Reggie Workman

Reggie Workman is an American double bassist, born in Philadelphia in 1937, who played with John Coltrane and Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers in the early 1960s and has worked across hard bop and free jazz ever since. He is also a composer and a longtime teacher at The New School in New York, and was named an NEA Jazz Master in 2020. Workman joined the Coltrane Quartet in 1961, appearing on the Village Vanguard sessions and Olé Coltrane, then spent 1962-1964 with Blakey, recording Ugetsu and Free for All.