DER US-AMERIKANISCHE JAZZ-BASSIST REGGIE JOHNSON IST IN BERN GESTORBEN

Der am 13. Dezember 1940 in Owensboro (Kentucky) geborene US-amerikanische Jazz-Bassist Reginald Volney «Reggie» Johnson (Bild) ist nach Angaben der Tageszeitung «Der Bund» in Bern gestorben. Er spielte mit Grössen wie Bill Barron, Marion Brown, Archie Shepp, Bill Dixon, Sun Ra, Burton Greene, Elvin Jones, Kenny Burrell, Sonny Rollins und Sarah Vaughan, mit den Jazz Messengers von Art Blakey ebenso wie mit den Crusaders. Eine Zeit lang war Reggie Johnson als Dozent an der Swiss Jazz School in Bern tätig.

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Der Jazz-Gigant, der Bern beehrte

Er hat wichtige Kapitel der Musikgeschichte geschrieben und als Teil der Black Avantgarde an so einigen Jazzrevolutionen mitgewirkt. Nun ist der seit 1985 in Bern ansässige Bassist Reggie Johnson im Alter von 79 Jahren gestorben.

Tom Gsteiger

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Der US-amerikanische Bassist Reggie Johnson hat als swingender Sideman auch das Schweizer Schaffen bereichert. Am Freitag ist er 79jährig gestorben.

https://www.srf.ch/audio/jazz-und-world-aktuell/die-langsamkeit-lieben-und-der-schweizer-musikpreis?id=11821536

Johnson was born in Owensboro, Kentucky. After playing trombone with school orchestras and army bands, he switched to double bass, and started working with musicians such as Bill Barron and recording with Archie Shepp in the mid-1960s, before joining Art Blakey’s band for a month-long residency at the Five Spot Café in December 1965, and then going on to The Lighthouse nightclub in Hermosa Beach, California, where they recorded the live album, Buttercorn Lady, at the beginning of 1966, with a line-up, comprising Blakey, Frank Mitchell, Chuck Mangione, Keith Jarrett, and Johnson.

He has also played and/or recorded with Bill Dixon, Sun Ra, and Burton Greene, Lonnie Liston Smith, Stanley Cowell, Bobby Hutcherson, Harold Land, Blue Mitchell, Walter Bishop Jr., Sonny Rollins, Sonny Stitt, Sarah Vaughan, Carmen McRae, Art Pepper, Kenny Burrell, Clark Terry, The Crusaders, Johnny Coles, and Frank Wess.

In the mid-1980s he moved to Europe, where he has worked with Johnny Griffin, Horace Parlan, Monty Alexander, Kenny Barron, Tom Harrell, Phil Woods, Cedar Walton, Alvin Queen, Jesse Davis, Freddie Redd and Clark Terry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reggie_Johnson_(musician)

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One of worlds greatest bass players that ever lived

Alvin Queen

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Audios / Videos:

Archie Shepp – The Girl from Ipanema, 1965

Archie Shepp – tenor saxophone, Ted Curson – trumpet, Joseph Orange – trombone, Marion Brown – alto saxophone, Reggie Johnson – double bass except track 3, Joe Chambers – drums except track 3, David Izenzon – double bass on track 3, J.C. Moses – drums on track 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WndSAVcoiHA

Bobby Hutcherson – Herzog, 1968

Bobby Hutcherson (Vibraphone), Harold Land (Tenor Saxophone and Flute), Chick Corea (Piano), Reggie Johnson (Bass), Joe Chambers (Drums)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6P4ckoHqlY&feature=emb_logo

Vladimir Maricic, Alvin Queen, Reggie Johnson – Whiskey Night In Duke’s Street

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW07MV5OYPE

Tete Montoliu Trio Andorra 1990

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q1TZcPD5s0&fbclid=IwAR3jACDYokG5AE5BK12Y6r4402hHzYIju__iR849n3o7te4zTPtEYFrpSuQ

Alvin Queen Trio BP Club Zagreb 2002_02 so what M.Davis

Vince Benedetti – piano, Reggie Johnson – bass, Alvin Queen – drums

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvKSMLHns9A

Joan Faulkner, Csík Gusztáv, Reggie Johnson – Summertime, 2013