Mike Reed

Mike Reed (* 1974 in Bielefeld ) is an American jazz - drummer , bandleader , composer and music organizer.

Live and act

Reed grew up in Evanston, Illinois ; in nearby Chicago he played in the local jazz scene with the bands Treehouse Project, David Boykin Expanse , Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Orchestra , Fred Anderson and the Josh Berman Quartet. He led the groups Loose Assembly and Mike Reed's People, Places & Things with whom he recorded a number of albums on the 482 Music label . In 2010 he recorded the album Empathetic Paths with guest soloist Roscoe Mitchell .

In 2001 he founded the non-profit Emerging Improvisers Organization , which sponsors regular jazz and improvisation concerts in Chicago; he also worked for the Umbrella Music organization . In 2009 he became vice chairman of the AACM . He was involved in the planning of the Chicago Jazz Festival , the Downtown Sound concert series in Millennium Park. Reed is the director of the Pitchfork Music Festival , which attracted over 50,000 people to Chicago with its three-day program of pop and rock musicians.

Awards

Reed was named Chicagoan of the Year for Jazz by the Chicago Tribune in 2008 ; the Downbeat Critics poll voted him a Rising Jazz Star , his band People, Places & Things a Rising Jazz Group .

Discographic notes

• 2006 - In the Context of
• 2007 - Last Year's Ghost
• 2008 - proliferation
• 2008 - The Speed ​​of Change
• 2009 - About Us
• 2010 - Empathetic Parts , with Roscoe Michell
• 2010 - Stories and Negotiations
• 2012 - Clean on the Corner
• 2015 - A New Kind of Dance , with Greg Ward, Tim Haldeman, Jason Roebke, Marquis Hill , Matthew Shipp
• 2017 - Flesh & Bone , with Greg Ward , Tim Haldeman , Jason Roebke , Ben LaMar Gay , Jason Stein , Marvin Tate

Web links

• Reeds website
• Mike Reed at Allmusic (English)
• Mike Reed at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ chapter Mike Reed at AACM 45th Anniversary Festival ( Memento of the original from May 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.