Steve Reid

LIMITED EDITION RED VINYL

As a radical jazz artist, Steve Reid played with an extraordinary group of artists - Miles Davis, Sun Ra, Fela Kuti, James Brown, Ornette Coleman, Lester Bowie and many more. He began his career as a teenager in the 1960s as a drummer at Motown. Reid was born in the South Bronx, and grew up in Queens, New York, three blocks away from John Coltrane. In 1969, Reid refused to enlist to the Vietnam war and was arrested as a conscientious objector and given a four-year prison sentence.

On his release in 1974, he formed the Legendary Master Brotherhood and the independent record label, Mustevic Sound, to release his debut LP Nova. At the start of the 21st century, Steve Reid began a successful collaboration with Kieran Hebden (Fourtet), who Reid referred to as his 'musical soul mate', resulting in a number of joint albums.

PERSONNEL:

• STEVE REID, drums
• AHMED ABDULLAH, trumpet
• LUIS ANGEL FALCON, acoustic bass
• JOE RIGBY, soprano, alto & tenor sax
• LES WALKER, piano, organ
• RICHARD WILLIAMS, bass

Recorded in New York, March 23, 1976.

TRACKS:

• SIDE A:
• 01. Nova
• 02. Lions Of Juda
• 03. Free Spirits - Unknown

• SIDE B:
• 01. Long Time Black
• 02. Sixth House