Member Since: 6/24/2006
Band Website: reddymusic.com/
Band Members: 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
Some of the musicians that have performed and/or recorded Reddy's Music -----
Jef Lee Johnson, Dom Richards, Pheeroan akLaff, Reggie Workman, Brandon Ross, EJ Allen, Josh Roseman, Charlie Burnham, Guillermo E. Brown, Mino Cinelu, Michael Cain, Mark Taylor, Rufus Cappadocia, Jon Margulies, JT Lewis, Hearn Gadbois, Mauro Refosco, Tim Otto, Calvin Weston, David Gilmore, John Carlson, David Fiuczynski, Vincent Chancey, Tom Rainey, Mary Wooten, Bob Scarpulla, Charles Baldwin, Jerome Harris, Steven Bernstein, Melvin Gibbs, Ravi Best, Pete Drungle, Reggie Nicholson, Alfred Petterson, Rasul Siddik, Gerry Hemmingway, Gene Lake, Douglas Yates, Shahzad Ismaily, Avram Feffer, Craig Rivers, Steve Blum, Lisa Parrott, Oscar Noriega, Steve Elson, Cochemea Gastelum, Lis Rubard, Curtis Hasselbring, Sarah Bernstein, Marlene Rice, Tomas Fujiwara..
Influences: The musicians who play my music, Ornette Coleman, Sidney Bechet, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Henry Threadgill, Ronald Shannon Jackson, Charles Ives, Wayne Shorter, Oliver Lake, Albert Ayler, Louis Armstrong, Aaron Copland, Miles Davis, Stevie Wonder, Muhal Richard Abrams, Igor Stravinsky, Reggie Workman, Thelonius Monk, Alan Hovhanness, John Coltrane, Arthur Blythe, Jimi Hendrix, John Adams, Keith Jarrett, Lester Bowie, Joni Mitchell, Charlie Haden, Frank Zappa, Bjork, Makanda Ken McIntyre, Herbie Hancock, Steve Reich, Eric Dolphy, Gil Evans, Julius Hemphill, Sly Stone, Sun Ra, Cecil Taylor, Staple Singers, Jaco Pastorius, Carla Bley, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Ranny Reeve, Bill Dixon, Giya Kancheli, Lou Harrison, Bela Bartok, Sonny Rollins, The Beatles, Chick Corea, Thomas A. Dorsey, Dave Liebman, Butch Morris, Chris Whitley, Olivier Messiaen, lots of Music recorded by Alan Lomax, Arvo Part, Steve Lacy, Brian Eno, Henryk Gorecki, Charles Lloyd, Leos Janacek, Alex Bradford, Henry Cowell, Terry Riley, John Philip Sousa, Witold Lutoslawski.....Sam Harris, William Carlos Williams, Milan Kundera, Richard Dawkins, Octavio Paz, Ralph Ellison, Noam Chomsky, Tomas Transtromer, Samuel Beckett, Anne Carson, Herman Hesse, Langston Hughes, Gore Vidal, Walt Whitman, Thomas Paine..
Sounds Like: Rob Reddy follows his own muse and is not conventional by any means. More interested in sonorities than in straightforward Jazz, Reddy is uncompromising and yet humble, the totality of the concepts more important than individualism. Listeners who enjoy Jazz out of the mainstream would do well to check out Reddys merging of musical expression with religious feeling.
--Don Williamson, 52nd Street Reviews
Record Label: Reddy Music
Type of Label: Indie