Damion Reid

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Damion Reid (2016 in Mark Turner's quartet )

Damion Reid (born June 16, 1979 in West Covina ) is an American jazz musician ( drums ).

Live and act

Reid, whose mother is an opera singer and whose father is a bass player, made church music as a child; from the age of twelve he received lessons from Billy Higgins . After graduating from high school, he first studied at the New England Conservatory of Music with Bob Moses , Danilo Pérez , Fred Buda and George Garzone , from 1999 at the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz at the University of Southern California , before continuing his studies at The New School in Complete New York City.

Reid soon belonged to Robert Hurst's band and played with Robert Glasper , who brought him into his trio. The group's fourth album, Covered, (Blue Note 2015), received a Grammy nomination. Reid further member of the band The Five Elements of Steve Coleman and worked in the district with Greg Osby , Cassandra Wilson , Jacky Terrasson and Ravi Coltrane . Criticism has highlighted his “controlled anger” but also his complex game.

He was also in Greg Ward's Phonic Juggernaut , the Steve Lehman Trio and Steve Lehman & Sélébéyone, various projects by the guitarist Miles Okazaki as well as in the band Apex by Rudresh Mahanthappa and Bunky Green and in the project Dual Identity by Steve Lehman and Rudresh Mahanthappa. He can also be heard on albums by Jonathan Finlayson ( Moment and the Message ), Laurent Coq ( Like a Tree in the City ), Liberty Ellman ( Radiate ), Lucian Ban / Alex Harding and Jure Pukl . He also worked with musicians such as Terence Blanchard , Bruce Hornsby , Reggie Workman , Marcus Belgrave , Lauryn Hill , Angie Stone , Angélique Kidjo , Meshell Ndegeocello , Jason Moran , Mark Shim , Dianne Reeves , Marko Churnchetz , Liberty Ellman ( Last Desert , 2020) and Mark Turner.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nate Chinen: A Pianist Accessible but Opaque . In: The New York Times , November 3, 2005. Retrieved June 13, 2017. 
  2. ↑ Ben Ratliff: From Different Generations but on the Same Page . In: The New York Times , April 21, 2010. Retrieved June 13, 2017. 
  3. ^ Nate Chinen: Summoning the Spirit (and Bands) of Nightclubs Past . In: The New York Times , May 10, 2012. Retrieved June 13, 2017. 
  4. ↑ Nate Chinen: A Flamenco-Playing Sitar and an Asymmetrical Groove . In: The New York Times , March 23, 2012. Retrieved June 13, 2017. 
  5. ^ Ecstatic Music Festival: Steve Lehman & Sélébéyone . March 27, 2017. Retrieved June 26, 2019.
  6. ↑ Ben Ratliff: From Different Generations but on the Same Page . In: The New York Times , April 21, 2010. Retrieved June 13, 2017. 
personal data
SURNAME Reid, Damion
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (drums)
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH West Covina