (Labor Records, 1966–73) * ''Ecstasy'' (Labor, 1973) with Walter Steffens * ''A Tribute to Monk and Bird'' (Tomato, 1978) with
Thad Jones Thaddeus Joseph Jones (March 28, 1923 – August 20, 1986) was an American jazz trumpeter, composer and bandleader who has been called "one of the all-time greatest jazz trumpet soloists". Early life, family and education Thad Jones was born i ...
, George Adams, George Lewis, Stanley Cowell, and Lenny White * ''Jazz Alchemy'' (Tomato, 1989) With
Sonny Stitt Sonny Stitt (born Edward Hammond Boatner Jr.; February 2, 1924 – July 22, 1982) was an American jazz saxophonist of the bebop/hard bop idiom. Known for his warm tone, he was one of the best-documented saxophonists of his era, recording over ...
* ''Moonlight in Vermont'' (Denon, 1977) With Monnette Sudler * ''Other Side of the Gemini'' (Hardly, 1988) With Aki Takase * ''Clapping Music'' (Enja, 1995) With Horace Tapscott *'' Aiee! The Phantom'' (Arabesque, 1996) With
John Tchicai John Martin Tchicai ( ; 28 April 1936 – 8 October 2012) was a Danish free jazz saxophonist and composer. Biography Tchicai was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, to a Danish mother and a Congolese father. The family moved to Aarhus, where he s ...
and Andrew Cyrille * ''Witch's Scream'' (TUM, 2006) With Charles Tolliver *'' Live at the Loosdrecht Jazz Festival'' (Strata-East, 1973) *''
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'' (Strata-East, 1975) * '' Emperor March: Live at the Blue Note'' (Half Note, 2008) With Mickey Tucker * ''Blues in Five Dimensions'' (SteepleChase, 1989) With Edward Vesala * ''Heavy Life'' (Leo, 1980) With
Mal Waldron Malcolm Earl "Mal" Waldron (August 16, 1925 – December 2, 2002) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. He started playing professionally in New York in 1950, after graduating from college. In the following dozen years or so Wa ...
*'' Up Popped the Devil'' (Enja, 1973) *'' Breaking New Ground'' (Baybridge 1983) *'' Mal Waldron Plays Eric Satie'' (Baybridge, 1983) *''
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'' (Paddle Wheel, 1983) *'' The Git Go - Live at the Village Vanguard'' (Soul Note, 1986) *'' The Seagulls of Kristiansund'' (Soul Note, 1986) *'' The Super Quartet Live at Sweet Basil'' (Paddle Wheel, 1987) *''
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'' (Soul Note, 1989) *'' Where Are You?'' (Soul Note, 1989) *'' My Dear Family'' (Evidence, 1993) *''Soul Eyes'' (BMG, 1997) With
Cedar Walton Cedar Anthony Walton Jr. (January 17, 1934 – August 19, 2013) was an American hard bop jazz pianist. He came to prominence as a member of drummer Art Blakey's band, The Jazz Messengers, before establishing a long career as a bandleader and c ...
*'' Soul Cycle'' (Prestige, 1969) With Tyrone Washington *'' Natural Essence'' (1967) With Richard Williams *'' New Horn in Town'' (Candid, 1960) With Frank Wright * ''Kevin, My Dear Son'' (Sun, 1979) With
Attila Zoller Attila Cornelius Zoller (June 13, 1927 – January 25, 1998) was a Hungarian jazz guitarist. After World War II, he escaped the Soviet takeover of Hungary by fleeing through the mountains on foot into Austria. In 1959, he moved to the United Sta ...
* ''Gypsy Cry'' (Embryo Records, 1970)


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External links


Reggie Workman's official website.The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music
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