Steve Reid

"Improvisation is not a militant stance": An Interview with Kieran Hebden 03/15/2007

Steve Reid picked up drumming at age 16 and in the same period his family moved to Queens, NYC, three blocks away from John Coltrane. This was the early sixties which was a peak for Coltrane but also for the jazz scene in NYC. Before going to college, he worked at the Apollo Theatre, as a musician obviously, under the direction of Quincy Jones. He then graduated at Adelphi University in Garden ...more