Waymon Reed

Waymon Reed (born January 10, 1940 in Fayetteville , North Carolina , † November 25, 1983 in Nashville , Tennessee ) was an American jazz trumpeter .

Live and act

Reed grew up in Nashville and played in school bands. He attended the Eastman School of Music and then played rhythm and blues and in carnival bands; first he worked with Ira Sullivan and Pee Wee Ellis in Miami and had his own band there. From 1965 to 1969 he was a member of James Brown's soul band , was briefly a freelancer in New York and was a member of the Count Basie Orchestra from 1969 to 1973 . Then he was in big bands by Frank Foster (recordings in 1975) and the Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Big Band (1975/76) and again with Basie in 1977/78. In 1977 he had his own bop quintet. From 1978 until the divorce in 1981 he was married to Sarah Vaughn , whom he also accompanied (soloist in her quartet and orchestra conductor). In 1983 he died of cancer.

He recorded an album as a leader: 46th And 8th (Artists House 1977, Liner Notes Stanley Dance), with Tommy Flanagan on piano and Jimmy Forrest on tenor saxophone and Bobby Durham on drums.

He is one of the trumpeter on the hit James Brown It's a Man's Man's Man's World by 1966. In 1981, he was on There Must Be a Better World from BB King to hear. Other recordings were made with Al Gray ( Struttin 'and Shoutin' , recorded 1976, published 1983) and Eddie Jefferson ( Still on the Planet 1976).

literature

• Barry Kernfeld: Reed, Waymon in: Barry Kernfeld (Ed.): New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, Macmillan 1994

Web links

• Waymon Reed at Allmusic (English)