Tune in to Out to Lunch today, May 26, from 1:30-3:00 PM ET for an interview with bassist and free jazzer Reggie Workman, who will discuss his upcoming performance with Trio 3 at the Vision 22 Free Jazz Festival in New York on May 30th.
Workman has performed and recorded with giants of jazz including John Coltrane, Art Blakey, Eric Dolphy, Max Roach, Abbey Lincoln, Cecil Taylor, Mal Waldron, Archie Shepp, Sam Rivers, Trio 3 and Great Friends as well as emerging jazz legends like Jason Moran. Workman’s playing styles cover the range of modern music from Bop to Post-Bop, to Futuristic, incorporating a contemporary approach to jazz improvisation and composition. His uncanny ability to equally understand and share musical ideals with such diverse musicians as Art Blakey and Cecil Taylor. As a result, Workman has invented his own language of sound and expression as a performer and composer.
An ardent advocate of arts education, Workman is a Professor and Coordinator of Curriculum at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Studies. He co-founded the historic Collective Black Artists (CBA), and was Music Director of the famous New Muse Community Center (Brooklyn, NY). He is presently Co-Director of The Montclair Academy of Dance & Laboratory of Music Studio and Founder/Producer of the Sculptured Sounds Music Festival, an artist-driven festival of futuristic music and concepts.
