Guitar:“Wednesday Funk”, “The harder we fight (the sweeter the love)”
Reggie and I met when Fred Wesley asked me to join his band in 2009 for some gigs in the Netherlands and France. I fell in love with his playing instantly. He’s an incredible rhythm guitar player, constantly working on finding the spaces and making it even more funky all the time, glueing it together, constantly working on that band sound. Ears wide open and playing what’s needed. When it’s time to solo, he rocks it! Within playing what I think is jazzy funk or funky jazz with Fred, he adds some blues to it.
During that tour I got to stand next to him and I heard every single note. I almost would have wanted to sit down in the audience and watch him play but I had even the honor to play WITH him. Then I saw a Bobby Byrd show on tv, Bobby Byrd I unfortunately never saw live. So there's this concert video and I thought.. hey, that guitar player really looks and sounds like Reggie, and yes, it was him! here's a feature (at around 16min)
And he also has been playing with The S.O.S. Band since many years, and especially the last years since they are touring again. Here's not my favourite version but at least he's visible and announced clearly:
Reggie Ward Facebook Page "Reggie Ward (born in Albany, living in Atlanta, Georgia) has played with and recorded with some of the top entertainers in the business. This includes The S.O.S.Band, the legendary organist Mr. Jimmy Smith, Charlie Wilson (Gap Band), Speech (Arrested Development), Fred Wesley, Dallas Auston, Sleepy Brown, Organize Noize, Chante Moore, Kenny Latimore, and Darryl Simmons."
Surprise, surprise, here it is: Susanne Alt - Royalty For Real recorded live at Pop & Jazz Hilversum on October 19th, 2024. Thank you Co de Koet, Marc Broer, Ziva Sound and Buma Cultuur for making this possible. Very happy with the way it sounds! Compliments for the engineers! The band line up: Susanne Alt (sax), Hans de Wild (keys), Thomas Pol (bass), Cyril Directie (drums) and Helene Jank (percussion).Are you familiar with Concertzender? Celebrating 40 years this year, being unique in its programming of classical, jazz, world, contemporary music of all kinds. Discover new and old, listen to music as you wish, choosing between the real time radio programming and the theme channels.. Also listen to World Of Jazz, the jazz channel of Concertzender. Enjoy!You can become a vriend of the radio station and contribute which is very welcome, since this station is only partly funded and wouldn't be possible without donations. - Guitar:“Wednesday Funk”, “The harder we fight (the sweeter the love)”Reggie and I met when Fred Wesley asked me to join his band in 2009 for some gigs in the Netherlands and France. I fell in love with his playing instantly. He’s an incredible rhythm guitar player, constantly working on finding the spaces and making it even more funky all the time, glueing it together, constantly working on that band sound. Ears wide open and playing what’s needed. When it’s time to solo, he rocks it! Within playing what I think is jazzy funk or funky jazz with Fred, he adds some blues to it. During that tour I got to stand next to him and I heard every single note. I almost would have wanted to sit down in the audience and watch him play but I had even the honor to play WITH him.Then I saw a Bobby Byrd show on tv, Bobby Byrd I unfortunately never saw live. So there's this concert video and I thought.. hey, that guitar player really looks and sounds like Reggie, and yes, it was him! here's a feature (at around 16min)And he also has been playing with The S.O.S. Band since many years, and especially the last years since they are touring again.Here's not my favourite version but at least he's visible and announced clearly:Reggie Ward Facebook PageReggie Ward (born in Albany, living in Atlanta, Georgia) has played with and recorded with some of the top entertainers in the business. This includes The S.O.S.Band, the legendary organist Mr. Jimmy Smith, Charlie Wilson (Gap Band), Speech (Arrested Development), Fred Wesley, Dallas Auston, Sleepy Brown, Organize Noize, Chante Moore, Kenny Latimore, and Darryl Simmons.
