Steve Reid obituary

US jazz drummer whose work ranged from Motown to electronicaA typical audience for that uncompromising idiom known as free jazz might be 60 people swaying respectfully in a small room. In April 2006, the Scala club in King's Cross, central London, housed closer to 1,000 people, many of them teen- agers, for an unusual kind of free-jazz performance by a duo comprising the young electronica artist Kieran Hebden, aka Four Tet, and the then 62-year-old American jazz drummer Steve Reid.Reid, who ha...

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