Rayse Biggs

Rayse Biggs (* in Detroit ) is an American jazz and studio musician ( trumpet , flugelhorn , keyboards ) and arranger , who also worked as a music producer and sound engineer .

Biggs graduated from Oakland University and worked a. a. with Geri Allen ( In the Middle , 1987), Roy Brooks , Freddie Hubbard , Lew Tabackin , Dizzy Gillespie , Lou Rawls , BB King and Sonny Fortune and as a studio musician with Was (Not Was) , Bob Dylan ( Under the Red Sky , 1990 ), Martha Reeves and Patti Smith . With a grant from the Detroit Council of Arts , he held workshops and concerts in Detroit public schools. In 1997 Biggs released the album Mr. B & Friends , followed by For the Love of It (2006). In 1987 he produced the album Urban Griots for the Michigan Jazz Masters , and he also worked for Mary Wynn and Russell Green.

Discographic notes

• Roy Brooks And The Artistic Truth - Live at the Montreaux / Detroit Jazz Festival, 1983 (Sagittarius A-Star, ed. 2012)
• Wendell Harrison : Live in Concert (1992)

Web links

• Web presence
• Rayse Biggs at Discogs (English)
• Rayse Biggs at Allmusic (English)