Reggie Workman
American double bassistWikipedia
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Search complete. 12 mentions across 6 episodes found for "Reggie Workman".
Oct 7, 2026
LeoAUDIENCE
You know, growing up in Brooklyn, man, you know, I grew up doing music in Brooklyn.
LeoAUDIENCE
I used to take lessons from Reggie Workman.
LeoAUDIENCE
No, you didn't.
LeoAUDIENCE
The great bass player? You're kidding.
Greg CarrHOST
No, no. You're not going to get this anywhere else.
Greg CarrHOST
Leo, man, and thank you, brother, for years of culture and meaning making and doing that deep work, man, because the culture is the foundation for our politics and everything else.
Greg CarrHOST
You know, Barack, with you hanging out with Reggie Workman, man, you might have to write on that, brother.
Greg CarrHOST
I want to read about it.
T.S. MonkGUEST
It's me and four bass players.
T.S. MonkGUEST
Me, Reggie Workman, David Holland, Ron McClure, and
Steve BraunginnHOST
Larry Ridley.
Steve BraunginnHOST
Dave Holland playing with him? Yes.
Thelonious Monk IVGUEST
Okay, I guess.
T.S. MonkGUEST
These are cats that we were in the band.
T.S. MonkGUEST
I was in the band with Reggie Workman.
T.S. MonkGUEST
I was in the band with Ron McClure.
Miki YamanakaGUEST
Um, and they're, they're like, "Yeah, are you, do you have any, any ideas?" And I was like, "Oh, you know what? Just, like, I wanna add my friend Nicole Glover." Nicole is one of my best friends.
Miki YamanakaGUEST
Um, we bonded through, uh, legendary musician Reggie Workman's, like, young, young musician project, and we were the oldest of the young musician project.
Miki YamanakaGUEST
So, like, we were kinda like-
Bryan BeasleyHOST
[laughs]
Miki YamanakaGUEST
Yeah, it's like a-
Bryan BeasleyHOST
... artist jazz thing?
Miki YamanakaGUEST
Reggie Workman is a very historically amazing...
Miki YamanakaGUEST
He's still alive.
John ScheinfeldSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And it's at that time that he really turned his life around.
John ScheinfeldSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And as Reggie Workman, who played with him, says in the film, that's when he began to ascend.
John ScheinfeldSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
A number of people, a lot of musicians will look at substances and say, well, that's the way for me to get in touch with my creativity.
John ScheinfeldSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And I think what Coltrane shows us is that that's not true, that in fact, He could play better, he could write better, he could perform better when he was off
Cornel WestGUEST
You could hear it in his dignified sound.
Cornel WestGUEST
You could hear it with, when he's playing with Elvin Jones, another genius on the drums, or J- Jimmy Garrison or Reggie Workman.
Cornel WestGUEST
I was just with Brother Reggie a few weeks ago.
Cornel WestGUEST
He's still going in his late 80s.
Greg CarrHOST
We're listening there is John Coltrane on tenor saxophone, Steve Davis on bass, so Equinox from the album Coltrane Sound.
Greg CarrHOST
It's a little bit before you see Reggie Workman come in on the bass, but you hear... elvin jones on drums the great elvin jones so you're almost at the classic coltrane quartet that of course recorded among other things many other things my favorite things and on piano one of the the greatest uh philadelphia's own mccoy tyner mccoy tyner is a You know, another of my favorites is Song of the Underground Railroad, McCoy Tyner.
Greg CarrHOST
Man, what a force, the great McCoy Tyner.
Greg CarrHOST
Thank you.
Greg CarrHOST
The Africa Brass Sessions, that's the first take recorded in between May and June 1961.
Greg CarrHOST
That particular version on the double album is 16 minutes.
Greg CarrHOST
And as we can hear, that is Coltrane, McCoy Tyner again, Elvin Jones again on drums, and Reggie Workman on bass, the classic quartet.
Greg CarrHOST
And they are in this moment as we listen, we let it play just a little bit, but they are They're moving across the Africa Savannah.