Died On This Date (April 13, 2010) Steve Reid / Notable Jazz Drummer
Steve Reid
January 29, 1944 – April 13, 2010
Steve Reid was an accomplished jazz drummer who, over the course of a long career played with the likes of Miles Davis, Sun Ra, James Brown, and Ornette Coleman. He also served as a house drummer for Motown. Reid was still a teenager when he started drumming, and by the time he went off to college, he had already worked in the house band at the Apollo Theater. Reid released several albums under his own name including those he self-distributed on his own label. During the 2000s, Reid performed with electronic wiz, Kieran Hebden, also known as Four Tet. Steve Reid passed away on April 13, 2010 at the age of 66.
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