Rob Reddy
Since forming his first ensemble in 1989 featuring legendary bassist Reggie Workman and drummer Pheeroan akLaff, Reddy has worked almost exclusively as a leader, with the exception of brief stints with Workman's ensemble and Ronald Shannon Jackson's Decoding Society.
He founded the Reddy Music label in 2006, and released “A Hundred Jumping Devils,” which earned him a Chamber Music America commission. His second release, “The Book of the Storm,” featured an all-star 19-piece ensemble performing the hour-long title piece, commissioned by NYSCA and the Jerome Foundation, at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center. Reddy has also been awarded commissions and grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, the American Composers Forum, Meet the Composer, Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, the American Music Center and received two residencies at TPAC.
His seventh recording, “Bechet: Our Contemporary,” was released on September 11, 2015. The recording of the album is the subject of a full-length documentary by filmmaker David Castillo. Reddy used Sidney Bechet's original compositions as a point of departure to create this work, intertwining four Bechet compositions with four of his own. Reddy sees this project as an honest and respectful attempt at honoring Bechet’s place in history as a seriously forward-thinking, avant-garde artist of his time, while also putting his work into conversation with our own, present-day sociopolitical landscape.
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- Citizen Quintet by Alberto Bazzurro
- Bechet: Our Contemporary by Alberto Bazzurro
- Bechet: Our Contemporary by Glenn Astarita
- Bechet: Our Contemporary by Troy Collins
- The Book of the Storm by Donald Elfman
- The Book of the Storm by Nic Jones
- The Book of the Storm by Jerry D'Souza
- The Book of the Storm by Troy Collins
- A Hundred Jumping Devils by Elliott Simon
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—Howard Mandel, Jazziz
...Reddy’s is an adventure that benefits fans of any jazz era.
—Andrew Bartlett, Amazon.com
“Rob Reddy’s music is truly American: confident without being arrogant, brash but not swaggering and celebratory to the point of boisterousness and joyous unrestraint.
—Allen Huotari, All About Jazz
Since the early 1990s, Rob Reddy has been forging a way uniquely his own as a jazz composer, saxophone player and bandleader in New York.”
—Harry Newman, Downtown Express
“Reddy understands the link between rhythm and song as well as any younger composer in the wake of Henry Threadgill...
—Leone Evangelista, All About Jazz
“...Reddy sounds, and dares to sound, like no one but himself.
—Brian Morton, Jazz Review
“...Reddy has assembled a fine cast of players, each with an uncommon ability to evoke a broad range of images as they interpret these beautifully complex compositions.
—Elliott Simon, AllAboutJazz
“Released last year, A Hundred Jumping Devils projects a number of the qualities that distinguish Mr. Reddy's best music: stealthy propulsion, sturdy lyricism and a sound that reconciles classical harmony with folk rusticity
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