Ron Reid

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Ron Reid is a bassist composer, arranger steel drummer and a Professor of Contemporary Writing at Berklee College in Boston.

Ron Reid is a bassist composer, arranger steel drummer. He is also a Professor of Contemporary Writing and Production at Berklee College of Music, where he teaches arranging, music history, ensemble and steel pan performance. He began his professional career in 1978 as a bassist for the late Lord Kitchener’s Calypso Revue in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and has recorded and performed with a cavalcade of major calypso, soca and steelpan artists including the Mighty Shadow, Sparrow, Superior, Relator, David Rudder, Ella Andall, Len Boogsie Sharpe, Robert Greenidge and Andre Tanker. Ron has recorded with Boston-based groups Myanna, Sonabo, the Imagine Orchestra and Grace Kelly, among many others. He has also performed with jazz artists Randy Weston, Carmen Lundy, Luciana Souza, Dave Samuels’ Caribbean Jazz Project, Caribbo—w/Andy Narell and Harvey Wirht and Antonio Hart. Ron Reid is featured as a leader on three critically acclaimed recordings: Calypsoldier, Reid, Wright and be Happy with bassist David Williams and Precious Metals. Reid’s Sunsteel ensemble, plays an eclectic fusion of Trinidad folk, jazz and afro-cuban melodies. His Liberty Afrotet which he steers as composer/bassist further explores his afro-diasporic inclinations in quintet and octet formats.