Jazz Articles about Reggie Washington

Reggie Washington: A Lot of Love, Live! (My Trios)

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 10, 2007

A Lot of Love, Live! testimonia due differenti esibizioni live in quel di Bruxelles di due inediti trii del bassista Reggie Washington. Nella registrazione del marzo 2006 troviamo il 'trio americano' con Ravi Coltrane al sax tenore e Gene Lake alla batteria, in quella datata ottobre 2005 sono invece gli europei Erwin Vann e Stephane Galland ad affiancare l’eclettico bassista già membro di formazioni blasonate quali i Five Elements di Steve Coleman ed il quartetto di Oliver Lake Ad un ...

Reggie Washington: A Lot Of Love, Live!

by John Kelman
January 7, 2007

With artists like Norway's In the Country and Sweden's EST reinventing the contemporary piano trio, it's no surprise to hear Reggie Washington turn the traditional sax/bass/drums trio on its side. Washington, a long-time collaborator with M-Base artists past and present, including Steve Coleman, Cassandra Wilson and Andy Milne, manages to both respect tradition and reinvigorate it on A Lot of Love, Live!.

Saxophone trios tend to be either mainstream affairs which maintain harmonic movement through implication, or freewheeling efforts with ...

Reggie Washington: A Lot Of Love, Live!

by Nic Jones
November 6, 2006

Reggie Washington leads two trios here, and among the few things they have in common are a common instrumental lineup and the fact that they both serve up ample evidence of how much life there is left in the free-bop continuum. Washington also serves notice of how musical strands from outside the jazz tradition can be utilised in the service of music that exists beneath its umbrella.

Thus the fatback funk of “Reuben's 2 Train" allows tenor player Ravi Coltrane ...